Jony Sena

With many now working from home, how can we keep well? This post was first found on Specialist Pain Physio I often coach people suffering pain who have to think about their working life. The approach uses the working day as part of the way a person can overcome pain by creating a plan and a structure to follow each day. Within this we build skills of being well as they work towards recovery and a better life. Here are some of the common practices, which maybe useful at a time when people are unexpectedly having to work from home. Many will have some kind of set up, but there will be those who are not prepared. Some will have to share kitchen tables with other members of the household or create a space in the bedroom. Whatever the scenario, there are a few things to consider. Here are 5 tips: 1. Keep the routine To remain focused and in a work mode, you can choose to get up at the normal time that you would if you were going to the office or workplace. Maintaining this crea...

Part 1 is available here . Something deep in me (and many of you) has driven pursuit of knowledge, yet with every new thing I learn, there is this underlying feeling, urge, that recognizes the available pieces do not fit together in a meaningful way and that simply pursuing more knowledge mindlessly is, to some extent, a dead-end road. Given enough time, anyone who has extensively explored movement and pain science would also start to feel the urge to look for new knowledge to serve as another patch and to provide another fix toward our insatiable addiction to gain more and more knowledge that might once again temporarily satisfy us. Unfortunately, this process can lead to endlessly spinning of cognitive wheels in new territories with little reward of fulfillment after spending enough time there. Some just give up and call it “good enough,” make do with their knowledge base and do what they can with it and feel their clients will either get what they’re giving them or not. Many oth...

The use of patient-rated outcome measures (PROM), often in the form of questionnaires, is a key part of our evaluation and re-evaluation. They play an important role in documenting activity limitations, levels of disability, quality of life, response to interventions and they help provide a quantifiable measure of subjective complaints. As our knowledge of chronic pain broadens, we are beginning to appreciate that there are modifiable risk factors that contribute to the development of long term pain and disability . For example, fear avoidance beliefs and behaviours, fear of movement, high levels of anxiety and depression, low satisfaction with work and catastrophization beliefs. Several outcome measures are currently available to clinicians to help guide their clinical reasoning by identifying these risk factors and dig deeper into how they play a part in the patient’s pain presentation. The purpose of this blog is to look specifically at outcome measures and explore how they...

With many now working from home, how can we keep well? This post was first found on Specialist Pain Physio I often coach people suffering pain who have to think about their working life. The approach uses the working day as part of the way a person can overcome pain by creating a plan and a structure to follow each day. Within this we build skills of being well as they work towards recovery and a better life. Here are some of the common practices, which maybe useful at a time when people are unexpectedly having to work from home. Many will have some kind of set up, but there will be those who are not prepared. Some will have to share kitchen tables with other members of the household or create a space in the bedroom. Whatever the scenario, there are a few things to consider. Here are 5 tips: 1. Keep the routine To remain focused and in a work mode, you can choose to get up at the normal time that you would if you were going to the office or workplace. Maintaining this crea...