What if everything we thought we knew about pain was incomplete?
In this episode of Healthily, I'm joined by GP, pain specialist and educator, Dr Barbara Phipps, to explore the fascinating and hopeful science behind chronic pain.
Barbara specialises in helping people living with long-term pain, including conditions such as fibromyalgia, using an evidence-based approach that combines pain neuroscience, lifestyle medicine and nervous system regulation.
We discuss why pain is always generated by the brain, how our brains can become overprotective, and why factors such as stress, poor sleep, social isolation and past experiences can all influence our pain experience.
Most importantly, we explore why chronic pain is real, why it's not your fault, and why improvement is absolutely possible.
This is a compassionate and empowering conversation that offers a very different way of thinking about pain.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why pain is always created by the brain
- The difference between acute and chronic pain
- Fibromyalgia, neuroplastic pain and chronic primary pain explained
- Why chronic pain is not "all in your head"
- How stress, sleep and lifestyle factors influence pain
- The role of fight, flight and freeze in persistent pain
- Somatic tracking and calming the central nervous system
- How changing your relationship with pain can be transformative
- Why movement, nature and social connection are so important
- Pain, fatigue, brain fog and other seemingly unrelated symptoms
- Practical tools that can help people begin to feel better
A final message from this episode:
💛 Your pain is real.
💛 It's not your fault.
💛 And it can improve.
Visit Dr Phipps's YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@bphipps576
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