Episode 18 | Chronic Pain and Posture (With Jian Soares)

Join us for our next episode where we have guest speaker, Jian Soares, speak about chronic pain.

Jian offers insight into different ways of conceptualizing chronic pain and ways we can approach assessing and treating chronic pain with our patients. Jian also adds in some bonus tips for new grads when patients present with more complexly to their pain experience.

 

You will also hear some added tips on how to get away from bears (this isn’t professional advice, please take with a grain of salt). You won’t want to miss this one!

 

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TIMELINE: [0:00]: introduction [2:53]: what interested you about the field of chronic pain? [6:12]: what is the relationship you found between posture and chronic low back pain? [11:28]: what are some common myths about chronic pain that patients think that are true? [14:00]: what are some things that we should consider as student physios regarding chronic pain? [17:22]: is it possible that your posture affects your sympathetic or parasympathetic systems? [20:29]: how do you approach your patients and understanding their pain? [28:26]: how do you educate your patients about pain? [32:48]: can you give us an example of how to desensitize pain for a patient? [36:25]: what are your thoughts on functional movement? [40:35]: where do you look for some of the research related to this topic? [41:48]: what are your tips on how to assess patients with chronic pain? [45:01]: which Healthcare practitioners do you refer your chronic pain patients to most often? [53:21]: the question that makes our guests sweat...

 

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LINKS REFERENCED IN THE EPISODE: 

1. Pain TED Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLdIHjs&t=311s

2.  Understanding Pain in Less than 5 Minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3phB93rvI&t=133s