When I posted recently on Instagram about throwing my back out and putting my flare-up plan in place my thoughts halted. What do we even mean by flare-up? It’s a phrase used so often but do people really understand what it means? And what the heck is a “flare-up plan”?! Let’s dive in …
My pain management programme defined a flare-up as being your usual pain, with the volume turned up to the maximum - not new pains or signs of a new injury.
Read MoreIt took until I was in my late teens or early twenties before the concept of a ‘boom and bust’ cycle became part of the pacing vocabulary, and although the idea was talked about theoretically that doing too much led to me doing too little, all that really amounted to was trying to make sure I didn’t fall into the trap of doing absolutely nothing on recovery days. Ideas such as baselines were still not in the picture and I was still clueless about pacing my actual activities.
In all I probably spent about fifteen years trying to figure out pacing on my own: no small ask!
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