Ep. 045|Pain, The Brain & Emotional Learning| Melissa Farmer
Physiotutors Podcast
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What's the Best Learning State for Pain Relief?
The optimal state for pain relief is whenever pain is reducing or stable and there's not a flare in sight you could say. The sympathetic arousal state during pain flares affects how much information they can take in. So if you look at the state of the nervous system during a pain flare what can that nervous system best benefit from? I would say self-soothing and any type of support that's salient for that person. We're shifting into this view that during pain flares and whenever pain is high and intense focusing instead on self-compassion, rest, recuperation without feeling guilty about it.
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