The fixer mindset must go away! The concept of FIXING someone’s pain with massage or manual treatments is an outdated idea which lacks scientific support. More importantly, ask anyone who lives with persistent pain and they will tell you that the search for a fix only served to keep them feeling vulnerable, broken, and a loss of self. If someone’s pain could…
The chances are you will have experienced an episode of low back pain at least once in your life. You’ve probably experienced it many times. Low back pain is one of the most normal things a human can experience. It’s estimated in some studies that over 80% of people will get an episode of back pain at least once every…
The objectives for rehabilitation in musculoskeletal medicine is to restore a patient to their former capacity by therapeutic means or to improve physical function so they can return to meaningful and constructive activity. For acute pain management with moderate limitations to functional activity, a therapist can follow a relatively linear process of assessing for any major health concerns and then…
Thanks to Jocelyn Kirton RMT for her following article. Jocelyn is an RMT currently based in Surrey, BC at ClaytonCrossingRMT.com and has a practice focused on treating pelvic and abdominal pain. She is the first guest author for ericpurves.com Chronic Pelvic Pain Imagine experiencing pain in the most intimate of areas. The narrow variety of treatment options available yields increasingly frustrating results…
