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TED Talk – The Mystery of Chronic Pain

by Jonathan

This excellent talk gives an understanding of how pain can become a disease in your body. And what you can do when the pain messages your body makes can become distorted – causing chronic pain.

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The Mind Body Connection – Pain Management 7

by Jonathan

This is the final piece in this talk – I believe the effect of a positive mental attitude when you’re managing pain is crucial. In the final analysis, you are the one who decided where to put your attention – onto the pain, or in another direction.

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Sleep Recovery – Pain Management 6

Another key aspect of managing pain is getting your sleep back. There is a negative downward spiral that occurs when you don’t exercise because of pain. When you don’t exercise you use less energy, making it less likely that you’ll be tired enough to sleep. If pain is making it hard to sleep, then you’ll [...]

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Exercise & Wellness – Pain Management 5

I’ve gone over this point in a previous article – keeping active is a vital part of managing chronic pain. This is because even very gentle exercise can produce endorphins – the natural pain killers of your body. This text will be replaced >Next Video

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The Pain Hotline – Pain Management 4

This is a vital concept in understanding a specific type of chronic pain. This is chronic pain that does not have an underlying physical cause. This can be: when you have ongoing discomfort from an injury that has healed when you have a malfunction in your pain system It’s important to understand here – the [...]

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How Pain Works – Pain Management 3

Understanding the mechanics of pain is the first step to realising how to control it. Because – and this is crucial – the hurt is not felt where the damage is. Pain is felt in your brain. And sometimes, the soreness can be felt independently from the actual damage in your body. What I mean [...]

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Pain Defined – Pain Management 2

I believe that it’s important to understand a condition before you can control it. And to understand something, you first need to define it. So here’s an explanation of what pain is. It’s an explanation that I think will help you. Pain = unpleasant sensation + negative emotion Once you  understand the two components of [...]

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Do You Really Want No Pain? Pain Management Talks 1 (with Bollywood Backing Track)

If you do hear some strange music playing in the background for this video – it’s not actually part of my presentation! Outside the hall where I did the talk, there was some type of dancing band outside with lively Bollywood music. There’s not much I could do about that, though it does add a [...]

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Do Bulging Discs Cause Chronic Back Pain?

Thanks…this is some great info. my main problem is that I’m also coupled with some type of chronic fatigue and 2 bulging discs in my lower back I’ve been battling for the last 13yrs or so which has limited my activity and everything only seems to be getting worse. I’m getting no help from doctors [...]

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Why Trigger Points Aren’t (and May Never Be) Hard Science

In this audio, I discuss where trigger points fit into the broader context of pain management. Firstly, we go over the different types of pain – nerve, organ & muscle pain. 3 minutes – how to diagnose trigger point pain. 6:30 minutes – how to track down trigger points. 8:30 minutes – trigger points and [...]

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