We all function on different levels and have different duties to fulfil our daily lives. Whether sourcing an income to make some cash or changing diapers of our younglings; each to their own. There are many factors that influence our Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s). In this Blogpost, we’re…

  Help! My clinician mentioned something about SIN when I described how my chronic pain makes me feel?!   Don’t stress, SIN refers to Severity, Intensity and Nature of pain or discomfort. It’s one of the tools doctors and therapists use to measure your pain and also to see how…

  Pain is particularly difficult to quantify, especially since it’s highly individual to each person. A needle prick may be painful for one person, and for another just another activity of daily life. For example, people living with diabetes are much more used to insulin injections than the general Good…

  Pain is as old as being alive itself. Pain is a natural response to any form of overpowering sensory stimulation, be that mechanical (like pinching), heat (burning) or chemical (like skin irritation). Even though you have specific nerves for each of these, once it is perceived to be damaging…

  As mentioned in a previous post, pain is highly individualized and experienced differently by every single person. This adds to the difficulty faced by clinicians daily; pain is highly subjective and extremely difficult to quantify. What’s pain for one, might be only a tickle for someone else.   This…

  Chronic pain is discomfort that affects a person for more than three months. It does not have to be continuous, but may come and go at times, which is called ‘acute exacerbations’. Chronic pain can affect any part of the body and vary in severity. The impact of chronic…

  Pain has probably been the most reliable symptom of disease (or rather, dis-ease) throughout history. Chronic pain has been described throughout the centuries and has plagued humanity for ages. Here follows a shortened timeline regarding literature on pain:   In ancient cultures (1500-1300BC) pain without a physical cause was…

  Chronic pain eating away at your livelihood? Keep an eye on this Site to find valuable insights! Find out how a clinician sees pain, assesses it and read some personal perspectives from a clinician living with chronic pain and helping others through their daily lives.   The truth of…