
Ep 14: Rethinking the treatment of chronic pain, with Dr Merv Travers (Part 1)
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The Importance of Safe Movement
Movement to a certain extent is a way of learning about the information from the outside world. We might have someone who has persisting low back pain and they're kind of super stiff around their trunk. Now it may be that they're using their body to sample information and to learn about themselves. So maybe you say, okay, look, how can I get this patient to relax their tummy and breathe into their belly and you get them to lean forward again? If they move differently, then the incoming signal and the predictions won't match. And if that goes up and refines their model and they experience a little less pain, like, actually, you know what, that was a
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