At the moment we’re noticing that corona virus lock-down is really starting to affect people. There is more stress and anxiety about which is undoubtedly affecting mood in the day and sleep at night. This may of course be experienced on top of worry from living with a limiting condition, or the usual problems of day to day life.

The good news is that we can do things to improve sleep. Some of this is about following some simple rules and the other part is finding ways to put the brakes on a racing mind.

Taming the beast- a video by Professor Lorimer Moseley

A large part of pain management involves changing how we respond to pain, often by understanding what is really going on with pain and thereby changing our relationship with it.  In the video they point out that it is important to know what it means when someone experiences pain- for example does it mean that something bad has happened in the body (which is what it feels like) or is it just more pain.