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.
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.
Brain Pain Doesn’t Mean “It’s All In Your Head”
Sometimes when people are told that pain is generated by their brain they take that to mean that it's all in their head. This is a common misunderstanding about the neuroscience of pain. Pain is real but… it’s more complicated than a simple read out of tissue damage.
Chronic Pain vs Acute Pain (What’s The Difference?)
Chronic pain is defined as "pain lasting longer than the expected healing time after an injury or illness". Unfortunately the brain pathways that get activated with an injury can stay stuck on and keep producing pain long after an injury has healed. The good news is that brain pathways can be changed and chronic pain can be resolved.
What If Your Chronic Pain Is A False Alarm?
I'm in week 2 of my pain reprocessing therapy training and honestly, it's blowing my mind. My highlight from this week is a deeper understanding of neuroplastic pain. The short version is that your brain can start misinterpreting normal, healthy signals from your body as if they're dangerous and create pain to alert you about the danger.
A Whole Person Approach To Chronic Pain
The bio-psycho-social-spiritual model of chronic pain acknowledges that chronic pain is much more than just a read out of tissue damage. Stress, trauma, emotions and relationships can contribute to chronic pain just as much as injuries and inflammation.
The Surprising Truth About What Pain Actually Is
This is the first video in a series on chronic pain. To start off this series I wanted to expand your understanding of what pain actually is. You may be surprised to learn that modern neuroscientists have discovered that pain is more than just a signal from your body about an injury. Pain is an alarm signal, created by your brain to alert you when it perceives some danger or threat.
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