Sjúkraþjálfun Laugarvatni

08/09/2025

Alþjóðlegur dagur sjúkraþjálfunar fer fram í dag 8.september.

Áherslur 2025 eru Heilbrigð öldrun og Byltuvarnir

Til hamingju með daginn við öll 🥳

29/08/2025

Eftir helgi fara hóptímarnir í gang aftur. Vegna skipulagsbreytinga hafa þeir verið færðir.

Jafnvægishópur verður á þriðjudögum og fimmtudögum kl. 13:15 og FysioFlow verður á þriðjudögum kl. 8:30.

Áhugasöm hafi samband hér á þessari síðu eða í gegnum sjukrathjalfunlaugarvatni@gmail.com

Kv.
Linda

11/07/2025

Lokað verður næstu fimm vikurnar vegna sumarfrís. Opna aftur mánudaginn 18. ágúst.

20/05/2025

Your brain is wired to scan for danger—but you can gently teach it to look for safety instead.

✨ Right now, pause and ask yourself:
• Is there a warm spot of sunlight nearby?
• A soft blanket within reach?
• A breath that feels just a little easier than the last?

No moment of comfort is too small to notice. In fact, it’s these tiny, ordinary moments that retrain your nervous system to feel safe again.

Linger there. Let your awareness rest on what feels good. Because what you focus on… grows. 🌱

Try it today—and tell me in the comments, what’s one small, good thing you noticed? 👇

23/04/2025

Áfram gakk!

12/03/2025

Tilkynning frá Félagi Sjúkraþjálfara

Stjórn Félags sjúkraþjálfara lýsir yfir afstöðu sinni í meðfylgjandi yfirlýsingu um notkun hnykkmeðferða og liðlosunar fyrir ungabörn (0-2 ára), börn (2-12 ára) og unglinga (13-18 ára). Yfirlýsinguna í heild má nálgast í athugasemd hér að neðan.

11/03/2025

When you’re afraid that your symptoms might get worse, your brain interprets this fear as a signal of danger. So what starts off as a dull ache might skyrocket into a flare with fear alone.

Fear (because it is a type of threat) activates the fight-or-flight response, which can both heighten your awareness of physical sensations and amplify the symptoms you’re experiencing.

This heightened state of threat detection, fear and anxiety can create a very common vicious cycle. The more you fear your symptoms, the more your brain stays in a state of high alert, and the more likely it is that you’ll notice and focus on any changes in your symptoms. This focus can inadvertently reinforce the brain’s belief that there’s a threat which perpetuates the cycle.

Breaking this cycle involves shifting your focus from fear the future to acceptance and compassion of the present moment. Meeting exactly what is happening now with gentle reassurance and logical thinking. By acknowledging your symptoms without judgment and reminding yourself that they’re not dangerous, you can help calm your nervous system which in turn, reduces the intensity of the symptoms and the fear associated with them.

It’s about retraining your brain to understand that the symptoms, while awful, are not a sign of impending danger, nor are they a prediction of the future. Over time, this approach can help reduce the fear response and prevent it from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, accept what is without the added pressure of “what if it gets worse?”

06/03/2025

While tracking the duration of flare-ups can sometimes provide insights (like what is triggering it, what’s making it worse, etc.) it can also inadvertently reinforce fear by focusing on the symptoms and their persistence. This focus can increase anxiety and keep the brain in a state of hyper-vigilance, which typically exacerbates symptoms rather than alleviates them.

Instead, try to shift your attention away from the specifics of the symptoms (like its duration or intensity) and towards understanding and altering the emotional and cognitive responses to it.

By focusing on how you relate to the symptom rather than the presence of it, you can reduce fear and anxiety, helping to retrain the brain’s response to these signals. This approach aligns with the principles of outcome independence, where the goal is to change your relationship with the pain, rather than meticulously tracking its patterns.

If you want something to take note of overtime — try tracking your wins! Record anything that is an improvement, or an encouraging insight. This will help you much more than tracking the awful parts of your recovery journey.

21/02/2025

Alan Gordon hefur sérhæft sig í verkjum sem hafa ekki vefjafræðilega orsök.

This is exactly how neuroplastic pain works.

Your brain’s fear system gets overprotective and starts ‘sounding an alarm’ even when there’s no real danger. It’s like a smoke detector that goes off every time you burn toast. And because your brain learns through associations, it can link certain thoughts or imagined movements to pain. So, you might find that even just picturing yourself doing something that used to hurt can be enough to trigger the whole pain response, even if your body is perfectly fine. It’s all about a hypersensitive fear circuit misinterpreting safe signals as threats.

The good news is that because it’s a learned response, you can unlearn it! We can retrain your brain to stop overreacting by gently and consistently showing it that these imagined movements or activities are actually safe. Through techniques like Pain Reprocessing Therapy and positive self-talk and self-soothing we can gradually dial down that fear response and help your brain reclassify these previously feared stimuli as harmless.

It’s about creating a sense of safety and breaking those learned associations so that your brain stops sounding the alarm unnecessarily.

21/12/2024

Nú er komið jólafrí, opnað verður aftur 6.janúar. Gleðilega hátíð og takk fyrir ánægjuleg samskipti á árinu sem er að líða

08/09/2024

Alþjóðadagur sjúkraþjálfunar er í dag og af því tilefni var þessi grein um rituð.

https://www.visir.is/g/20242618051d/mjobaksverkir-hvad-er-rett-og-rangt-?fbclid=IwY2xjawFKdd9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW_uhRPjq-6ALi9AYoqIkBk_Aw-dRmC2KGFo1FAiGnh8tzaXkdp13EGxog_aem_Y9rqeztExF5ijoB0HQcOAQ

Fjölmargir einstaklingar upplifa mjóbaksverki ár hvert og er það algengasta ástæða færniskerðingar í heiminum.