Welcome to It’s Not in Your Head Podcast

with Dr. Dan Bates and Justine Feitelson

Dan is a Sports Physician, and Justine a Pain Coach and patient. We’ve come together to find ways to manage complex pain better for both patients and providers.

“You are not imagining pain.

It is not in your head.

But understanding what is happening, can make it better”

The current explanations of chronic pain typically include two main aspects that make it difficult for the patient and provider to most effectively work together. There are multiple better ways to think about pain we’ll dive into on the podcast.

Learn more

The challenge of chronic pain is deciphering how much is due to amplifiers, contributors, identifiable causes and past experiences - and what specific types of pain are contributing to the output of someones symptoms.

Listen to episodes!

There’s a lot of information on pain. A lot of procedures and interventions. A how many billion dollar fitness/movement industry… Yet here we are, with over 50 million people a year in chronic pain in America alone despite all these advancements. Why despite all this additional information are we not getting better outcomes with chronic pain patients?

The answer is the system we all operate in. Education and access is critical to provide the proper context for various treatments and awareness on the physician side around how complex presentations present and how to best investigate them given the inherent diagnostic and therapeutic limitations.

Dan is an expert on diagnosis and breaking down complex pain, procedures and physiology. Justine is an expert in the complimentary movement and lifestyle medicine pieces that round out a comprehensive pain management program and make up her MARSMethod. She knows what it’s like to live in constant pain with challenging pathologies. Together, we’ll teach you all the pieces to an unbiased, multi-disciplinary approach to better manage complex pain - and help you build your own “pain puzzle” to solve the pieces you can.

Pain science can understandably come across very offensive to patients…But it’s not if certain assumptions aren’t made. If you can gets physicians and patients from no longer accepting chronic pain as simply a misinterpretation of a signal, you can stop invalidating patients’ experiences, and actually get to the sources of symptoms.

The concepts we’ll teach on INiYH can be life changing if implemented in ways that address the nuance and individual nature of pain. By exposing the patterns and breaking away from industry biases, we can impact physician attitudes and treat the chronic pain much more effectively.