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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

#447 BITESIZE | How To Heal Chronic Pain | Dr Howard Schubiner

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

4.810.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

CAUTION: This podcast episode contains swearing.


Headaches, migraine, back, neck or joint pain, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia – they’re just some of the common causes of chronic pain, which is estimated to affect between a third to half of all UK adults, or just under 28 million of us.


Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my weekly podcast for your mind, body, and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my former guests.


Today’s clip is from episode 310 of the podcast with Director of the Mind Body Medicine Center in Michigan and author of Unlearn Your Pain, Dr Howard Schubiner.


Emerging neuroscience tells us our brains actually create what we experience in our bodies, through a process called predictive processing. Pain doesn’t come from the body part where it’s felt, it’s created by our brain, signalling that something needs attention.


Howard believes that in many cases of chronic pain your brain has created a neural pathway which remembers the pain and keeps you trapped in a vicious cycle. 


In this clip he explains why it’s not ‘all in your head’, your pain is real. And there is something you can do about it. 


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Today's clip is from episode 310 of the podcast

1:01.0

with Director of the Chronic pain is estimated to affect between a third to half of all UK adults.

1:17.0

And Howard believes that in many cases of chronic pain,

1:21.0

your brain has created a neural pathway which remembers the pain and keeps you trapped in a vicious cycle.

1:29.0

In this clip, he explains why it's not all in your heads, your pain is real and there is

1:36.7

absolutely something that you can do about it.

1:41.8

This idea that when we experience pain most of the time there's nothing actually structurally going on in our body, I think it's quite profound for people because I think we grow up with the understanding that if we have pain,

2:06.0

there's a physical cause of that pain.

2:14.4

What we kind of think is every time someone has pain that there must be something wrong with their body. And it turns out the vast majority of people of chronic pain actually don't have a structural

2:20.1

problem in their body. Most people with acute pain probably do. And if you break an ankle you want pain.

2:27.0

It's a message that your brain is giving you to stop, don't walk on a broken ankle.

2:33.0

But it turns out if you have a broken heart,

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