Perception v Reality

“Perception is the brain’s best guess about what is happening in the outside world. Perception is inference.” Atul Gawande Our brain does a fair bit of guess work. It is constantly reviewing, sorting, filtering, ignoring, acting on a constant barrage of conscious and subconscious information that it receives both from inside the body and from the environment. It […]

Can you help me? | STEPP

We get asked that a lot. It is usually then followed by a somewhat despairing recount of their personal pain story. You can tell they have told it many times. I then find myself writing the same email back to them that I have written many times previously. How are we different? What do we actually […]

Pain is personal | STEPP Shoalhaven

It is tempting  to brush aside chronic pain advice from well meaning health professionals because they don’t understand your pain. The advice is often geared towards just coping and getting on with life – functioning despite the pain. It often comes at the end of a course of treatment where nothing has really made much […]