Skills Sessions: Myths of Chronic Pain

Pain when you move means you are doing harm...

Pain means damage or injury is a common belief.

If this is the belief, you are not going to move the same way.

It will be protective and guarded and tense.

This reinforces the protectiveness because of the sense data created by those very moments.

The sense data can provide further reliable evidence for the need to protect.

Pain means you are doing harm — m…