# Introduction, Goal & Caveat ##### Untangling Pain --- ![](https://youtu.be/uqkQlx6iZb0) --- ## tl;dr **Goal of this training** - Help you understand what pain is - Talk about what influences pain and what you can do to help - Focus on things you probably haven’t thought about **My usual caveat** - What works for someone might not work for someone else - You need to find what works for you - If it doesn’t work for you, that’s okay -> It doesn’t mean you’ve failed -> You just need to find your parts of the jigsaw - You’re NOT broken! **Pain is multifactorial** - Pain isn’t caused by just one thing - Pain is really fucking complex - So many factors lead to pain - The industry often looks at just one part, which is why it struggles to fix it **Specialists vs generalists** - Specialists look at one area - That means missing the bigger picture - We need to look at every aspect contributing to pain **The positive side?** - It’s good that pain is multifactorial - It means there are many ways to help - Small changes in different areas can improve pain - We’re not just looking for one magic fix --- ## Transcript Hi, and welcome to this training on Women & Pain. This is part one. So the goal of this training is to help you understand what pain is because I've realised that most people don't actually know. I'm going to go through what factors actually influence pain, what you can do to help. And it's not what you can do to help that you've probably already done, but stuff that you probably haven't thought about. Before we go on, I've got a caveat. I've got a caveat on every single training I do, every single blog post I write. So, this caveat is that what works for someone might not work for someone else. This is so obvious and yet most people don't even acknowledge it. You need to find what works for you. Just because one research says something works does not necessarily mean that it's going to work for you. And if it doesn't work for you, that is absolutely okay. It doesn't mean that you have failed. It just means that, it's not right for you. It's not that you have failed. Sometimes it can feel like that when we're doing something and it's worked for somebody else. We can feel like we're broken, but that's not the case. You just need to find your parts of the jigsaw and put them all together. The one thing we need to know is that pain is multifactorial. This means that it's not just one thing that causes your pain. Despite what many people might tell you when they try and sell you a quick fix, pain is complex. It is really fucking complex. And there are gonna be so many factors that lead to pain. It's never just one thing. And this is probably why the pain industry makes so much money. It's why it's so fucking difficult to get rid of pain. Mainly because most of the companies out there, they're just looking at one part of it. I love this image, and I think it helps to describe how we can sometimes see pain. It's the difference between specialists and generalists. If we are looking for just one thing, or just one area, if we're only just looking at that one area, then we're going to miss the bigger picture. And again, pain isn't caused by just one thing, it never is. Which is why we need to take a step back, and we need to look at every single aspect that could be contributing to pain in the first place. The fact that it's never just one thing might appear as a negative, for pain to have so many different factors. But the fact that pain is multifactorial is actually a really, really good thing. Because it means there are a number of things we can do to help. It's not just one thing that we're looking for. It's not just this like needle in a haystack that we're looking for. It means that we can make small changes, in a number of different areas, and all of these little things can actually influence our pain and can improve it. So it doesn't have to just be one thing that we're looking for. We can look at so many different aspects of it. --- Next lesson → [[Untangling Pain – Module 1 Lesson 02|next lesson]] %% - [[My Usual Caveat for pain workshops and training]] - [[Pain is Multifactorial]] - [[Specialists vs Generalists re pain]] - [[The Positive Side of Pain Being Multifactorial]]