Activity Ladder — Graded Exposure Treatment for Chronic Pain

Here you are going to come up with a list of activities that are important to you or necessary for you to do in your everyday life. These are activities that you will be working through during the Activity Exposure modules. Below are some examples of activities that can be challenging for teens with chronic pain—these are things that are good to practice during the Activity Exposures. There is also a box below where you can list other activities you want to practice. Once you have a list, you will add them into the Activity Ladder.

When picking activities, place them in the box on the Activity Ladder that best represents how much pain or worry that activity might cause. You can put as many activities as you would like in each box and you do not need to feel all of the boxes. If there is anything you aren’t doing at all, but you want to or need to be doing (like going to school, going to gym class, playing a sport), that activity should go near the top of the Activity Ladder.