Pain Reframed

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113: Allopathic-based Practice| Dr. Lisa Holland Aug 29, 2019

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On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, Dr. Lisa Holland joins Dr. Tim and Dr. Jeff as she discusses integrating Eastern and Western approaches to healthcare. She addresses what's missing in western medicine and how eastern medicine can bring an allopathic approach to healthcare.

Join Lisa, Tim and Jeff as they talk motivational interviewing, changing general vernacular and addressing trauma at all levels to build resilience.

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112: Perception, Bias and Misdiagnosis | Dr. Kathy Travnicek Aug 22, 2019

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On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, Kathy Travnicek, MD joins Adam Ryan, MD and Liz Peppin, PA-C to discuss her own journey through the healthcare system when an ED clinician misdiagnosed a subarachnoid hemorrhage as a wine headache. As a pain management and rehabilitation specialist at Pain Institute of Nevada, fortunately, Kathy was able to advocate for herself and has now fully recovered.

Join Liz, Adam and Kathy as they talk through what went wrong in Kathy's experience, how healthcare professionals can better take care of their patients, and the pain scale.

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111: Build Hope with VR | Dr. Jeff Hathaway Aug 15, 2019

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Jeff Hathaway, PT, DPT, the CEO of Breakthrough Physical Therapy in North Carolina, joins hosts Dr. Tim Flynn and Dr. Jeff Moore to discuss his brainchild, VR for Pain Neuroscience Education. Since VR hasn't been widely implemented in traditional healthcare settings, Jeff Hathaway discusses his strategy for educating the public and other healthcare providers about the benefits of VR, and about how he made VR a reality in his clinics.

Listen in as Jeff Hathaway, Tim Flynn and Jeff Moore talk through how VR enhances pain neuroscience education, how other patient stories play a key role and the future of VR in the clinic.

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Jeff Hathaway: 607.227.6366

https://www.evidenceinmotion.com/

https://www.ispinstitute.com/

Summer Replay | 29: Caring Deeply and Dropping Your Ego with Dr. Peter O'Sullivan Aug 08, 2019

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This week, on Pain Reframed, Dr. Tim Flynn and Dr. Jeff Moore are joined by Dr. Peter O'Sullivan. Peter is Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at Curtin University, in Perth, Australia. In addition to his teaching and research at Curtin University, he works in clinical practice as a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2005). He is recognized internationally as a leading clinician, researcher and educator in the management of complex musculoskeletal pain disorders.

Tim, Jeff, and Peter discuss being authentic with patients and walking alongside with them in ways the medical industrialized complex doesn't. Peter shares his success story of deeply caring for patients for a long time and being willing to drop his pride and ego when the patient wasn't getting better. It's allowed him to learn, to grow, and to, ultimately, help patients so much more.

Don't forget to save the date: June 8-10, 2018 in Denver, Colorado, the Align Conference will be taking place, focusing on neuropathic (nerve) pain. All of the various concepts of calming the nerves down will be covered at this conference.

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Summer Replay | 28: We Have Ignored the Pain Psychology of Patients | Dr. Beth Darnall Aug 01, 2019

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This week, on Pain Reframed, Dr. Tim Flynn and Dr. Jeff Moore are joined by Dr. Beth Darnall, who is a pain psychologist, clinical scientist, and Clinical Professor at Stanford University. Beth has a focus on pain catastrophizing as well as treating some of the key issues that prevent patients from succeeding with other pain treatments.

Clinically, Beth provides psychological services to patients with catastrophic burn, spinal cord injury or amputation. Her desire to specialize in the management of chronic pain was inspired by her clinical experiences and by her own personal experience with chronic pain. Beth brings a wealth of knowledge to the episode as they discuss some key aspects to managing patients with chronic pain as well as altering systems to maximize positive treatment effects.

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Summer Replay | 9: How to Help the Patient Taper Opioid Addiction Effectively | Dr. Anna Lembke | Drug Dealer, MD Jul 25, 2019

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Welcome back to Pain Reframed! This week, we welcome back Dr. Anna Lembke, by popular demand, to discuss how we can specifically help patients to come down off of opioid addiction in a healthy and attainable manner that the patient can also handle.

Dr. Lembke describes her acronym: B.R.A.V.O. and how it helps providers to help their patients through the tapering process.

B: Brooching the subject
R: Risk-benefit calculator
A: Addiction happens
V: Validation and velocity
O: Other treatments for pain

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Summer Replay | 5: Drug Dealer, MD | Dr. Anna Lembke Jul 18, 2019

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Welcome back to Pain Reframed! This week, we welcome Dr. Anna Lembke who is the Chief of Addiction Medicine and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Anna is also the author of the powerful and eye-opening book "Drug Dealer, MD."

Dr. Lembke shares her professional journey and what led her to write "Drug Dealer, MD." The premise behind her book is extremely jaw-dropping and shows a very real perspective to what happens between Doctor and Patient in the medical profession and in terms of the opioid crisis. She reads a passage out of her book and she, Tim, and Jeff discuss just what that looks like and what we, as PT's need to do to fix this pain problem and help our patients!

On the other hand, Anna is not attacking doctors as she believes they are "trapped in the system" and she, therefore, has a great deal of empathy for them. Her desire is to help them to get them out of the bureaucracy in order to solve the problem for patients. This is a fantastic and intriguing episode worth your time!

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Announcement: Summer Break Jul 11, 2019

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Pain Reframed has some exciting episodes coming up, but we are taking a short summer break.

During the break, we will repost some of our biggest hits, and can't wait to bring you brand new episodes soon!

110. We Believe You | Keith Meldrum Jun 13, 2019

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We're excited to have Keith Meldrum on this week's episode of Pain Reframed! He shares his journey with chronic pain, what led him to the biopsychosocial model in particular, and how a simple statement changed the path of his recovery.

A civil engineer by trade, Keith has been living with chronic pain for over 30 years, after a near-fatal car accident in 1986. Years of surgeries eventually ended in being told that his pain was all in his head. Since then, he's taught himself about the biopsychosocial model and began advocating for it. He continues to speak out about the importance of pain science through social media, his blog, and other avenues.

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Twitter - @ISPITeam

Twitter - @keith_meldrum

Keith's blog - A Path Forward

Learn pain science techniques you can immediately use with your patients here

109. The Answers Aren't All in the Brain | Dr. Judy Grisel Jun 06, 2019

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We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Judy Grisel for a particularly emotional episode of Pain Reframed this week. She shares her personal struggle with addiction, the havoc it wreaked on her life and relationships, and what it was that eventually got through to her and convinced her to get sober. She also discusses how she's helping her own daughter avoid making the same mistakes, using techniques we can all implement, both in our clinics and in our personal lives.

Dr. Judy Grisel is a behavioral neuroscientist whose research focuses on determining root causes of drug addiction. She studies sex differences in the role of stress and endorphins on drug reward and works to identify innate factors that contribute to individual differences in the liability toward addiction.

In addition to being a professor and researcher, Judy is a New York Times bestselling author. Her book, Never Enough, uses her past as an addict to explore the neuroscience behind how drugs work, the changes they cause in the brain, and where we might be able to find the cure to today's addiction epidemic. It's a powerful piece that we recommend for all clinicians who work with current or recovering addicts.

Do you have a question for Judy that you'd like her to answer on another episode of Pain Reframed? Send us a DM on Twitter, post it in the Pain Reframed Facebook group, or email Liz Peppin at lizpeppinmqt@gmail.com.

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Twitter - @ISPITeam

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Order Never Enough on Amazon here

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