The Pain Pod

Jul 16 2024 22 ep. 42 mins 37
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Are you ready to know what you don’t know about chronic pain? We’re shining a light on the good, the bad, and the very ugly about living with pain in Canada. No hype, no hysteria, just the truth.

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Pain Warriors

Jul 16 2024 28 mins  
Invisible. Disbelieved. Shunned. This is the story of their fight.

Part Two: Sex/Intimacy/Dating and Chronic Pain

Jan 12 2024 29 mins  
So, a sociologist with chronic pain walks into a bar...just kidding! But wait—not really! When it comes to dating with chronic pain, we often get the message to accept what we cannot do. But what if people living with chronic pain already know what they need to experience the love, sex, and partnership they desire? Listen to Mary Jessome explain how it surprisingly all played out

Part One: Back Pain with a little Sex

Nov 29 2023 37 mins  
Did you ever put on some Marvin Gaye for a little hanky-panky and end up screwing your back instead? Listen to Professor Stuart McGill talk about the world’s only research he completed with live back-pained couples and Avatar technology to discover how to have sex without triggering back pain!

How are YOU sleeping?

Mar 18 2023 65 mins  
What science has shown will blow your mind - maybe even enough to have you running for a "sleep coach". YES that's a thing so get in the know! Listen to a sleep expert tell you what you never dreamt you never knew about your own sleep—including how it affects your pain.

Are you a candidate?

Dec 19 2022 21 mins  
How much do you know about the role of physiotherapy for chronic pain? What can recovery mean? Nathan Augeard is on a mission. A physical therapist in Quebec, founder of Physio Connection, and PhD candidate at McGill university, he aims to improve how physiotherapy students learn to help manage pain throughout Canadian universities. WATCH or listen to our first audiovisual podcast!

Follow the science? Not if it's MME.

Sep 24 2022 45 mins  
As you'll hear by all the paper-shuffling Josh does starting a few minutes in, when he's searching for the origins of MME (aka morphine milligram equivalents), he comes up with 'a whole lot of nothing,' just as he says. Really noisy nothing! And those chirping tweety birds you're hearing in the background? Are they those clouds of Looney Tunes 'circling birdies' that twitter above

By the numbers: exploding bad drug policy

Sep 01 2022 50 mins  
Dr Nabarun Dasgupta studies drugs and infectious diseases in the Opioid Data Lab at the University of North Carolina's Injury Prevention Research Center. In the last several years, he's published groundbreaking epidemiological analyses that explode the myth that prescribed narcotics are driving the "opioid crisis." Dr Dasgupta says his passion is "to tell true stories about health

"Central sensitization": is it real?

Jun 17 2022 57 mins  
Lately we're hearing a lot about so-called "central sensitization" of the nervous system as an explanation for chronic pain. Is it real? Is it an excuse to keep people in pain away from treatments like opioids, or even to blame us for our pain? Today, Dr Andrea Trescot joins us from Jacksonville, Florida, with the 411. As past president of the American Society of Interventional Pai

When the body attacks itself

Apr 09 2022 37 mins  
Autoimmune disorders are complex, plentiful, often painful, and not well-understood. Maybe you've heard lately that "the body can't attack itself"? Wrong. Our inflammatory mechanisms—our bodies' built-in protections against disease—can go haywire and hurt us, with the disruption manifesting in at least eighty different disorders so far. Today we talk about the inflammatory proc

Malign US health policy set to re-enter Canada

Mar 17 2022 24 mins  
Should Canadians care that the US Centers for Disease Control is revising its 2016 guideline for prescribing opioids for pain? That's the question we put to Barry Ulmer, the long-time head of the Chronic Pain Association of Canada. Listen up! In 2017, we found out the hard way that when it comes to "the war on drugs," what happens in the US doesn't stay in the US. With Canada's pat