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Interview Peter O´Sullivan with Karen Litzy

Interview Peter O´Sullivan with Karen Litzy
Karen Litzy interviews Peter O’Sullivan. She volunteers to be a patient with neck pain and Peter does a patient history with her. Great to see which questions he asks her, how he communicates with Karen. Peter explains that Cognitive Functional Therapy is not “talk therapy”, but “doing therapy”. It’s about exposure to fearful movements and giving control to our patients. He also explains why pelvic pain is not about ligament laxity, but more about tissue sensitivity.
4 Episodes 1h 9m
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Why Clinicians Resist Changing Their Beliefs About Pain

Why clinicians often push back when their beliefs about pain are questioned, how those beliefs are learned from childhood and through training, and why hearing a real patient's story can shift them where lectures fail.

10:09
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A Live Patient Interview: Unpacking a Story of Neck Pain

A live demonstration of how Peter opens a consultation, using Karen's own history of years of disabling neck pain to show how questions about meaning, context, fear and impact reveal the story behind the pain.

20:59
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Escaping the Pain Trap Through Sense-Making and Exposure

How the cycle of threatening beliefs, vigilance, guarding and avoidance keeps pain going, how sense-making and graded exposure helped Karen out of it, and how clinicians can use exposure to rebuild trust in the body.

20:45
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When to Educate and Why SI Joint Dysfunction Is a Myth

When to bring pain education into treatment, why experiential learning and violation of expectations come first, and why ligament laxity and sacroiliac joint dysfunction do not explain pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy.

17:56
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