This extract comes from a post by CPN member Kyle Ridgeway.  Kyle's work concentrates on opening up physical therapy to a more diverse range of positions, including the influence of areas previously beyond the scope of most therapists' thinking - engineering, mathematics and philosophy.  This post looks at experiential dimensions of pain experience, referencing the all too common experience of going to the dentist. Some people utterly despise going to the dentist. I get it. The face and mouth are a locus of sensory innervation, and a dentist’s tools don’t exactly exude comfort. The grinding, the drilling, the scraping. Someone else’s hands in your mouth. Bleeding gums. Mouth held open, … [Read more...] about The Filling – a blogpost on emotion and pain