The Sciatica Podcast

May 11 2023 15 ep. 58 mins 77

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Interviews, stories and research all about radicular pain! By @thomas_jesson

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The mechanisms of radicular pain, with Annina Schmid [Repost!]

May 11 2023 54 mins

We’re still working on the cover design for our upcoming book Understanding Sciatica - a frustratingly long back-and-forth process with the designer that I wish I’d started much earlier…In the meantime, I thought I’d re-send this podcast that Annina and I recorded in September 2020. It’s still the most popular episode of the pod. Might nerve pain be the most interesting t

Sciatica Story with Harris Ashraff

Sep 11 2021 61 mins

Thanks for reading the 38th edition of my newsletter. This newsletter tracks my research as I write a book about lumbar radicular pain!EDIT - The sound quality of this podcast is quite poor - you have been warned. I will try to transcribe it one day.This edition, it’s my pleasure to bring you my conversation with Ash, a project manager from Chennai, India, who has a long history

Sensible Sciatica pt. 2, with Adam Dobson

May 23 2021 63 mins

Thanks for reading the 31st edition of my sciatica newsletter. This newsletter tracks my research as I write a book about lumbar radicular pain!Hi from San Jose, California, where I’m visiting the in-laws!Here’s part two of my chat with Adam Dobson, where we discuss neuropathic pain, nerve assessment, exercise and rehab for sciatica, and more! Find part 1 here.And here’s a fe

Sensible Sciatica with Adam Dobson, pt. 1

May 16 2021 55 mins

Thanks for reading the 30th edition of my sciatica newsletter. This newsletter tracks my research as I write a book about lumbar radicular pain!I must say things have been pretty quiet on the book front this week! In the time I’ve had to work on it, I’ve mostly just been wading through the literature. It seems like on any topic there’s really only a few key papers that give y

Sciatica story part 2 with physio and triathlete Kate Charlton

Jan 17 2021 45 mins

Thanks for reading the 25th edition of my sciatica newsletter. This newsletter tracks my research as I write a book about lumbar radicular pain!This week I spoke to Kate Charlton again! When we spoke last year, she was recovering from her second bout of radicular pain, getting back into her training and everything was going well. Since then, Kate’s pain returned. She chose to hav

Talking certainty, uncertainty and EBP with Raymond Ostelo

Nov 15 2020 43 mins

Thanks for reading the 19th edition of my sciatica newsletter. This newsletter tracks my research into all things lumbar radicular pain!This week I spoke to Professor Raymond Ostelo! Raymond recently published a fantastic review of the evidence behind the treatment options for sciatica (link should be open access). In our conversation, we talk about the evidence behind the conclusi

Tricky clinical questions with Mark Laslett

Oct 10 2020 48 mins

Thanks for reading the 17th edition of my sciatica newsletter. This newsletter tracks my research into all things lumbar radicular pain!For this week’s podcast I spoke to Mark Laslett! Here’s the timestamps for our conversation, with some links to one or two papers Mark mentions:1:38: On somatic referred pain.2:40: “Do you have a theory of what's going on when someone has rad

The mechanisms of radicular pain, with Annina Schmid

Sep 19 2020 54 mins

Thanks for reading the 15th edition of my sciatica newsletter. This newsletter tracks my research into all things lumbar radicular pain!Today I was up bright and early to attend Annina Schmid's online course on assessment of entrapment neuropathies. Annina was kind enough to talk with me afterwards for a podcast! Our conversation mostly focused on the mechanisms underlying radicula

Neurorepair and neuroplasticity with Giacomo Carta

Sep 10 2020 64 mins

Thanks for reading the 13th edition of my sciatica newsletter. This newsletter tracks my research into all things lumbar radicular pain!This week I’m talking to Giacomo Carta.Giacomo is a basic science researcher in neuromechanics, neurorepair and neuroplasticity. He’s also a physical therapist! We discussed his research and his hopes for the future of neurodynamics, nerve pain

Sciatica Story with Drew Jordan

Sep 03 2020 80 mins

Thanks for reading the 11th edition of my sciatica newsletter. This newsletter tracks my research into all things lumbar radicular pain!This week's podcast is a Sciatica Story with Drew JordanDrew got sciatica about one year ago. He was on holiday and tried surfing for the first time which seems to have triggered it, and he spent a lot of time sitting which seemed to make it worse.