PT pain homework

[sasha_feather]

I have PT homework that involves learning about some pain research.

Why Things Hurt - Lorimer Moseley (14 min Tedx Talk)
Understanding Pain in less than 5 minutes (whiteboard by PainAustraila)
www.pain-ed.com

Read section one of "Explain Pain" by David Butler and Lorimer Moseley (done)


What I struggle with here is a) the feeling of being talked down to, and b) Feeling like being told that pain is your fault. When in reality we don't actually know that much about it from a scientific perspective.

Comments

[longwhitecoats]

Urgh. Yeah, that doesn't sound constructive at all. Did you get anything out of it otherwise?

[alatefeline]

Grrr. If you know of better resources, you can consider writing a summary with links and sending that to the person assigning homework. But I think it's really freaking problematic that you've got this sort of homework at all. You are right to suspect that this is an attempt at patronizing and blame-shifting.

[worlds_of_smoke]

Wow, that's... super patronizing. Because, hi, if you're in PT, you know about pain and forcing you to listen to advice you probably have already attempted or know you can't attempt is really condescending and an asshole-ish move.

[davidgillon]

Ugh. What we do know about chronic pain expressly says it isn't your fault. How you feel about it can influence its effects, but it can't turn it on or off.

And PTs seem particularly bad at this.