How Changing Your Mindset will Improve Your Pain

This is a great episode focusing on how the right mindset can make a difference in recovery. What you think and believe about your pain has a huge influence on your potential to recover and a recovery mindset is about managing what you say to yourself, your self-beliefs and updating your education about back pain. If you fully understand what is happening to your body and have a growth mindset you can positively influence your recovery. Look at the bigger picture and understand how to problem solve your way through recovery with a flexible growth mindset if you want to optimise your recovery journey.   KEY TAKEAWAYS You need to fully understand what is happening in your body when you are feeling good when you are feeling pain and what you have the capacity to do. Getting a base level of education is about self-reassurance Fear can be one component of pain-related anxiety Historically people think about their bodies in a mechanistic way but now it would be better to think about the human body as an adaptive and ever-changing biological mechanism You can’t separate the brain from the body it’s all one system and you need to think about things in a more multi-dimensional system. When you move away from ‘it’s one thing’ thinking and look at the bigger picture everything changes. If you have multifactorial back pain you need to be working on all the contributing factors. A fixed mindset is I can’t do that whilst a growth mindset is I can’t do that yet You need to understand the importance of problem-solving your way through recovery Using the 1% approach is about making small changes one at a time that over time make a big change. You should be able to look at things as a combination of approaches. To get into a pain recovery mindset you need to accept that you have pain and where you are starting from.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Update your education so you are empowered and understand the problem’ ‘You need to be flexible in your approach things will go wrong so you have to be prepared to adapt and change’ ‘You need to be optimistic that you can make a recovery’   VALUABLE RESOURCES The Back Pain Podcast The Back Pain Podcast recommended products affiliate link   ABOUT THE HOSTS Dave Elliot Dave is the owner of Advanced Chiropractic, a chain of Chiropractic and massage therapy clinics in Essex, UK. Dave still sees patients during the week but has been working hard to talk to as many experts in the field of back pain as possible to help distil all the information and bring it to you in this awesome podcast. You can find Dave on any of the Advanced Chiropractic social media platforms, or you can contact him at [email protected] if you have any questions for him. -Instagram   Rob Beaven Rob owns and runs a multidisciplinary clinic, The Dyer St Clinic in Cirencester Gloucestershire. His team of Chiropractors, Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Doctors and podiatrists all collaborate on thousands of back pain patients every year. Alongside Dave, he has worked hard to bring to the table experts across all industries to give you the low down on back pain, with steps you can implement today to start feeling better. -Instagram -Twitter   CONTACT METHOD Instagram Twitter Facebook [email protected]                           Support the show: https://thebackpainpodcast.com