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Mermikides, Alex; Bouchard, Gianna

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“…Implicit in this is a critical reflection on seeing the body as not just something to be treated or cured; it aims to value subjective experience and recognizes that this cannot easily be measured. Mermikides and Bouchard (2016 , p. 3) reflect on the history of medicine, with “standardized techniques of assessment, diagnosis and treatment.” They explain that the potential of performance practices to offer “personal reflection and experiential subjectivity” (p. 4) is “contrary to the passive patient who receives care.” Performance practices encourage people to “enact, act out, up or against the passivity” (p. 11–12). However, one of the central tenets of most pain management programs is encouraging people living with pain to play an active part in their own well-being.…”

Section: Background To Somatic Practices In Chronic Pain Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving With Pain: What Principles From Somatic Practices Can Offer to People Living With Chronic Pain

Meehan

Carter

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This article brings together research from the fields of chronic pain management and somatic practices to develop a novel framework of principles to support people living with persistent pain. These include movement-based approaches to awareness of the internal body (interoception), the external environment (exteroception) and movement in space (proprioception). These significantly work with the lived subjective experiences of people living with pain, to become aware of body signals and self-management of symptoms, explore fear and pleasure of movement, and understand how social environments impact on pain. This analysis has potential to create new ways of supporting, understanding and articulating pain experiences, as well as shaping the future of somatic practices for chronic pain.

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Section: Background To Somatic Practices In Chronic Pain Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%