When patients feel good, things get weird.

John asked a great question in the AP group: after a holiday break, patients came back happy, pain-free, and wanting to stretch out visits. Not because they were disengaging, but because they were doing well.

Which is harder to handle than pain.

Here’s the problem beneath the problem:
Feeling good reinforces Pain logic.
Pain logic says: “If I feel fine, I don’t need care.”

We break the situation down into five ideas:

• Beliefs drive behaviour
“I’ve felt fine” isn’t a statement, it’s a worldview. Pain or early Prevention logic. Totally consistent with their experience.

• Experience beats explanation
People trust what they feel more than what we tell them. Feeling good is persuasive. Lectures about prevention aren’t.

• Holidays lie
Different stress. Lower demand. No deadlines. Physiology behaves. The wobble shows up when normal life returns.

• Testing changes the frame
Progress exams are a better story: function before symptoms. Data before opinion. It shifts the goal from “pain gone” to “everything working.”

• Agree to experiment
If they want to push spacing out, make it a trial: tag-testing, clear checkpoints, shared decision-making. Collaboration instead of drift.

The bigger idea:
Reactivations and spacing aren’t clinical problems, they’re belief problems. If you understand the belief, you don’t have to push, sell, or convince. You just guide

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