Dolorology (PAIN) with Rachel Zoffness

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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PAIN. What is it? Where does it come from? And how can we hurt less? Which hurts more, a kidney stone or heartache? Why does chronic pain persist? Can we turn down our pain dials? To answer these huge questions, pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness enthusiastically explains the brain, pain and how to retrain it. She is an unabashed neuronerd and a ray of hope in a field that is misunderstood, neglected and under-explained. A true life-changer of a person.

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0:00.0	Oh hey, it's that smoothie cup you should have washed yesterday.
0:09.3	Alliboard, back with an episode of Oligis, you will let's get into it.
0:13.6	Dolorology.
0:14.6	Dolor means pain in Latin.
0:17.0	Dolorology, it's the study of the nature and management of pain.
0:22.4	It's a real thing.
0:24.2	As it turns out, the folks who study it are pretty fired up about talking about it.
0:28.7	And it turns out a lot of listeners are like, I have questions.
0:33.6	So thisologist reached out to me, told me that her mission as a neuroscientist is to help
0:38.6	people feel better and I was like, well, how the hell can I turn that down?
0:42.0	So I happened to be in the Bay Area in October following my new husband's new knee surgery.
0:48.7	What's your pain scale and a pit scale, one to ten?
0:51.3	Four, three, four, four, four, four?
0:54.5	That's kind of a lot.
0:56.5	Three.
0:57.5	I'm not doubting you.
0:58.5	I'm saying that sounds painful.
1:02.2	And after we battled some Friday afternoon traffic, we arrived at thisologist's Oakland
1:07.0	office with Los Angeles style punctuality.
1:11.8	And then we settled into our couch to chat pain.
1:15.2	Turns out she knows her stuff.
1:17.0	She has long brown hair.
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