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Soula Chats With Amy Eicher
ere's so much to learn in order to be able to navigate chronic pain. The psychological side of pain is huge as is the energy required to manage it!That's why we need fantastic coaches like Amy Eicher. Certainly what adds to Amy's ability to help and reach people is her own experience of being lost in the search for diagnosis and finding her own way from there. To add to that, Amy's education path is a very interesting one – one that totally validates her ability to understand and help people!Amy and I talk about all the above... [...]
A Chat With Anne-Florence Plante (my Diagnosing Physiotherapist)
I can't really think of a better way to mark my 14 year anniversary with chronic pain than to present this wonderful (loooong) chat with my diagnosing physiotherapist, Anne-Florence Plante. I will clarify firstly that Anne-Florence's official title is not Soula's physiotherapist but rather her qualification is Senior Clinician Physiotherapist. Anne-Florence Plante not only diagnosed me but this awe-inspiring human is the reason pudendalnerve.com.au exists. We have stayed in touch on and off over the years which has been wonderful and now, given my move to video advocacy it was only fitting that my first two [...]
Soula & Theo Chat About Pain Management
You have all heard so much about Theo and how we have (and continue) to work together through chronic pain. However, you have never really heard from Theo directly nor does the chronic pain world hear or acknowledge the 'carer' anywhere near enough. I thought a chat with Theo – specific to pain management would be insightful and a great way to kick off my video 'interviews'. Although couples have various chemistries and approaches to their relationships, I thought there may still be something in this chat to help others with the battle of trying to live, love [...]
Life, Stitched Back Up Again
Everything that chronic pain had undone in the first nine years of this 14-year nightmare, Theo and I have managed to finally mend. Stitch by stitch, we made a new house, founded a new livelihood, purchased a more comfy car, made new friends, welcomed a different breed of fur child and all of this in a new (unfamiliar) town. It's a rebirth! All of this, driven by the hunt for pain management after a ball pop, drop and a bang. Or was it...?
Early Illustrations of the Nervous System by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
'His most revolutionary finding was the utter lack of evidence for either axons or dendrites fusing and forming networks like those described by Golgi. He observed that, on the contrary, it seemed neurons did not need to touch to communicate. They only had to be contiguous for signals to be transmitted from one to the other. (The term “synapse”, used to describe the structure that permits a neuron to pass on its signal, would not be coined, by Charles Sherrington, until 1897.)
Pain Toolkit workshop For people with long-term persisting pain
APR 10, 2021: Pain Toolkit workshop For people with long-term persisting pain by Pete Moore