Chronic Pain

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Click on an article below and learn about pain management, healthy living, natural movement, foot health, mind-body connection, and many other different aspects of how you can look at the bigger picture of chronic pain.

Amber Kyliuk

Mar 4
2 min

What the heck is Self-Efficacy?

Amber Kyliuk

Feb 24
4 min

How Pain Becomes Chronic.

Did you know that if you have been experiencing pain for longer than 6 months, it is now considered chronic. Whether is was a clear...

Amber Kyliuk

Feb 20
3 min

The Mental Load of Chronic Pain

Does chronic pain play a part in our mental exhaustion?

Critical Alignment Therapy... What is it?

Amber Kyliuk

Jan 22
4 min

Critical Alignment Therapy... What is it?

You've likely seen my posts about how much I use that weird looking black strap and wondered... What in the world do you do with that? I...

Two Different Paths... Gerry's Story of Pain

Amber Kyliuk

Jan 11
4 min

Two Different Paths... Gerry's Story of Pain

There is always choice. Sometimes we don't know what exists, sometimes we are too worn out from our persistent pain to even think...

Amber Kyliuk

Jan 2
3 min

Can You Really 'Fix' Your Pain?

When you are experiencing chronic pain, whether it is your neck, shoulder, lower back, hip, knee, anywhere... what you want is for...

Where is Your Exhaustion Really Coming From?

Amber Kyliuk

Dec 8, 2022
3 min

Where is Your Exhaustion Really Coming From?

In today's society, our 'hard work pays off' slogan has managed to create a toxic work place mindset that pushes away the idea of rest to...

Amber Kyliuk

Sep 16, 2022
4 min

My Pain Story

Where to begin, let's start at today. These days I have very little pain, anything that does bother me is in my left SI joint and tends...

Amber Kyliuk

Aug 8, 2022
4 min

The Mind-Body Connection

You may have noticed by now that your mind and body are intricately connected. The most obvious of this connection is how we tend to...

Amber Kyliuk

Jul 20, 2022
2 min

Bad Glutes...

Ah the causes of pain are numerous... If you've read a few of my posts now, you know that pain is complex. When your pain is chronic,...

Amber Kyliuk

Jun 17, 2022
3 min

Part 4... The Fear/Pain Cycle

Again, pain is exhausting. I do hope that you've been able to find some guidance in the last 3 posts. Our ingrained system of putting our...

Amber Kyliuk

May 25, 2022
2 min

The Quick Fix Promise... Part 3

Welcome back! If you have read the previous 2 posts, you know where I am going. If you haven't, no worries! Welcome! Though if you'd like...

Chronic Pain, Part 2... Finding GOOD Help

Amber Kyliuk

May 18, 2022
4 min

Chronic Pain, Part 2... Finding GOOD Help

I've seen MANY physical therapists/massage/chiro/acupuncture/osteopaths. Some helped, some didn't. Why? Even though their professions are...

Amber Kyliuk

May 10, 2022
2 min

How to Deal with Chronic Pain

This is a loaded topic, and not in the way anyone wants to carry it around. Chronic pain is exhausting. This post isn't going to give you...

Amber Kyliuk

Apr 20, 2022
1 min

Our Feet Issues

Last week I wrote about shoes... as I see that they can be a major contributing factor to our foot health, that seemed like a great place...

Amber Kyliuk

Mar 8, 2022
2 min

The Mindset of Stress

In the last 5 years, while studying the complexity of pain, I've also been learning about stress. When I was in University, we were...

Amber Kyliuk

Jan 7, 2022
1 min

Book Recommendation - The Way Out

The Way Out by Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv I heard about this book back in August, when it was released, through a chronic pain group that I...

Recommended Resources

The Way Out Book

The Way Out by Alan Gordon & Alon Ziv

Explain Pain Book

One of the first books on explaining chronic pain.

Explain Pain Protectometer

Protectometer book

The Way Out Book

The Way Out by Alan Gordon & Alon Ziv

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