
Ep 14: Rethinking the treatment of chronic pain, with Dr Merv Travers (Part 1)
JOSPT Insights
The Importance of Internally Held Information in Perception
The information already held in your system within your central nervous system is absolutely central to the generation of a percept. Pain isn't as an experience initiated by peripheral events like nociception that are that are predictions that are generated from previously held information and they actually bias and mold our conscious experiences. We think there are four kind of mutually reinforcing steps that you're trying to help the person understand that it's safe for them to move, experience that it'ssafe to move, and finally reinforce safety through repeated and progressive loading. And so when we having an internal model that's informed by your past experiences, beliefs,. all the things you've been told or getting to the bottom of someone