Pain as motivation for movement therapy
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Speaker: [00:00:00] I want you to feel better, but I don't think you hurt enough.
I don't like being in pain. The slightest amount of pain that I feel on my body, I make it go away very, very quickly. Pain to me is a strong motivator. To work out, to stretch, um, do whatever is necessary to, uh, to feel normal.
What I've found with some patients is they don't have that motivation, that is that they can feel pain and they kind of live around it. I know that they want to get better. But their idea of how to get better, [00:01:00] it's totally hands off. I'll give you an example. There's this patient who wants to get stronger and whenever we do squats, he feels this pain in his knee Now.
When we're together, I show him exactly what stretches to do, what exercises that'll loosen up his quad so that he can have normal, healthy knees. And then when he does them in front of me, he feels better when he leaves, however the symptoms come back because. Well, he's not doing the exercises that I want him to do.
He's also sitting in positions that I have warned him [00:02:00] about.
The will to get rid of the pain does not outweigh the comfort of keeping the pain.
Doing exercises, especially exercises that are prescribed can and probably should be seen as medicine
and yet. The exercises for some people are still the very last thing that a client can think about when they're actually going through pain.
Is this an issue of motivation? Is this an issue of not understanding? I don't know. What we do in the clinic is show you [00:03:00] that the window of opportunity can be opened
through our interventions. We say, this is the potential that you have, and through the exercises we say, here's how to keep it.
When you go home and you voluntarily close that window, it's going to be difficult to progress.
I think pain can push us over the edge to do things. I hope that pain can push us to do what is necessary to get rid of pain. If you are lacking motivation to get rid of your pain. Go to kinesmovement.com and book a consult [00:04:00] 'cause I want to help you. I want to show you that
pain should be telling you to get rid of pain. Take ownership of your movement. Do more, wait less. I'll see you on the next one.