Compassion is not just being “nice”—it’s a clinical superpower. Learn how inner compassion can transform both patient care and your resilience as a clinician. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: • Why compassion is a contextual wisdom, not just basic kindness. • How self‑compassion supports your regulation, quality of care,…
Clinicians often face the same pain their patients do—frustration, burnout, and doubt. Real patient stories remind us why we do this work and point to what really matters. If you’ve ever wondered whether the “next course” is the answer, this one’s for you. Follow for more insights and join the…
Why do bogus treatments thrive in pain care? Because belief can blind both patients and clinicians. A 2015 study shows how powerful cognitive illusions are—and why evidence often gets ignored. Our job is to challenge these beliefs and guide care with science, not myths. Follow @ModernPainPodcast for more insights from…
Fibromyalgia isn’t “just pain”—it’s shaped by stress, immune activation, and brain-body interactions. Research now shows autoantibodies, inflammation, and nervous system overdrive all play a role in pain, fatigue, and brain fog. Clinicians can help patients by combining mind-body interventions with evidence-based care. Follow Modern Pain Care for more insights like…
Making a big shift in how we approach pain often brings fear and doubt. But acceptance—rather than resistance—can be the true game-changer. Learn how this mindset shift opened the door to freedom and self-management. 👉 Follow the @ModernPainPodcast for more insights on complex pain care.
Chronic stress doesn’t stay in the brain—it rewires the gut. A new review highlights how cortisol, adrenaline, and microbiome disruption link pain with GI issues. Clinicians can reframe “random comorbidities” as one stress-driven story, opening new doors for treatment. Follow for more insights and practical rehab strategies. Follow the @ModernPainPodcast…
Many patients describe pain as a fight they can’t seem to win. This clip shows how the search for answers can turn overwhelming, even when hope for a “fix” remains. As clinicians, how can we better support patients caught in this cycle? 👉 Subscribe to the @ModernPainPodcast for more insights…
Migraine and functional neurologic disorder often look alike—here’s why. Stone et al. outline shared risk factors and a unifying lens: stress dysregulation + predictive processing, helping clinicians reframe symptoms without stigma. Follow @ModernPainPodcast for clinician-focused breakdowns and practical rehab strategies; Stone et al. review on migraine–FND overlap - https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf288
Feeling stuck in the fight with pain? Here’s the message every patient needs to hear: pain can change. The real shift comes when we move away from chasing elimination and start focusing on living better and functioning better. 👉 For more tools on helping your patients reframe pain and find…
Fighting pain made things worse. Acceptance gave him his life back. Check out Tom's Pain Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/322868775075097 In this powerful episode, Tom Bowen shares how chasing a cure for chronic pain left him anxious, depressed, and stuck. Only when he shifted focus—from fixing pain to living well—did real change…
This study by Kamper and colleagues explored what people with chronic back pain actually expect from physiotherapy. The findings? ✅ Almost everyone wanted exams, advice, and clear explanations. ✅ About half hoped for prescriptions or referrals. 🚨 And nearly 60% wanted to talk about problems in their life. Clinicians —…
AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and Perplexity are making their way into healthcare conversations—but how accurate are they when it comes to back pain? A new 2025 study by Rossettini and colleagues tested these chatbots against clinical practice guidelines for lumbosacral radicular pain. The results? None of them…
When we open up about tough life experiences, our bodies often respond in real time. Patients feel gut tension, chest tightness, or old pain flare as emotions surface. This is not “in your head.” It’s your body’s way of saying: your emotional life matters.
Mental health pros avoid the body. Physical therapists avoid the mind. This outdated split — rooted in centuries-old thinking — keeps us from delivering the care people truly need. It’s time for professions to meet in the middle: mind and body, working together.
Critics of Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) and Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) say they can lean too far toward a brain-centric view — and they may not be wrong in some cases. Our work and assessments need to likely sit in the middle and be able to help someone…
Most chronic pain care ignores one of the most powerful drivers of symptoms: our emotions. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Mark Lumley, a leading researcher in Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), to explore how unprocessed emotions, trauma, and life stressors can directly influence pain — and…
Most of us default to recommending 10,000 steps a day—but the evidence has evolved. A 2025 Lancet Public Health meta-analysis found that just 7000 steps per day significantly reduces risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, dementia, and depression. 📉 Compared to 2000 steps/day, 7000 was associated with: ✔️ 47% lower…
🔍 Go behind the scenes of Pain Practice OS and discover how this complete framework helps clinicians deliver structured, ACT-based pain programs in their communities. Whether you want to run individual sessions or group programs, Pain Practice OS gives you: ✅ An 8-session unbranded, customizable curriculum ✅ Step-by-step ACT-based modules,…
What if we didn’t wait for the system to catch up? What if 100 clinicians across the globe launched real, community-based pain programs—using skills we should have been taught all along? We don’t need more lectures. We need stories. Strategy. And bold clinicians willing to lead. 🧠 Want in? Comment…
I thought the letters after my name would be enough. They weren’t. The truth? If people don’t know who you are, what you offer, or how to work with you—it doesn’t matter how good you are. Marketing isn’t about hype. It’s about story, clarity, and speaking to real problems. 🎯…
Most clinicians stop at identification. They hand out a screening form. Check a few boxes. Maybe give a PNE lecture or a pep talk. But when emotions show up in the room? They retreat. 🧠 Psychosocial care is more than spotting problems. It’s having the skill—and courage—to help someone work…
We all say we’re “biopsychosocial”… But most clinicians stop at identifying issues—and have no idea what to do about them. Psychologically informed care isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a skill. A strategy. A commitment. And right now? Most of us are giving it lip service. 🎯 If you’re ready to…
Are you tired of surface-level solutions in pain care? In this episode, Mark Kargela pulls back the curtain on the massive gap in pain programming and why our current clinical education models are failing both patients and providers. Mark introduces the Pain Practice OS—a structured, mentored, and market-ready program to…
What happens when pain strips someone of their sense of agency, time, or even ownership of their body? This short unpacks a groundbreaking study by Stilwell et al. (2025) and explains why the field must go beyond the narrative self to understand real suffering. As a clinician, it also highlights…