Resources for People with Back Pain
"people do have to have a knowledge of why pain’s there, and how anxiety and your head can make it worse, to be able to overcome it, and move forward really"
BRIDGET, 65 YEAR OLD WOMAN
"I do find that if I’m really stressed, the pain increases"
Aroha, 25 year old woman
"I don't think I’m doing any further damage to myself, even though my body’s trying to tell me that I am"
Tane, 37 year old male
“I’m not going to really do any further damage by doing things ... I think having that in the back of my mind really has encouraged me to progress, and to do more physical activity”
AROHA, 25 YEAR OLD WOMAN
“don’t wait till it gets better before you move, you have to move while you’re in pain”
KAREN, 32 YEAR OLD WOMAN
“that’s probably the most important thing, if you don’t constantly challenge the boundaries, how ever will you know if you can go further? So you have to go up and bat them all the time, and when you bat them, you can do too much, but then you know ‘okay, so that was too much, so I, I hit that one a little more gently, and I go beyond it and push,’ you’ve got to keep pushing that barrier out, whether it’s the pain barrier, or your activity barrier, they’ve both got to keep on being pushed out”
Bridget, 65 year old woman
"That's very important. Cannot emphasise that enough. Keep things moving. And that’s something I’ve learnt myself, but it is something which is taught as well"
Tane, 37 year old man
"I was lying in bed for a long time, in pain, and it wasn’t getting better, and I think I made it a lot worse, doing that"
Karen, 32 year old female