Pain comes before damage and after damage, but it is not an indicator of how much damage you have sustained. It is not an indicator that you have a actually sustained any damage and it is not proof that you still have any physical damage. You can have pain with damage. You can have pain without damage.

In this post, I’ll describe a common pathway into persistent pain when the focus on a physical cause of the pain ends up creating more problems than it set out to solve. It's a story repeated many times and in many physical areas of pain. The more you understand from this case study, the more you’ll recognise your own and others’ beliefs about their pain.

Whoa, whoa there!!! Let's start with an apology. I am so sorry you thought your pain is in your head because someone even suggested something to you that left you with that impression. Let me reassure you that your pain is not in your head. Here's why…

There's a common misconception about pain that many people suffering from persistent pain, and many others in general, hold. They mistakenly think that pain equates to damage and there must be damage when pain is present.

The Pain Habit ‘Painbites’ blog provides information in simple, bite-sized pieces about a complicated subject that makes it easily understandable for both patients and therapists.