Getting rid of chronic pain | Ryan Wohlfert
The Lindsey Elmore Show
Lindsey Elmore
5.0 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to today's episode of the Lindsay Elmore show. More than 20% of American adults |
| 0:07.9 | suffer from chronic pain. It's estimated to be over 50 million people suffering with more |
| 0:16.9 | than 19 million reporting it to have a high impact on their life. In other words, |
| 0:25.8 | one in five people is in pain on the daily. The annual cost of chronic pain within the United |
| 0:33.8 | States is as high as $1.1 trillion, and it is the number one cause of long-term |
| 0:42.8 | disability in America. Most of the people who suffer from chronic pain syndromes are women, |
| 0:49.7 | and the most common form of chronic pain is low back pain, but 50% of adults worldwide suffer from chronic headaches. |
| 1:02.2 | Smokers account for 50% of people with chronic pain. |
| 1:05.5 | There's a close link between pain and poverty and obesity can lead to pain. Many Americans who have chronic pain |
| 1:15.5 | have on average 42 minutes of sleep debt per night due to their pain. One in four people with |
| 1:25.6 | chronic pain is diagnosed with a sleep disorder, and only 58% of people who take medications, including very strong opioid narcotic medications, get any relief. |
| 1:41.6 | Worst of all, there's a clear link between chronic pain and depression with more |
| 1:47.9 | than 75% of people with chronic pain suffering from occasional sadness or outright depression. |
| 1:59.8 | My guest today is Dr. Ryan Wolford. He is a certified chiropractic sports |
| 2:05.0 | physician and is certified in a very special type of chiropractic biophysics that helps to not |
| 2:13.1 | only rehab the spine, but correct the posture and correct it permanently so that pain signals |
| 2:23.5 | that originate in the brain and travel through the spinal cord do not end up sending pain |
| 2:30.5 | throughout the body. He also firmly believes that neurology and the brain are intimately |
| 2:38.1 | connected and that pain is not just soreness, but can be physical pain, can be anxiety, |
| 2:48.5 | can be risks for having chronic infections or inflammations and can also lead |
| 2:55.8 | to neurotic thinking because we are in pain. He teaches his patients how a poor outlook on life |
| 3:05.7 | leads to illness and helps them to correct with his pain to performance |
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