How Do I Manage Chronic Pain In the Wake of Coronavirus?

Tell Me About Your Pain

Curable and Alan Gordon LCSW

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Chronic pain sufferers share their struggles with navigating Coronavirus anxiety. Kristin grapples with feelings of uncertainty, while Bethany has a difficult time cultivating a sense of safety during the global pandemic of Covid-19. Co-hosts Alan Gordon, LCSW (Founder of the Pain Psychology Center) and Alon Ziv help Kristin and Bethany calm their fears, and discuss how these anxieties connect back to the latest research on pain.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the first episode of Tell Me About Your Pain.
0:05.5	So it may seem like a strange time to launch a podcast since we're in the middle of a global health crisis, but it's actually the perfect time.
0:13.2	Stress and anxiety are huge triggers for pain, and I've heard from so many pain sufferers that the fear around the coronavirus is having a big impact on their symptoms.
0:23.9	My name is Alan Gordon and I'm the director of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles.
0:28.8	Posting this podcast with me is Alon Ziv.
0:31.1	Hi, I'm Alon. I'm a scientist and an author and I first met Alan in eighth grade history class.
0:36.8	Yes, Mr. Spllman's class.
0:38.4	Good times.
0:39.1	Not really.
0:40.4	That's true.
0:41.1	We were pretty awkward.
0:42.2	While I've never had chronic pain myself, I've read pretty much every scientific study on pain ever published, which did lead to a few headaches.
0:49.2	Over the coming months, we're going to talk about how to overcome chronic pain.
0:53.0	We're going to cover how pain develops,
0:55.2	the pain fear cycle, and all kinds of new techniques like somatic tracking. Also, we're going to be
1:00.4	talking to real pain suffer so you can see the process in action. Yeah, hopefully we'll even talk to
1:04.4	some of you at some point. We're really excited to be doing this podcast in partnership with
1:08.5	Curable. Yes, Curable is awesome.
1:16.5	Their approach like ours reflects a new understanding of what chronic pain is and how to fix it.
1:18.7	You can check them out at curablehealth.com.
1:20.7	So let's dive in.
1:24.3	We reached out to pain patients from all over the country to see how they're doing.
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