The One Word You Never Tell Patients

Have you ever noticed that some patients are extremely sensitive to what you say?  Mention a potential bad outcome, and that’s all your patient thinks about, and thinks about, and thinks about…

Modern pain science teaches us that a patient’s state of mind, aka their psychosocial state greatly influences their chronic pain state.  Since ALL pain is in the brain, then a patient’s attitudes, fears, hopes, expectations, and other emotional predispositions have a huge effect on chronic pain processing.

Lorimer Moseley, Adrian Louw, Greg Lehman and Erson Religioso have all done an amazing job at bringing modern pain science into the rehabilitation conversation. 

In this video, I share with you the ONE WORD you never say to patients unless it’s inevitable.