It's Not in Your Head

Nov 28 2024 22 ep. 49 mins 4
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Welcome to It's Not in Your Head Podcast, with Dan and Juz. Dr. Dan is a Sports Physician and Justine a Pain Coach and patient. We have come together to find ways to manage complex pain better for both patients and providers. New episodes will come out bi-weekly on all major platforms.

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23 Sleep and Pain: Anchoring, the Rice Cooker and the Nappucino

Nov 28 2024 59 mins  
In this Pt. 2 of sleep episode, Dan and Juz cover the conservative measures around improving your sleep, particularly if you struggle with insomnia, or painsomnia, as many pain patients refer to the challenge of falling asleep. They cover external and environmental factors including circadian rhythm, as well as internal or behavioral variables that affect our sleep quality and driv

22 Sleep and Pain: What's Driving What?

Nov 14 2024 50 mins  
Dan and Juz dive into the significant relationship between pain and sleep, and how it drives sensitization. They cover sleep basics, how lack of it long-term negatively impacts patients cognitively, and share a helpful analogy you can use as a patient to better explain what chronic pain feels like - especially with regards to increasing buckets of central sensitization. Dan then de

21 Pacing: Flare Prevention & Energy Management

Oct 31 2024 58 mins  
In this podcast episode, Dan and Juz explore the concept of pacing and give it a bit of a re-brand, going through their structure and personal examples to learn how to break down managing your timing, tasks and tolerance more effectively so you can reclaim activities and passions pain may have limited. Effective pacing includes careful planning, task batching, and managing context

20 Lower Back Pain

Oct 17 2024 72 mins  
In this podcast episode, Dan and Juz explore a step-by-step approach to managing lower back pain. They begin with busting some significant yet persistent myths when it comes to patient recovery, and continue the conversation by identifying key patient concerns, focusing on red flags and understanding their ability to cope. For pain that is manageable and under three months in durat

19 Basics of Conservative Pain Management

Sep 26 2024 69 mins  
Dan and Justine dive into the basics of conservative pain management, covering the starting points of her MARSMethod and where you need to begin as a patient no matter what types of chronic pain you have. They go through the importance of and give specific recommendations around improving protein amount, fiber intake, hydration totals, sleep quality, and movement. Listen for action

18 How to Assess Your Pain

Sep 12 2024 40 mins  
In this episode, Justine and Dan go over a number of different assessments tools you can use to define what types of pain you have, what amplifiers may be playing a role, and how symptoms are affecting you functionally. Besides these validated measures, we'll also introduce our sensitization questionnaire so you can look at the information you pull out through the lens we've been l

17 Nerve Pain Management

Aug 29 2024 80 mins  
Dan and Juz cover the neuropathic pain algorithm, taking you through first through fourth-line treatment options from most to least conservative. They cover trialing and combining various medications including opioids, topicals for focal areas of pain, and various interventional options all the way up to neuromodulation (peripheral or spinal cord stimulators), and pain pumps. This

16 How to Draw Your Pain

Aug 15 2024 54 mins  
In this episode, Dan and Juz focus on the importance of communicating and assessing pain through the use of pain diagrams, which help both clinicians and patients gain insights into the sources and amplification of their presentation. The hosts go through many different types of back, leg, and neck pain, discussing how this information contributes to goal setting and tracking progr

15 Anatomy of a Flare

Aug 01 2024 49 mins  
Agency is crucial as a chronic pain patient - especially when you feel most helpless and scared with pain at its worst. Flares are always difficult to navigate, but they don't have to make you feel so helpless and reactive. What are the phases of a flare, and how can you manage each one? This episode is a critical resource to learn how to identify and sooner recognize your own flar

14 Goal Setting

Jul 18 2024 39 mins  
In this episode, Dan and Justine break down how they each set goals and manage expectations with their patients. We dive into why your 'why' matters, how to connect your purpose to your plan, create discipline, tap into motivation, identify your purpose and cultivate confidence, so patients can better tie their actions to their goals and create long-term progress. This episode aims