#PainRehab

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What's the difference between a service dog, therapy dog, and emotional support dog?

Dogs and other pets can be immensely helpful for folks living with chronic pain or other serious conditions like anxiety and depression. Dogs with ’emotional support’ vests are appearing in classrooms across the country. People have tried to bring peacocks on board planes as support animals. My dog and I are just beginning our training as a therapy dog team, and our trainer said the most common…

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#Painrehab of #poverty

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Thursday I started the 3 weeks pain rehab program in hopes that I will be able to function a little better with all my symptoms! #pots #posturalorthostatictachycardiasyndrome #dysautonomia #chronicpain #chronicillness #chronicfatigue #chronicillnesss #invisibleillness #invisibledisease #mayoclinic #jacksonvillefl #painrehab #pain #spoonie #spoonies #spoonielife #spooniestrong #spoonieprobs #rehab #gastroparesis #seizure #migraine #prc #fighter #anxiety #autoimmunedisease #sick #potsie (at Mayo Clinic Hospital)

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Donnie working on Dale today to relieve some stubborn neck/back pain. Using the #stepchild for pinpoint tissue diffusion. @thompsonfatpad #tissuediffusion #painrehab

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Brain fog? Try humming it out.

Humming stimulates the vagus nerve and can help reduce brain fog and stress.

Brain fog. You can’t think well and have trouble focusing. During my recent bout of COVID, the first sign was that I could not think well and felt like I was slogging through mud. Brain fog is a common part of pain, stress, anxiety, and exhaustion. Jim Donovan recommends this simple technique for reducing fog and restoring focus. It works by vibrating your throat and stimulating the vagus…

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Programs to Treat Children in Pain

An updated list of resources and 100 programs that treat childhood pain.

Tonya Palermo is an outstanding researcher and practitioner working with children in pain. She wrote a terrific workbook that is essentially a pain rehab program in a book – Managing Your Child’s Chronic Pain. Working with the International Association for the Study of Pain’s Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood, she maintains a list of resources for academics (which I think are great for…

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Cyles of Five: Another Way To Disrupt Anxiety

Cycles of 5 is a simple technique to disrupt immediate pain or anxiety.

When you are overwhelmed with pain or anxiety, you perceive THREAT. That’s a healthy response. The amygdala is the part of your brain that processes emotions. When it perceives threat, it responded by triggering the production of cortisol and other hormones that trigger a flight or fight response. Your heart beats faster, your stomach and intestines stop digesting food. You become hyper-aware of…

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Five Finger Breathing

Stress and anxiety make pain harder to cope with. This simple technique uses no tech and no equipment. Just use a finger and a hand to help you time and slow down your breathing. Focusing on the touch can make it easier to focus on breathing. You can repeat this exercise as often as needed. While you relax, notice points of tension. I often notice I’ve been tensing my jaw and shoulders.…

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Pain Is In Your Head. It's Still Real

Pain is a lot more than a rote response to bodily harm. The bio-psycho-social model of pain provides multiple points to attack and interfere with the pain process.

Pain is invisible. That means any time, any place, someone can just kick you in the stomach by telling you that your pain is ‘all in your head’. That’s why it is so important for the people we love to believe us when we describe what we feel and it’s why we so value medical professionals who listen and take us at our word. Nonetheless, the truth is, pain IS in your head. So is everything else…

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Beating yourself up about parenting?

It's tough when your child is always in pain. And it takes TIME. Don't beat yourself up. Focus on the things that are most important to your child. Love. Routines. High standards.

I have studied parenting on five continents for close to four decades. I’m also a mom — the mom of two sons, one of them who is very sick. I know what it is to beat yourself up about not being a perfect parent.  But too many parents beat themselves because they are trying to meet two entirely different, incompatible, and unrealistic standards. Most parents – and I’m going to focus on mothers…

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NYTimes Says There's Never Been A Better Time To Have a Headache

A NY Times article argues there has never been a better time to suffer from headaches. We are finally getting taken seriously.

Sunday’s NY times published a front-page article on headache. It talked about the decades (centuries) of neglect of headache disorders – a disease identified as one of the most disabling diseases in the world today. It talks about the FINALLY rising awareness of the seriousness of these diseases.It talks about new headache treatments – CGRP – and our new understanding of migraine as a…

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The 1step2life Podcast

Follow 1step2life on five major podcasting platforms. A podcast for people living with chronic pain and parents of children in pain.

1step2life: For those living with chronic pain and the people who love them. Honest talk for people living with persistent pain, chronic illness long COVID or other complex medical conditions. Dr. Nancy Darling is a psychologist who studies adolescent parenting and the mom of a son with severe chronic migraines. Living with chronic pain or illness shrinks your world, limits your social life,…

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Podcast: Parenting a Child With Migraine

Dr. Nancy Darling talks about her experiences as a mom when her son was suddenly overwhelmed with pain from severe chronic migraine. Her work as a psychologist led to the development of the 1step2life app for children in pain and their their parents.

I am so honored to be interviewed for the Living With An Invisible Injury podcast.  Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XKewmmW7AAKnQ2sVxWVWP?si=JyFZgMQLTYKGzPSpYJ5ouA&dl_branch=1 Interested? Follow us! Subscribe Check out the 1step2life app! Start where you are. Set your own goals. Take back your life. A tool for tracking goals, emotions, and success, not just logging pain. And…

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Supporting Parent of Kids In Pain

Parenting children & teens living with chronic pain is tough. Caregiver Mode is unique to 1step2life. It supports effective coaching so parents can help their children while building & maintain healthy relationships.

I’m reading a book called The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig. It’s a fantasy – a parable really – about regret and depression and building a better life. Sounds odd for a book I picked because it was billed as ‘a feel good novel’ about a life well lived, doesn’t it? Did I mention that the main character’s cat dies in chapter 2? And she committs suicide by page 24? (She gets better.) But it is,…