In this insightful episode of 'It's Not In Your Head' podcast, Dan and Justine discuss the concept of managing chronic pain through political analogies—left wing, right wing, and centrist approaches. 

In this episode of 'It's Not In Your Head,' Dan and Justine discuss the intricacies of managing chronic pain, highlighting the importance of having difficult conversations between patients, caregivers, and medical providers.

In this episode of 'It's Not In Your Head' podcast, Dan and Justine discuss strategies to manage feelings of overwhelm often experienced by chronic pain patients.

In this episode of 'It's Not In Your Head', Dan and Justine delve into the complex relationship between hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and central sensitization, focusing on hEDS as an example of a metabolic driver.

Understanding CRPS, Central Sensitization & Neuromodulation | Q&A with Dan and Justine

In this episode of 'It's Not In Your Head' podcast, Dr. Dan Bates and Justine dive deep into the intricacies of central sensitization and neuroinflammation in chronic pain. They discuss the philosophical challenges in current pain management approaches, focusing on understanding the drivers behind neuroinflammation.

Strategic Empathy: Handling Chronic Pain and Invisible Illnesses

In this episode of 'It's Not In Your Head' podcast, Dan and Juz explore the myriad of challenges and strategies around traveling with chronic pain.

In this episode of 'It's Not In Your Head' podcast, Dan and Juz delve into effective strategies for managing complex chronic pain for both patients and providers. The conversation is sparked by Dan's experience at a recent patient-focused conference, where problematic suggestions about managing doctor-patient conflicts arose.

In this episode of 'It's Not In Your Head' podcast, hosts Dr. Dan Bates and Justine Feitelson discuss nociceptive pain, also known as body part pain. The episode delves into their Nociceptive Pain Algorithm, breaking down the different types of somatic pain, including mechanical, inflammatory, myofascial, bony, and vascular pain.

In this Pt. 2 of sleep episode, Dan and Juz cover the conservative measures around improving your sleep, particularly if you struggle with insomnia, or painsomnia, as many pain patients refer to the challenge of falling asleep. 

Dan and Juz dive into the significant relationship between pain and sleep, and how it drives sensitization. They cover sleep basics, how lack of it long-term negatively impacts patients cognitively, and share a helpful analogy you can use as a patient to better explain what chronic pain feels like - especially with regards to increasing buckets of central sensitization.

In this podcast episode, Dan and Juz explore the concept of pacing and give it a bit of a re-brand, going through their structure and personal examples to learn how to break down managing your timing, tasks and tolerance more effectively so you can reclaim activities and passions pain may have limited. 

In this podcast episode, Dan and Juz explore an at-a-glance, step-by-step approach to managing patients with lower back pain. They begin with busting some significant yet persistent myths when it comes to patient recovery, and continue the conversation by identifying key patient concerns, focusing on red flags and understanding their ability to cope.

Dan and Justine dive into the basics of conservative pain management, covering the starting points of her MARSMethod and where you need to begin as a patient no matter what types of chronic pain you have.

In this episode, Justine and Dan go over a number of different assessments tools you can use to define what types of pain you have, what amplifiers may be playing a role, and how symptoms are affecting you functionally.

Dan and Juz cover the neuropathic pain algorithm, taking you through first through fourth line treatment options from most to least conservative. They cover trialing and combining various medications including opioids, topicals for focal areas of pain, and various interventional options all the way up to neuromodulation (peripheral or spinal cord stimulators), and pain pumps.

In this episode, Dan and Juz focus on the importance of communicating and assessing pain through the use of pain diagrams, which help both clinicians and patients gain insights into the sources and amplification of their presentation.

Agency is crucial as a chronic pain patient - especially when you feel most helpless and scared with pain at its worst. Flares are always difficult to navigate, but they don't have to make you feel so helpless and reactive. What are the phases of a flare, and how can you manage each one? This episode is a critical resource to learn how to identify and sooner recognize your own flare patterns so you end up in 'the hole' less, and can navigate your way out more effectively when it does happen.

In this episode, Dan and Justine break down how they each set goals and manage expectations with their patients. We dive into why your 'why' matters, how to connect your purpose to your plan, create discipline, tap into motivation, identify your purpose and cultivate confidence, so patients can better tie their actions to their goals and create long-term progress. This episode aims to help patients improve communication and have more effective appointments with their clinicians, and clinicians link their interventions to the goals of the patient in a more compelling way to improve buy-in.