09/03/2026
Jenny explains the link between pain and movement — and how physiotherapy can help you get back to doing the things you enjoy.
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Should you focus on reducing your pain first, then start being a bit more active...
OR
Start being a bit more active to help ease your pain?
Traditionally physio has focused on pain relief first and then as you start to feel better has encouraged you to get back to a bit of walking or gentle exercises
Thats because we believed that ALL pain was due to damaged muscles, joints or nerves.
So it made sense, to not do too much, avoid anything that makes pain worse, as your pain eases, it's evidence you're healing.
We now know that pain is how our nervous system protects our bodies from harm or more damage.
But they key difference is that its the nervous systems perception of threat. We can, and do, feel pain if the brain thinks there is a risk of harm to us.
So if the nervous system can give us pain as a way of protecting us, it means that we can have pain without any damage to our muscles, joints or nerves.
The less we move, the more we avoid doing things that may have caused us to feel pain, the more 'dangerous' or 'risky' the nervous system thinks it is.
In fact moving a bit more, doing a bit of the thing that can make you a bit sore or uncomfortable is a good way to start to easing pain.
It may instinctively feel like it's not a good idea and unfortunately there is lots of misinformation about pain on Dr. Google!!
If you are unsure where to start get some sensible professional advice. Sometimes even health professionals can reinforce the 'avoid it at all costs' advice.
We humans are meant to move, to live life. Muscles, joints and nerves need movement and us to load them everyday to stay healthy
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