Exercise

How can you find balance prevent yourself from being too active in case of pain, or too active in case of pain?

What can you do to achieve a better physical balance in life? How can you restore your own balance? 

Virtual reality for pain, will that work? This week I will consider the role that virtual reality can play in the treatment of pain.

Challenging thoughts: How do you make sure that thoughts help you once you know them? So that they don't make your pain even worse?

How come negative thoughts can make your pain worse? What can you do to let your thoughts help you? This week I will reflect on the role of thoughts in pain. 

One of the main pitfalls of chronic pain is that we often do too much, or too little. In short, staying within your physical limits can be difficult. Too little activity can make your condition worse, too much effort can make your body endure too much.

This week was all about sleep. You have received tips on what you can do to sleep better and to learn more about sleep. Still, sleeping well is not so obvious.

This week is all about sleep. Sleep has a huge impact on everything we do in life. It influences our emotions, stress levels and how (clear) we think. You can imagine that sleeping as well as possible in case of pain is very important. Below are several tips to improve your sleep.

Pain is not only a physical, but also an emotional thing - and making use of visualizing can influence emotions. It is very hard to have pain for a long time. It can make you insecure, gloomy and afraid of what is to come.

"Daddy, we're into an argument" - says my two-year-old son. I have just spoken to him in a strict manner. What do you do when you have a quarrel? - I ask him. Seriously looking, he answers: 'listen carefully'.