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Join Rob and I as we talk a bit about one of our favorite topics, pain:

• [1:05] Dan and Rob catch up, Rob’s healing shoulder, Dan’s training and the crossfit open
• [6:15] Introducing today’s topic – PAIN
• [7:55] What is pain and why is it important?
• [10:40] What the hell is nociception and why should I care about it?
• [12:15] How fear, anxiety and beliefs effect how much pain you experience
• [14:30] Some interesting research showing how your thoughts, fears and anxieties can create pain when there is absolutely no damage going on in the body.
• [16:35] Central and Local Sensitivity – 2 more reasons why different people experience different levels of pain with the same stimulus
• [19:33] How pain and damage are not directly related.  You can have pain without damage and damage without pain
• [19:50] Study shows majority of major league pitchers have labral and rotator cuff damage without the associated pain and disability
• [24:50] How your language used with your patients has a major impact on their rehabilitation
• [26:10] The enormous effect of placebo and equally important but less discussed nocebo effect
• [27:45] How the patient’s expectations about their treatment effects their amount of improvement
• [31:40] An example of how X-rays and MRIs can scare patients when the MRI results may not be the bottom line
• [33:45] Should we as therapists be throwing out our spine models?
• [34:45] A different approach on patient education and injury
• [37:00] How pain science is important for healing in athletes
• [43:25] The psychological toll of injuries in athletes and my own example of how your thoughts can perpetuate pain
• [45:55] How personality and emotion is linked to pain
• [47:35] What patients need to know about pain in order to rehab properly
• [51:35] Tips for personal trainers and coaches working with clients in pain
• [53:30] Tips for physical therapists to apply pain science into their clinical practice
• [59:41] Resources for …read more
  
  

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