by Jessica Kisiel | Mar 5, 2024 | Injury Recovery, Pain Science Education, Personal Wellness
Do you continually worry about and focus on your pain? Do you put pressure on yourself to figure out how to fix your pain and become frustrated or angry when the pain doesn’t go away? Do you degrade yourself because you’re still hurting? Do you fight against the pain...
by Jessica Kisiel | Feb 23, 2024 | Pain Science Education, Personal Wellness
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a research-based treatment approach for healing neuroplastic pain. These techniques were found to be highly effective for chronic back pain in a 2022 study. Refer to my blog, New Research on Back Pain, for all the details. Earlier...
by Jessica Kisiel | Apr 5, 2023 | Injury Recovery, Pain Science Education
Two weeks ago, I developed severe right shoulder pain and stiffness. It was excruciating to move in any direction, and I couldn’t get into a comfortable position to rest. I worried that I wouldn’t be able to meet with clients, teach my class, or ride my bike. The...
by Jessica Kisiel | Mar 22, 2023 | Injury Recovery, Pain Science Education
A perfect storm, like chronic pain, emerges when numerous factors combine simultaneously. Merriam-Webster defines “perfect storm” as “a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors.” Let’s substitute chronic pain into this definition:...
by Jessica Kisiel | Jan 21, 2021 | Injury Recovery, Pain Science Education
Pain is: “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage.” This updated definition of pain was provided by The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)...
by Jessica Kisiel | Aug 15, 2017 | Injury Recovery, Pain Science Education
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon. Neurosciences Professor Dr. Lorimer Moseley says, “Pain is a construct of the brain.”1 Now to be clear, I am not suggesting that the pain is all in your head or that you...
