145: Explaining Pain as a Pain Psychologist | Rachel Zoffness
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"Has anyone ever explained pain to you?" Rachel Zoffness, PhD, always asks her patients this one question in order to bridge the gap between her patient's understanding of their own pain and what other health care providers have told them about their pain. On today's episode of Pain Reframed, Dr. Zoffness joins Tim Flynn, PT, PHD, OCS, FAAOMPT, and Jeff Moore, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, to discuss her new workbooks that she created to help bridge that education gap that patients have of their understanding of what their pain is telling them about their bodies. Dr. Zoffness wrote these workbooks...
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January 2021 Kickoff
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On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, Tim Flynn, PT, PHD, OCS, FAAOMPT, and Jeff Moore, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, discuss how to regroup and focus in 2021 on how clinicians can help their clients and patients during the global pandemic, by building up their immune systems through fitness, lifestyle choices and nutrition alongside social distancing and masks. They also talk about the rise of overdoses, the COVID-19 vaccines and how to move forward in 2021. Links:
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143: Pain Reframed: The Body Keeps Score | David Clawson, MD
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On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, David Clawson, MD, joins Tim and Jeff to discuss holistically approaching neck and back pain and spinal deformity, breaking down how Dr. Clawson has used that approach his field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Dr. Clawson categorizes the threats that patients are up against -physical and mental, then dives into the review of systems to inform and determine his plan of care. Dr. Clawson also discusses in depth how to transition from the physical evaluation to the mental or spiritual evaluation that plays such a large part of pain. Links:
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142: Dedicated Emergency Department Physical Therapy | Keith Roper and Andrew Pugh
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On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, Tim Flynn and Jeff Moore talk with Andrew Pugh, MD and Keith Roper, DPT to discuss their new research paper " and how this research affects their practice in emergency medicine. Links:
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141: From Bench to Bedside: Pain Modulation Research | Kirsty Bannister
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On this week's episode Liz and Jeff speak with Dr. Kirsty Bannister, a renowned researcher on conditioned pain modulation, about what we know, what we’re studying, and what we can look forward to in the future of this topic. Kirsty completed BSc, MRes and PhD degrees at University College London and and Imperial College before returning to UCL for a decade-long postdoctoral research position in the laboratory of Professor Anthony Dickenson. In 2017 Kirsty gained her faculty position upon joining King’s College London where she now runs her research group investigating the central...
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140: Racial Inequity in Health Care | Heidi Jannenga
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In this episode, Liz and Tim speak with Dr. Heidi Jannenga PT, DPT, ATC, physical therapist and co-founder of WebPT, regarding the difficult topic of inequity in health care for people of color. We discuss the problems of implicit bias, systemic racism, and the 90% problem in the PT profession. Heidi also provides some small ways we can all work to improve. Links: Some books regarding these topics:
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139: Art, Ethics, and Opioids
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In this episode, Liz and Adam talk to artist and educator Emily Lanctot about how art and pain cross paths. She discusses the ethics of museums accepting donations from families such as the Sacklers, who were largely responsible for the devastation of the opioid crisis. Emily also gives her insight on how to cope with grief, anxiety and pain through art and creativity. Links: Opioid Addiction Helpline:
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138: An Attorney General Fighting the Opioid Epidemic |Phil Weiser
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On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser joins Tim Flynn to discuss how trauma affects every part of your life. His own family history of trauma has driven his mission as the Attorney General to fight the opioid epidemic by first, stopping and listening to his constituents, then addressing those issues through lawsuits and opioid-related task forces. Links:
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137: Fifty Shades of Pain | Danesh Mazloomdoost
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On this week's Pain Reframed episode, Tim and Jeff are joined by Danesh Mazloomdoost, MD the author of and fellowship-trained and dual board certified clinician in Anesthesiology and Pain Management. Dr. Mazloomdoost discusses different chapters in his book that cover topics like how pain medications can cause more pain in the long-term, how people should view surgery to relieve pain and how powerful hope can be. Links: Get the Top 5 Questions to ask your health care provider here:
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136: Pain and Training in the Athlete | Chris Johnson
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Chris Johnson, MPT, ITCA, joins Liz and Jeff to discuss the unique challenges of treating pain in athletes. Chris worked at the world-renowned of Lenox Hill Hospital as a physical therapist and researcher. In 2014, he opened to provide unparalleled physical therapy and performance coaching for multi-sport athletes in the Pacific Northwest. Chris is also the co-founder and CEO of RunCadence LLC, which is an IOS app that helps runners apply step rate manipulation to their training. Outside of his professional work, Chris races triathlon at the amateur elite level. He is a...
info_outlineOn 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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