Live More. Struggle Less.
You can change the pain experience
Understand painThe path to recovery starts with education.
Pain is an experience with biological, psychological, and social factors, not just a number on the pain scale. Just treating chronic pain biomedically with pills, injections, and surgery isn't enough. We need to treat the whole person with a multidisciplinary pain management approach using the biopsychosocial model as the standard of care. |
Accept painIt’s often the struggle with chronic pain that’s the worst part of having pain, not the pain itself.
The struggle makes it easy to become distressed and feel like a victim. To minimize the struggle, it’s helpful to come to terms with the pain as our “new normal” – accepting the pain as a part of life with no immediate magical cure. |
Change painIt’s easy to become preoccupied with chronic pain. To feel distressed, to give up, and become a victim just based on how much attention we give it.
We can change pain by changing how we think, feel, and behave around pain so we're not so worried about it, including strategies and skills to actively self-manage the pain Recovery is possible. The pain experience can change, even go away. If it doesn't, we can live well despite the pain. |
Read my published articles. Hear my story.
- How to Move Patients from Passive Management to Active Self-Management
- A Letter to Pain Providers: 10 Do and Don’t Tips from a Chronic Pain Patient
- We Have a Chronic Pain Problem, Not a Prescription Opioid Problem
- Are You Missing Two-Thirds of Your Potential Pain Treatment Plan?
- Five things I wish I knew earlier in my journey with chronic pain
- Hopping Off the Pain Merry-go-round
- My Time at the Mayo Clinic Pain Rehabilitation Center
- Stop Whining and More No-Nonsense Tips from a Chronic Pain Champion
- 25 Tips to Get the Best Treatment
- Tinnitus: Part of a Larger Puzzle and Challenge
- Living With Chronic Pain: ‘Suffering Is a Choice, and I Choose Not to Suffer’ (GoodRX article about my experience)
- Compass Opioid Stewardship interview - Learning to Champion Chronic Pain (Podcast episode hosted by Don Stader, MD, and Rachael Duncan, PharmD)
- Modern Pain Care interview (Podcast episode hosted by Mark Kargela, DPT)
Take Control
Imagine being in a car with your chronic pain. Where is the pain?
Is pain behind the steering wheel - determining where you go and what you do?
Or are you driving?
You can change the pain experience
by taking control.
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