Part 1: Pain has purpose | Permission to Move

Structured in three parts, Permission to Move combines pain science with everyday clinical practice in a complete guide. Part One of the book explores Why Pain Matters.

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Pain has purpose. It’s a protective mechanism – a frontline defence standing between our bodies and all the possible harm our brains can imagine. This essential function endows feelings of pain with an incredible amount of power. We can’t ignore pain. It shapes our behaviour no matter how little we acknowledge or think about it. We respond to it instinctively.

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It’s a potentially life-saving shortcut – a way for your brain to parse thousands of years of knowledge about possible harm in a single moment then take swift protective action, without bothering your conscious mind with arduous analysis.

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Persistent pain operates under the same model as acute pain, but it often becomes over-zealous. This is when pain turns from a wondrous protective mechanism to something much more destructive.

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Read chapter one in full on our website.