How to hack your brain when you're in pain | Amy Baxter

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Have we misunderstood pain? Researcher and physician Amy Baxter unravels the symphony of connections that send pain from your body to your brain, explaining practical neuroscience hacks to quickly block those signals. Her groundbreaking research offers alternatives for immediate pain relief -- without the need for addictive opioids. (Followed by a Q&A with TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:13.4	Today's talk made me laugh, out loud, even though the topic is an unfunny subject, pain.
0:19.5	Pain management pioneer Amy Baxter gives a surprising and delightful take on pain relief
0:25.3	from the Ted 2023 stage.
0:27.8	Followed by a short Q&A with Whitney Pennington Rogers, Ted's current affairs curator
0:32.6	after the break.
0:57.8	If you're unfiltered, authentic self at work, that's been the hardest thing for me is
1:03.2	trying to maintain those professional expectations.
1:08.5	Check out Fixable, wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:12.9	So if you whack your thumb with a hammer, you think pain is in your thumb.
1:19.1	Physicians have a more sophisticated understanding.
1:21.6	We know that it's an alarm that goes on nerves to your spine where it is translated to
1:27.8	your brain and pain actually happens somewhere.
1:33.9	It's a little vague.
1:34.9	We actually only get two days of pain education throughout all of medical school.
1:39.4	So in fact, the only pain lecture I remember from the 90s was in a dark room after being
1:46.2	awake for 30 hours and hungry and finding out our noon lecture was sponsored by OxyContin.
1:55.2	We got pens.
1:56.2	We got great lasagna and they had very cool slides that showed pains stopped by opioids.
2:03.4	And we learned that home opioids aren't addictive.
2:06.5	And if you stay ahead of pain, you can keep your patients pain free.
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