The festive period can be a wonderful time and a difficult one too for a variety of reasons for some people, including for people managing health conditions associated with persistent pain and fatigue. These health conditions include: persistent pain, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, long covid and PoTS. If you live with one of these conditions, or another, …
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What Is Pacing? There isn’t an agreed definition of pacing, I would define it as flexible way of structuring your day in a way that supports both function and wellbeing. Pacing essentially means breaking down tasks and activities into manageable chunks with consideration of the different types of activities, including enough short rest breaks …
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This is part two of the healing within connectedness & love blog, in this blog we will look briefly at the importance of aligning mind, body & heart, along with connectedness in healing, especially living from the heart, connected to our true selves/true nature, other people, love and nature. You can find part one of …
I’ve been pondering healing and thought that I would sharing some of my musings around this and the importance of connectedness as part of healing, in particular to our heart, to love, nature and to something bigger than us. Part one of this blog will explore what healing means and part two will touch on the …
Physiotherapy can be helpful for people with PoTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), it is recommended to be with a physiotherapist that has a specialism or special interest in PoTS. Before we look at how physiotherapy can help let’s look at what PoTS is. What is PoTS? Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) is a form …
What Is a Pain Specialist Physiotherapist & How Is This Different to MSK Physiotherapy? Persistent pain (also known as chronic pain) is a specialist area/field in healthcare, it’s an area that I have specialised in and wanted to share a little on what this means. A little background on physiotherapy training, following completion of …
If you haven’t read part one of the blog yet you can find that here https://unityphysio.co.uk/grief-loss-in-persistent-pain-other-health-conditions-part-one/ What Can Help We need resources to help us in the grief process, resources help balance the challenges & vulnerabilities that arise. A really important inner resource is compassion which I think this is foundational in many things including …
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This blog is about grief and losses in persistent pain (also known as chronic pain) and other long-term health conditions. It’s important to be aware that reading this may be triggering for some people, please choose if reading it is ok for you. The suffering associated with losses and grief affects us all many times …
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