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Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist

Blog: http://healthskills.wordpress.com/
About me: I trained as an occupational therapist, and graduated in 1984. Since then I’ve continued study at postgraduate level and my papers have included business skills, ergonomics, mental health therapies, and psychology. I completed by Masters in Psychology in 1999, and started my PhD... Full Bio
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Trust, teamwork and transparency by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Teams are a feature of healthcare, and nowhere more so than in pain management.  This is because, at least for chronic pain, no single profession can claim to have all ... Read on »
Living well with persistent pain – a problem solving model by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Regions of the cerebral cortex associated with pain. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Chronic pain is abnormal. Living well with chronic pain seems a myth, a bit of ... Read on »
Nerdy, Sciency Stuff by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain The past three weeks have been a swirl of joyous, passionate neuro-nerdy stuff! And yes, it’s absolutely possible to call neuroscience joyous and passionate (just ask Davi ... Read on »
The Graded Motor Imagery Handbook – a review by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain I love getting presents, and I love books, so what could be better than getting a book to review as a present! Graded motor imagery (GMI) has become incredibly popular ... Read on »
Lorimer Moseley throws the gauntlet down! by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain This week I’ve been at the NOI Conference 2012 – a real blast! A week of neuroscience-backed biopsychosocial practice, and nerdy passions. My brain is nourished, in fact, ... Read on »
How occupational engagement might work in pain management by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Intuitively, most of us know that when we’re actively involved in doing something we either enjoy or is sufficiently complex enough to need attention, we can lose awar ... Read on »
Mindfulness, catastrophising and disability by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Readers of Healthskills will know I have a fascination for mindfulness as an intervention for people who have ongoing pain.  Mindfulness is relatively easy to learn, ... Read on »
Pain reduction doesn’t (always) reduce disability by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain The relationship between pain and disability is a particularly vexing one in primary care. It would be great if it was possible to get rid of pain and be assured tha ... Read on »
Gratitude when you’re in pain? You’ve got to be kidding! by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Or – introducing the “parent of all virtues” (Wood, Joseph & Linley, 2007). For some time now I’ve been exploring the contribution of positive psychology on wellbeing ... Read on »
What to do when a patient is “inconsistent” by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain I’m a practical person, despite occasional flights of fancy dreaming of a health service that really integrates a biopsychosocial approach for pain management, sigh… Anywa ... Read on »
“Faking” pain – and inconsistency in presentation by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain There is a common belief amongst some people involved in pain and pain management that a person with chronic pain should be consistent in their presentation. That is ... Read on »
The vexed question of determining whether pain is “real” by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Every now and then the old chestnut of whether it’s possible to determine if a person’s pain is “real” arises. Usually it’s in the form of an insurer, or maybe an em ... Read on »
When patients think their problem is mysterious by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain This post is sparked off by a Facebook discussion where someone (you know who you are!) asked what to do when patients hold entrenched beliefs about the uniqueness or mys ... Read on »
OT Only Area – Password Access by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain For those who would like to gain access to the OT Only area of this blog, please click here , go to the contact area towards the bottom of the page, give your name, email ... Read on »
Protected: Why I can no longer think of myself as an occupational therapist by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain This post is password protected. You must visit the website and enter the password to continue reading. Read on »
Empathy, distress and mindfulness by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain One of the main thrusts of the paper by Hadjistavropoulos, Craig, Duck, Cano, Goubert, Jackson, et al., is that pain communication can serve several functions – it can ... Read on »
Seeing is believing? by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain I am slowly wending my way through a long, complex and incredibly important article by a group of researchers and clinicians writing about the social element of pain.  Th ... Read on »
Which comes first: Doing or knowing? by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Received wisdom in cognitive behavioural therapy says that to change behaviour, a person must first change his or her thinking.  This has created a tension between those ... Read on »
Play with the cute hamster! by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Read on »
Around and around and around we go – or…back to the beginning again by Bronwyn T. Occupational Therapist Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain In the early days of non-medical chronic pain management, operant models of behavioural learning were used by Prof W Fordyce.  At the time, this was a revolutionary appro ... Read on »
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