People with chronic pain often feel restricted in their movement due to pain. In some cases this is a good thing as restricting your movement avoids aggravating the injury and delaying the healing process. But that doesn’t mean that all movement is bad. The right movements, exercises and activities will actually speed up the healing process. Advance Healthcare Online Pain Management can help you on the journey of recovery through learning to move well.

The following resources are useful to read, listen to and engage with over your pain management program. Thinking about how this information might apply to your situation and discussing this with your Advance practitioner will greatly assist in your recovery.

1. Understanding your diagnosis and the movements that aggravate the injury is important. An example of the value of this approach can be seen in this info sheet. For low back pain our info sheets on controlling inflammation and building up the strength of the important muscles in your back are also critical components of improving the healing process. These principles also apply to other injury types

2. Pacing - movement is helpful provided it doesn’t cause flare ups. This info sheet explores the pacing approach to finding your stable baseline that supports healing and allows you to slowly build up your activities and exercises

3. Graded activity and exercise - regardless of the injury, to recover a gradual process of increasing activity and exercise is necessary. After being careful with aggravating movements early on it is important to slow build up your strength through a carefully monitored pain management program. This info sheet explains how

If you require this information in a different language, please contact your Advance practitioner.