Interesting Facts About Your Back
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Interesting Facts About Your Back

The average spine has approximately 220 ligaments, 100 joints, 120 muscles and 33 individual vertebrae. Babies have MOREvertebrae than adults. We all start out with 33 individual vertebrae but most of us end up with just 26! As we grow older, some of the vertebrae with which we were born naturally, grow together to form the sacrum and the coccyx….

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) And Pain
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) And Pain

A core concept of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is that human suffering is caused by the influence of language and cognition (thoughts) over behaviour.  Simply stated – what you think and feel can dominate over what you do! To overcome the influence of language and thoughts, ACT relies heavily on the use of metaphor and experiential exercises…