Your first step will be to get thoroughly checked out (in person is best for diagnosis) by your Doctor/s, and other qualified health professionals including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, psychology, osteopathy or chiropractic with gentle methods such as craniosacral. Wherever possible it is best to seek medical professionals with extra training in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). Sadly, training at universities in CRPS is rare, which means you are often reliant on the individual health professional to seek out additional training resources/read articles/books/attend courses and co ..read more

This wonderful artwork on the front cover of the book Explain Pain Supercharged by David Butler and Lorimer Moseley (noigroup.com), gives us the perfect visual for exploring whether we should be treating the human body more like a machine or a garden. Viewing our body like a machine? Car engines operate in a linear fashion. Suck ® Squeeze ® Bang ® Blow. Air and fuel are sucked into the cylinder ® they are compressed ® they are ignited ® the waste gas is exhausted. When something malfunctions with a machine we usually seek out the defective part/s and fix it right? Surrounded by machines as we ..read more