Learning To Rest When In Pain

Authors

  • Margaret O'Connor Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Keywords:

Feldenkrais, pain, movement, learning, complementary therapies, palliative care

Abstract

This article reports on the usage of a lesser-known approach - the Feldenkrais Method - in teaching people to cope with pain on movement. Even though undertaken as a small pilot study, there are lessons to be drawn in terms of the outcomes and feedback from those who received lessons in this Method. The value of incorporating the Method into a broadly based complementary therapies program, offered to those in receipt of palliative care, requires further exploration.

 

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Author Biography

Margaret O'Connor, Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Professor O'Connor, now Emeritus, was the inaugural Vivian Bullwinkel Chair in Palliative Care Nursing, in Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University Melbourne, a position she held from 2003-2014. Prior to this she enjoyed a long and diverse career in palliative care, in roles that have encompassed the establishment and management of mainly community-based palliative care services. Professor O'Connor has been awarded the Nina Buscombe Prize from the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria four times. In 2005 Professor O'Connor accepted the national honour of Member of the Order of Australia, for service to the development and establishment of palliative care services in Victoria, an acknowledgement of her 20-year contribution to palliative care. In 2018 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship, to explore assisted dying issues around the world.

Published

2005-01-01

How to Cite

O’Connor, M. (2005). Learning To Rest When In Pain. Feldenkrais Research Journal, 2. Retrieved from https://feldenkraisresearchjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/97

Issue

Volume 2 (2005): Choosing the Path of Least Resistance

Section

Articles