What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and Manukora Honey. Chronic pain affects millions of people, yet traditional approaches often focus only on managing symptoms, without addressing the root cause. Today’s guests share a groundbreaking perspective: that pain is created by the brain as a signal of an underlying emotional issue that needs attention. By identifying and addressing these emotional triggers, lasting relief can be achieved by rewiring the brain. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, we’re bringing you a special compilation episode featuring Dhru’s conversations with leading experts on getting to the root cause of chronic pain. Dr. Andrea Furlan breaks down the drivers of chronic pain and debunks common myths around treatment. She also highlights the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle in worsening pain and shares her unique, integrative approach to healing. Next, Dr. Howard Schubiner explains why chronic pain is becoming more prevalent and how it’s closely connected to the brain. He outlines why the current model of pain management falls short and introduces Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy—an evidence-based approach that has been shown to be more effective than traditional treatments. Dr. Schubiner also discusses how adverse childhood experiences can manifest as chronic pain later in life, and how we can retrain our brains to change our perception and experience of pain. In this episode, Dhru and his guests dive into: Top myths in treating chronic pain (01:05) Tier ranking of the top drivers of chronic pain (06:40) Corrective exercises for addressing lower back pain (12:36) Solutions, answers, and advice for lower back pain (15:33) Evidence-based alternative approaches for chronic lower back and shoulder pain (19:26) Do's and don'ts to prevent abuse of the body (22:51) Why back pain has doubled in the last twenty years (29:20) What pain in the body actually is (32:28) Why the current approach to pain and pain management is broken (35:43) The Symptom Perception Model and its effectiveness (43:00) Incentives that contribute to systemic failure (44:32) Why MRIs don’t provide a complete picture of pain (49:11) Adverse childhood experiences and their relationship to pain (54:45) Understanding how the brain generates pain (59:58) Final thoughts (01:07:43) Also mentioned: Full episode with Dr. Andrea Furlan Full episode with Dr. Howard Schubiner This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and Manukora Honey. Right now, get 40% off sitewide at Cozy Earth. From May 2 through May 4th, buy One, Get One Free viscose bamboo pajamas!! Just head over to cozyearth.com/dhru and use code DHRUP. Upgrade to the creamiest honey, packed with antioxidants and prebiotics. Just go to manukora.com/dhru to get $25 off the Starter Kit and boost your energy, immunity, and digestive health today! Sign up for Dhru’s Try This Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Drew Prode here. Millions of people worldwide experience chronic pain, and it's
0:05.5	heartbreaking. Yet despite its prevalence, myths about what caused chronic pain are pervasive. And the
0:11.6	traditional treatment approach focuses on pain suppression over addressing its root causes. So in
0:18.2	today's compilation episode, I dive into some of the most common misconceptions
0:21.7	about chronic pain with scientists and physician Dr. Andrea Furling. She talks about many of the
0:27.0	main drivers of chronic pain and the tools for managing it. And I also speak with professor
0:31.7	and director of the Mind Body Center at Ascension Providence Hospital in Sutherfield, Michigan,
0:37.4	Dr. Howard Schubiner,
0:39.0	about why we're seeing an increased prevalence of chronic pain and the clinically proven treatments
0:44.4	and approaches that he and his team use to pain management. But first, let's dive into my
0:49.9	conversation with Dr. Andrea Furlin.
1:03.6	What are still some of the top myths that you see that are out there when it comes to treating chronic pain?
1:04.6	A big one is that it's normal to feel pain with aging.
1:09.8	So a lot of people think that aging, getting older,
1:13.6	is like a synonym of getting more pain. And people make jokes about this. They say, you know,
1:22.6	arthritis comes with age. Everybody has arthritis and arthritis just gets worse. That is not true. That is not
1:29.7	true. Okay. So learn something. It's not because you're old that you must have pain or you are
1:37.0	going to suffer more pain. A lot of people, a lot of people, they have arthritis. You can see their
1:43.1	bones. They may look horrible. They don't have any pain.
1:47.9	So we all know this. Even in MRI, you see people, this has been researched done over and over and over.
1:55.7	The MRI people with, you know, who don't have any pain, like walking around and doing everything they
2:01.5	want. And they have heart, even disc her, even disc her excruion, disc expulsion, disc prolapses.
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