Pain Coach
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<p>Welcome to Pain Coach, the podcast designed to empower you to regain control of your pain treatment journey.</p><p>In each episode, Lachlan Townend shares inspiring stories from individuals who have overcome the obstacles of pain, along with insights from health professionals dedicated to helping you reclaim your life. This podcast offers practical tools and guidance for those who refuse to let pain dictate their lives or steal their dreams.</p><p>Pain Coach encourages you to find a health professional who acts as a coach—not a 'magic healer'—supporting you in your recovery journey. It’s time to step back into the driver’s seat and reclaim what pain has taken from you.</p><p><strong>DISCLAIMER:</strong> This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast do not constitute medical advice and are general in nature. You should obtain specific advice from a qualified health professional before acting on any of the information within this podcast.</p>
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Recent Episodes
May 31, 2026
Is Sleep the New Treatment for Pain? | Associate Professor Michelle Hall
Could the key to easing chronic joint pain lie in how you sleep? In this episode, Lachlan Townend talks with Associate Professor Michelle Hall from the University of Sydney's Musculoskeletal Research Hub. They unpack what osteoarthritis really is, why your X-ray often doesn't match how you feel and why myths like "bone on bone" and "exercise wears the joint out" don't hold up. Then they turn to sleep — why poor sleep doesn't just follow pain but can actively drive it, how cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) helps most people within weeks, often without medication and what Michelle's clinical trials could mean for the future of pain care. If you live with pain, or treat people who do, it's a practical and hopeful listen. Resources * Is sleep contributing to you or your patients' pain? Try Pain Coach for free and find out: Click here [https://paincoach.co?utm_src=pcmhpod] * Lachlan Townend on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lachlan-townend/ * Michelle Hall on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-hall-548627111/ * Michelle's research profile: https://profiles.sydney.edu.au/michelle.hall/about * Musculoskeletal Research Hub, University of Sydney (Charles Perkins Centre): https://www.sydney.edu.au/charles-perkins-centre/our-research/research-groups/musculoskeletal-research-hub.html * Musculoskeletal Research Hub on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/111559366/ * Online sleep resources based in cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (Sleepio): https://sleepio.bighealth.com/ * SLEEP-FIT Trial (sign up): https://redcap.sydney.edu.au/surveys/?s=AKTTJLD44NNMYMHK * Referenced paper (open access): Klyne DM, Hall M. Is sleep the new treatment for pain? Two issues need resolving before deciding. Sleep. 2024;47(6):zsae089. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsae089 Key Topics: 00:00 Intro 01:19 Michelle's path into research 04:00 Why her dad's pain started it all 08:23 From biomechanics to the whole person 13:04 What osteoarthritis really is (and why scans mislead) 19:52 Myths, exercise & weight loss 27:57 Why sleep matters in pain 31:14 Is sleep the new treatment for pain? 34:16 CBT for insomnia, explained 43:52 Inside the trials 52:07 Beyond knees: other pain 55:24 Where to start 57:23 One habit from lasting relief 58:20 Find Michelle Disclaimer This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed do not constitute medical advice and are general in nature. Please obtain specific advice from a qualified health professional before acting on any information in this episode.
April 30, 2026
The Strengths-Based Shift: Why Pain Researchers Are Asking "What's Right With You?" Instead of "What's Wrong?" | Prof. Niamh Moloney & Barry Moore
For decades, pain care has run on a simple question: what's wrong with you? Risk factors, deficits, pathology, problems. It's well-intentioned but could the deficits focus being making things worse? In this episode of Pain Coach, Lachlan sits down with Dr Niamh Moloney and PhD candidate Barry Moore from Curtin University to unpack a quietly radical reframe in persistent pain research: stop leading with what's wrong, and start asking what's right. Niamh shares the the beachside journaling session that flipped her thinking. Barry walks through his newly published scoping review in the European Journal of Pain, surfacing 79 studies on protective factors like self-efficacy, optimism, resilience and social connection, that help people live well with pain. Crucially, this isn't toxic positivity. It's not about ignoring pathology or dismissing what hurts. It's about refusing to reduce a person to a list of their risk factors and building care around the resources they already carry. If you've ever walked out of an appointment feeling smaller than when you walked in (or unintentionally sent a patient home that way) this conversation will change how you think about pain care. One problem in, a couple of solutions out. That's the goal. RESOURCES: * Free trial of Pain Coach: https://paincoach.co?utm_src=podB&N [https://paincoach.co/?utm_src=podB&N] * Dr Niamh Moloney on X: https://x.com/drniamhmoloney * Barry E. Moore LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-moore-006a24145/ * 📄 Moore, B. E., Schleidgen, L., Hang, C. P., et al. (2026). "Protection from Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Scoping Review." European Journal of Pain, 30(4): e70273. → https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70273 [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejp.70273] * 📄 Rabey, M. & Moloney, N. (2022). "I Don't Know Why I've Got this Pain!" Allostasis as a Possible Explanatory Model. Physical Therapy, 102(5), pzac017. → https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzac017 [https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article/102/5/pzac017/6535131] KEY TOPICS 00:00 — Intro 00:43 — Disclaimer & welcome 01:22 — Meet Dr Niamh Moloney & Barry — paths crossing at Curtin 03:05 — What is chronic / persistent pain? 05:18 — Why pain persists: the multifactorial picture 09:35 — Central sensitisation in lay terms 12:47 — Why "central sensitisation" grinds Niamh's gears 15:36 — How to know if your nervous system is involved 18:43 — Niamh's lived experience of persistent pain 20:34 — The "why" behind the wider project 24:46 — The allostatic load paper: "I don't know why I've got this pain" 26:14 — Confronting her own risk factors 27:55 — The beach notebook: writing down what kept her well 29:44 — CliftonStrengths and the leadership lightbulb 31:39 — From deficits to strengths: a research pivot 33:09 — Antonovsky, Holocaust survivors & the salutogenic model 36:16 — Barry's scoping review (European Journal of Pain) — 79 studies 38:25 — Strengths aren't just the opposite of risk factors 40:04 — What surprised the researchers 43:30 — Lived experience: how people actually use their strengths 46:13 — Strengths ≠ toxic positivity: validating patients first 48:56 — Why disability (not pain) was the chosen outcome 51:22 — Pain intensity work is coming next 52:43 — The decade-long wider project & future studies 56:58 — Building hope, not despair 58:18 — Advice for someone at their low point 1:04:04 — Where to follow Niamh and Barry
March 31, 2026
Nine Years To Be Believed: The Endometriosis Diagnosis Crisis, The Surgeon Allegedly Performing Unnecessary Endo Surgery & Why Pain Science Education Needs A Female Rewrite | Dr Millie Mardon (PhD)
Dr Millie Mardon is a pelvic pain researcher at Western Sydney University with her own lived experience of the condition. Diagnosed with endometriosis at 14 after years of debilitating period pain, Millie navigated surgeries and a complex healthcare system — and is now happy to say she is pain-free. That experience became the foundation of her entire research career. RESOURCES: * Try Pain Coach for free [https://paincoach.online/?utm_src=MMpod] * Millie's Research "I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now" [https://journals.lww.com/pain/abstract/2023/06000/i_wish_i_knew_then_what_i_know_now___pain_science.25.aspx] * Millie's Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pelvicpain_researcher/] * Millie's researcher profile [https://researchers.westernsydney.edu.au/en/persons/millie-mardon] KEY TOPICS: 0:00 — Introduction & trailer 1:25 — Why Millie devoted her life to pelvic pain research 3:12 — Millie's personal story: endometriosis from her first period 3:36 — The 7–9 year diagnosis delay in Australia — and why it matters 7:23 — The role of parental advocacy in getting answers 9:26 — Is a diagnosis the be-all and end-all? 12:55 — Pain-free for over 10 years 14:06 — What Millie thinks made the difference in her recovery 16:17 — "I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now" — her landmark research study 18:05 — The 4 pain science education concepts that actually help people with pelvic pain 22:34 — Where lifestyle fits into pain: sleep, stress, diet & exercise 25:40 — How a medical scientist ended up in pain research 27:24 — The influence of Lorimer Moseley, David Butler & Explain Pain 29:45 — What actually is endometriosis? 33:20 — Prevalence: 1 in 7 women, 1 in 5 with persistent pelvic pain 34:48 — Why is endometriosis still so underfunded? 40:09 — Surgery for endometriosis: what does the research actually say? 40:43 — The Melbourne surgery scandal (ABC Four Corners: Scarred) 42:05 — The real numbers: 50% improve, 25% stay the same, 25% get worse 43:26 — Ablation vs excision: which works better and why 48:38 — The danger of swinging too far — biomedical vs biopsychosocial 52:46 — Millie's current research projects 53:28 — The pelvic pain social media campaign for young people 54:39 — The EndoEd trial: pain science education before laparoscopy 56:14 — The big unanswered question: why do some people get better and others don't? 57:14 — Gut health and endometriosis: 97% of people have GI symptoms 59:50 — Millie's parting advice for anyone navigating pelvic pain
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- What is Pain Coach?
<p>Welcome to Pain Coach, the podcast designed to empower you to regain control of your pain treatment journey.</p><p>In each episode, Lachlan Townend shares inspiring stories from individuals who have overcome the obstacles of pain, along with insights from health professionals dedicated to helping you reclaim your life. This podcast offers practical tools and guidance for those who refuse to let pain dictate their lives or steal their dreams.</p><p>Pain Coach encourages you to find a health professional who acts as a coach—not a 'magic healer'—supporting you in your recovery journey. It’s time to step back into the driver’s seat and reclaim what pain has taken from you.</p><p><strong>DISCLAIMER:</strong> This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast do not constitute medical advice and are general in nature. You should obtain specific advice from a qualified health professional before acting on any of the information within this podcast.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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