Progressive medicine is all about focusing on health rather than disease. If we want to be healthy why not focus on what makes us well, rather than what makes us ill?
It is also about change. Feeling better than we do now means feeling differently from now. But to feel differently we have to think differently.
But nobody likes to be told to think differently, that's why change is so hard. This podcast doesn't aim to tell you what to do, that is rarely helpful. It aims to suggest an alternative way of thinking to guide you on your own personal journey.
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In this final episode dedicated to understanding pain we draw on what we have learnt so far to understand how a deeper understanding of the processes that contribute to chronic pain can help us to discover new strategies for dealing with pain. If pain is produced by neural networks in the brain what can we do about it? We explore ways of rewiring these neural networks to reduce pain.
To get the most out of this episode I would really recommend listening to the previous episodes on pain first, or at the very least doing the homework from episode 23 and watching Professor Moseley’s 20 min TED talk. You can find the link for this on my website, Facebook and twitter.
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6 Mar 2021
23: Pain (part 2) - Chronic pain
In this second episode about pain, we pick up where we left off in part 1 to further explore the neuroscience and philosophy behind pain production, and introduce the concept of neural networks and neuroplasticity, which may provide us with new ways of addressing chronic pain.
Although all pain is real, there are different categories of pain. Identifying these different categories is important as it may inform us of the most appropriate and effective treatments.
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26 Feb 2021
22: Pain (part 1) - Understanding pain
It is some time ago that I promised we would be doing some work on pain and so I figured it's about time we got started on the advanced class. This is the first of three episodes all about pain.
Pain is complex and incredibly difficult to manage, and many of the medications we use to treat pain are ineffective or have harmful side effects.
However, I believe that through a deeper understanding of the mechanism that produce pain it is possible to find fresh approaches to addressing pain, even when the medications are not cutting it.
In this first episode we take a broad approach to explore what pain is, drawing on emerging neuroscience, as well as considering evolutionary and philosophical perspectives.
http://cambridgeprogressivemedicine.com/episode-22-pain-part-1/
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