Did you know that how you think about your pain can change the way it feels? And, the amount of pain you experience doesn’t accurately measure tissue health or necessarily equate to ‘damage’. Pain however is a mechanism produced by our bodies for protection.
Australian children and young people do not move enough each day, and this is particularly true for children with disability. There is no denying that something must be done soon to increase kids’ physical activity levels and sports participation. But how do we make the shift that’s needed to get children—particularly those with disability—to stand up and start moving?