It's Not in Your Head
Welcome to It's Not in Your Head Podcast, with Dan and Juz. Dr. Dan is a Sports Physician and Justine a Pain Coach and patient. We have come together to find ways to manage complex pain better for both patients and providers. New episodes will come out bi-weekly on all major platforms.
It's Not in Your Head
3 Pain is a Sound System
Complex pain is, well, complicated. Explaining it effectively can be even more so. In this episode, we go through Dan's metaphor to think about and better explain pain amplification, ‘Pain is a Sound System.’
We’ll talk about how the amplification process occurs, (Justine will interrupt us with some “wiggle time”), and we’ll introduce the different types of pain that play a role including nociceptive (body part), neuropathic (nerve) and nociplastic (sensitization) pain.
With central sensitization in particular, we’ll define the different symptom buckets and pull it all together, so you can actually make sense of weird symptoms and better understand complex pain. Pain is not in your head. It is a puzzle. Let’s begin to put it together.
Resources:
https://www.instagram.com/iniyhpodcast/
https://www.resilientwarriorcoachingllc.com/
https://www.drdanbates.com.au/
Timestamps:
00:00 Official Intro
00:17 Intro - thinking about and explaining pain
03:10 Pain as a Sound System
05:00 Pain is a Social Disease
06:05 Amplification
08:55 Breaking down the Components - 1st Nociceptive Pain
10:22 Features of Nociceptive Pain
11:21 2nd Neuropathic Pain - Nerve Pain
14:02 3rd Nociplastic Pain
17:02 Features of Nociplastic Pain
17:44 Sensory Hypersensitivity
20:49 Sleep Disturbance
22:10 Cognitive Dysfunction & Mood Disturbance
24:28 Dysautonomia
25:48 More Wiggles
29:59 Central Sensitization
32:34 How can we treat people?
35:10 Pain is a Puzzle & Wrap Up
36:41 Disclaimer