Your Pain isn’t Just Physical: the Biopsychosocial Model
Are you currently struggling with chronic pain? Maybe back, hip, or shoulder pain? A disc herniation? A spondylolisthesis? Facet arthritis? Degenerative Disc Disease?
Whatever the issue is, chronic pain is more complicated than people want to hear. It isn’t all about mechanics, movement, stretching, strengthening, and massaging. While movement is a crucial piece to the puzzle, the complexity of pain reaches far beyond that.
There are hundreds of pain studies out there and here are a FEW things that have been shown to INCREASE our pain:
our lack of confidence in our body and life
fear of movement
the quality and amount of our sleep
our diet (inflammatory)
how much time we spend in nature and get sun vs. inside on screens
how much stress we are under
how much anxiety we have
unresolved past or current trauma
how we think and talk about our pain to ourselves and others
how our parents responded to our pain when we were young
our education about how pain works
the manipulation from the pharmaceutical industry that pain is bad and needs to be covered up with pills…
the list goes on... and on... and on
The above list is often referred to as the biopsychosocial model of pain - it implies that pain is biological, genetic, and mechanical, but it also asserts that our mind and environment also play a huge role in pain.
These are all topics we cover extensively in our programs. I used to only focus on movement to help resolve peoples’ pain, and although it worked sometimes for acute and chronic pains, it didn’t help chronic pain most of the time. Over the last several years, I have learned much about how pain works from books, podcasts, and other pain-science social accounts.
As a result, our members overcome pain significantly faster and are more resilient to future bouts of pain. Remember, pain is inevitable and will pop up throughout life - how we respond to our pain ultimately determines whether or not it controls us.
If you want to resolve your chronic pain, look beyond the physical. We're so confident you'll transform your health with our programs that we offer a 30 day money back guarantee on any program. Try them out today for yourself!
