by Dr. Jason Gray | Jun 21, 2022 | Clinical Theory, Pain, Pain & Injury
There is a widely held belief that faulty movement patterns are a significant source of musculoskeletal pain and injury. The idea here is that improper joint motions put excessive stress on tissues that have trouble handling such a load. Over time the tissue breaks...
by Dr. Jason Gray | May 16, 2022 | Clinical Theory, Pain, Pain & Injury
PART 5: Re-Thinking A Movement Based Approach to Pain We’ve been talking a lot about pain in this article series. And from our discussions so far hopefully one thing is clear…Pain is far more than a simple reflexive response to tissue damage or injury. In...
by Dr. Jason Gray | May 3, 2022 | Clinical Theory, Pain
Part 4: The role of operant conditioning and pain We’ve been talking about pain. In Part 3 of this article series we introduced the the idea that the brain can “learn to hurt”. Through Classical Conditioning the brain has the potential to create...
by Dr. Jason Gray | Apr 26, 2022 | Clinical Theory, Pain
PART 3: Fear, learning, and pain From an evolutionary perspective, pain is a meant to protect us. It’s a tool your brain can call upon to help promote behaviors deemed most beneficial to survival of the organism. These were the key topics we covered in Part 2 of...
by Dr. Jason Gray | Apr 19, 2022 | Clinical Theory, Pain, Pain & Injury
Part 2: Pain and the Brain So we’ve been talking about Pain. More specifically, we’ve been trying to understand what causes pain? The hope here being a better understanding of pain will lead to more effective treatments. In Part 1 of this article series we...
by Dr. Jason Gray | Apr 12, 2022 | Clinical Theory, Pain
Part 1: Re-thinking The Traditional View of Pain At first glance pain seems like a straightforward process. You stub your toe or break a bone and it hurts. This is how most people understand pain. It’s consistent with the patho-anatomical view that holds tissue damage...
