{"id":30,"date":"2007-01-24T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/30\/think-and-move-and-your-pain-may-improve\/"},"modified":"2016-11-12T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T20:02:57","slug":"think-and-move-and-your-pain-may-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/30\/think-and-move-and-your-pain-may-improve\/","title":{"rendered":"Think and move, and your pain may improve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a very interesting new study of a movement therapy for pain.\u00a0Dr. Moseley at Oxford studied a specific sequence of <em>thinking <\/em>about movements and <em>actual<\/em> movements that seems to lessen pain and increase function. This treatment is very exciting work for several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it lessens pain<\/li>\n<li>it increases functioning<\/li>\n<li>it helps in difficult-to-treat conditions like CRPS (RSD) and phantom limb pain<\/li>\n<li>it doesn&#8217;t rely on medication or invasive procedures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Patients in the study went through the following sequence:<\/p>\n<p>1. Looking a pictures of hands and feet, and determining if each picture was from the right or left side of the body.<\/p>\n<p>2. <em>Imagining <\/em>moving their hand or foot into the same position as each picture.<\/p>\n<p>3. <em>Actually<\/em> moving their hand or foot into the same position as each picture.<\/p>\n<p>As in all treatment I write about on this blog, this is <strong>NOT <\/strong>something to try at home.\u00a0In previous studies of Dr. Moseley&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve read, for example, patients experienced <em>increased<\/em> pain if the treatment was\u00a0out of a particular order. So this treatment is to be undertaken only under a doctor&#8217;s guidance; it&#8217;s not harmless because it&#8217;s &#8220;just moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0decrease in pain seems to come from a re-training in\u00a0your brain, having the brain focus on normal movements rather than pain signals. But the exact way it works isn&#8217;t known.\u00a0If you&#8217;re interested in reading the study, it&#8217;s published in\u00c2\u00a0<em>Neurology<\/em>, Volume 67, Issue 12, page 2129, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a very interesting new study of a movement therapy for pain.\u00a0Dr. Moseley at Oxford studied a specific sequence of thinking about movements and actual movements that seems to lessen pain and increase function. This treatment is very exciting work for several reasons: it lessens pain it increases functioning it helps in difficult-to-treat conditions like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}