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If you are living with persistent pain, one key factor of your recovery is moving your body. But where to start?

This isn't the same as building a fitness program. There are a few tips here to help you along the way. Start slow and build gradually, but most important, listen to your body.

When working with persistent pain and movement, I want you to connect your breath to the movement in a way that helps you build the confidence to continue moving and working without falling into a flare up.

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Interested in how my back pain journey is going?

Wondering what the best plan is for treating your persistent pain?

Questioning how movement fits into this?

Join me for this quick chat about these questions and more!

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Part of the Pain Reprocessing Therapy management is somatic tracking. This is where you take a moment, in this case 20 minutes, to be aware of the sensations in your body. Not analyze them, not make them go away, just be aware of them.

Combine this practice with the breathwork from Critical Alignment Therapy and now we are building a path back to wellness!

So find a place to rest, seated or laying down, for the next 20 min then let me know in comments how it felt!

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The good and the bad. Why?

Inflammation can help us heal injuries, but it can also affect our pain levels greatly. So let's look at inflammation and learn how to balance out the pro/anti inflammation in our lives.You don't need to quit and make big changes all at once, but taking small steps, making little changes, will start to help!

Interested in working with Amber one on one?

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We’ve all been there at some point. The Dr. appt that feels rushed, the physio that has 4 patients going at once, or even just being handed a sheet of exercises to do.

Patient centred care builds a relationship, allows the person who is living with pain to be heard and brought in on their treatment.

Let’s look at what Patient Centred Care is and how we can learn a little more about building this functional and more effective relationship with our medical support team.

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These are the facts that we know, through research.

Try out these questions…

With back pain, what % will recover within 7 days: 20%, 45%, or 70%?

And… if you do nothing for treatment after you do recover from a back pain episode, how likely is it to return within a year? 47%, 69%, or 83%?

Find out in this episode of A Path From Pain!

Remember, the more you know, the better decisions you make and the more manageable your persistent pain will be.

Research stats drawn from:

* https://cor-kinetic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/red-flags-for-low-back-pain-are-not-always-really-red.pdf

* https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/a-systematic-review-of-the-global-prevalence-of-low-back-pain

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34934626/

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36692107/

* https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)30480-X/abstract

* https://www.ajnr.org/content/36/4/811

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33579691/

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1836955319300591

* https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/55/9/468.full.pdf

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Join me and Dr. Scott Rollo as we chat about the top three tips to consider when building a healthy habit.

We also talk a little about how failure helps us succeed and about an app called GoGet.Fit.

What is your biggest take away from this episode? Drop a comment below!

Insterested in using the GoGet.Fit app? Let me know in the comments below and I’ll send you a code to access this NO COST (ever) app.

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