Flare-up management
Kneed aims to help you develop and use treatments and strategies to reduce pain and prevent flare-ups but flare-ups may still occur.
Flare-ups can be described as a sudden worsening of your usual pain (people have lots of different names for these). A flare-up can also occur when you have been pain free.
A flare-up is often associated with more difficulty moving (increased protection of your body part), more stress and worsening negative thoughts and feelings about pain.
It is easy when you are experiencing a flare-up of pain to forget everything that you have learned and to see the flare-up as a sign of failure.
But, try to visualise a flare-up as a speed bump on the road to recovery. Try not to take off on a side road or become distracted by other potential treatments as this can make it harder to find your way back.
If you have already proven to yourself that you can improve with Kneed, you will find that you can always get back to where you were before you hit the speed bump, so long as you continue to adopt the pain strategies and practice the flare-up strategies.
If it is too early for you to have improved with this program, that’s ok, relax and stick with it, flare-ups can be common.
By adopting these Flare-up strategies, expect that
- flare-ups will happen less often,
- flare-ups will not be as intense and
- flare-ups will resolve more quickly
Our expectation is that a flare-up should start to resolve within the first 1 – 4 days depending on your level of sensitisation.
Course Content
A practical guide – teaches our REHAB method to treat flare-ups with a quiz to test how you can apply this to different situations.
Develop your own flare-up plan and it will be emailed to you to keep handy
