When stress increases your symptoms & pain makes you stressed

Stress and pain are collective experiences. One of my favorite quotes on pain is from Dr. Adriaan Louw, “Pain isn’t a protocol. Pain is a human lived experience.” As a physical therapist it is common to hear a patient speak on how their pain increases during stressful moments or experiences. Increased pain can lead to […]

Key factors in back pain resilience

“A paradigm shift from a tissue- and disease-based approach towards individually tailored multimodal lifestyle interventions should lead to improved outcomes and decrease the psychological and socioeconomic burden of chronic pain.” –Joe Nijs   Lifestyle factors play a vital role in back pain recovery. Too often education surrounding back pain is about the negative factors affecting […]

My thoughts on the greatest gift of Christmas

“God’s presence is always the gift you don’t know you need most until you’re in the most need.” Ann Voskamp Matthew 1:18-25 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ[a] took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed[b] to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the […]