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Overcoming fear of movement in osteoarthritis

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You're a Physiotherapist, and I'm a Clinical Psychologist

Francis: I think one of the key underlying myths that people tend to associate with is this idea that pain equates to structural damage in the body. He says we train ourselves to help people seek problems, but also a strong missing society that if you have a pain problem, it means that something went wrong in your body structure. And along with that, he said, comes the idea that when you are in pain, movement is dangerous and loading a body path is dangerous. Francis: We see people that are 47, 48, and they have this bone-on-bone joint, but they are not ready yet to get any replacement. They've been told that they just need to sit

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