If you’ve been living with pain and searching for answers, you’re in the right place. This library of free videos is here as a resource to help you understand the science of chronic pain and give you tools to support your recovery.
Chronic Pain Video Library
Chronic Pain Essentials
3 short videos to help you understand what pain truly is, what keeps it stuck and what recovery looks like.
In this foundational video I cover some basic pain physiology, common misunderstandings about pain and what makes acute pain different from chronic pain.
Getting Pain Even When Movement Is Safe?
Your brain is always working to keep you safe. It uses pain to alert you when it senses that you're about to hurt yourself. Unfortunately chronic pain can make your brain overprotective. It can start to give you pain during safe movements long before you're actually going to get injured.
An Essential Piece Of My Pain Recovery Journey
In my journey of recovering from chronic headaches, learning to turn towards my symptoms with curiosity was a critical turning point. As I spent time being curious with my body, I discovered that I was in a constant state of tension and bracing. This lead the way to unwinding the fear that was the true cause of my pain.
How Pain Science Is Changing My Approach To Chiropractic
As I learn more about pain neuroscience and pain reprocessing therapy my thoughts around chiropractic are shifting. When it comes to chronic pain, it's not about tissue healing, it's about changing the feedback between the brain and body.
Catastrophizing Drives Chronic Pain, Here’s The Research
Research from Harvard Medical School reviewing the psychosocial drivers of chronic pain highlighted catastrophizing as one of the major drivers of chronic pain. The process of constantly thinking about your pain, focusing on how bad it is and feeling like there is nothing you can do to change it can actually increase the severity of your pain and reduce the effectiveness of whatever you're doing to treat it.
“Mind Over Matter” For Chronic Pain Maybe Not?
“Mind over matter” suggests using our minds to override our symptoms. Overriding your symptoms is unlikely to help your brain feel safer about what’s happening in your body. A better approach may be “mind in partnership with matter”
Real Pain vs Made-Up Pain?
I was working with a client with chronic hip pain recently and she asked a great question "how can we tell the difference between real pain and made-up pain". Check out this video to hear my thoughts.
You Might Just Have To Live With It…
After a year of constant headaches and many "alternative" treatments I decided to see what western medicine could offer. After several medications from my well-meaning doctor didn't help she said, "some people just have daily headaches that don't go away". Translation - "you might just have to live with this".
What Are The Ingredients In Your Pain Recipe?
The pain recipe is another one of my favorite concepts from "Tell Me Where It Hurts". Just like baking brownies, there is a collection of ingredients that get combined to trigger the brain's danger detection system and generate the experience of pain.
“The Pain Dial” One Of My Favorite Concepts
One of my favorite concepts from this fantastic new book by Dr. Rachel Zoffness is the idea of a pain dial. You can think of it as a volume knob in your brain that turns up or turns down your pain.
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