Are you OK? Make sure you back off if you feel any pain. Does that hurt? Pull back, that looks sore!
As instructors we are naturally caring and empathetic people. But what if the words that you use when you are managing a client who is dealing with something painful are potentially doing more harm than good?
Are people allowed to exercise in pain? What advice can you give a client with identified pain issues who turns up for your session?
In this provocative talk Mark will explore the power of words as drivers or attenuators of your client’s pain experience. You will learn how an adjustment to the words that you use can dramatically improve the benefits that a client gets out of your session and take them from “can’t do” to “can do”.
Learning Outcomes:
• Examine the central drivers of enduring pain in people
• Explore sensitisation and how your language and behaviour can make your clients worse
• Discover a strategy that will allow you to deal with every client that presents to your session complaining of pain.
• Identify tools that you can use immediately to improve the experience of clients who are exercising with pain.
