Back in June, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Physical Therapy NEXT Exposition Conference on the topic of nutrition and its implication for musculoskeletal pain. It was a lot of fun and I spoke to a sold out room of about 600 physical therapists who were excited and really impassioned about learning how they can integrate nutrition into their practice. I want to thank everyone who attended and provided such positive feedback to the APTA about my presentation and my talk. I’m forever grateful to you. As many of you have inquired via email and through my Facebook page, yes, I am a building a continue education course specifically on this topic. If you’re a physical therapist or a chiropractor or a physician or anyone else interested in learning more about how nutrition can impact and change the course of chronic pain, make sure to go the Integrative Pain Science Institute website, www.IntegrativePainScienceInstitute.com. You can sign up for the mailing list there and stay connected to all that I have going on. I have a number of courses coming out on a variety different topics related to chronic pain. You can also go to my website at DrJoeTatta.com and click on the Practitioners tab in the top Menu.
While I was at the conference, I also brought along my podcast equipment and I had the opportunity to interview two great physical therapists on really important topics. The first one, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Lisa Saladin who is the Vice President of the American Physical Therapy Association. I spoke with Dr. Saladin about the societal issue of non-communicable diseases on a topic that really greatly interests me since nutrition can have such a dramatic impact on diseases such as diabetes and obesity. We covered which non-communicable diseases physical therapists can have the most opportunity to treat and change in the communities in which they live in practice, and the notion of chronic pain as a non-communicable disease and how much attention that either gets or does not get in our greater healthcare system. It was a great topic, I love talking to Dr. Saladin about this. It’s an interview I enjoyed very much. It’s great to see the physical therapy profession talking more about how we can play an active role in preventing and treating chronic disease. I want to thank Dr. Saladin for joining the podcast and of course, the APTA for setting this interview up.
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My next guest is the author of Battle for Grace: A Memoir of Pain, Redemption and Impossible Love. Cynthia Toussaint serves as a spokesperson at For Grace and has had complex regional pain syndrome or CRPS for the past 35 years which later developed into fibromyalgia and overlapping autoimmune disease. Cynthia founded For Grace in 2002 to raise awareness about CRPS and later expanded the organization's mission to include all women in pain. Before becoming ill, she was an accomplished ballerina and worked professionally as a dancer, actor, and singer. Today, she's a leading advocate for women in pain, raising awareness through local, national and worldwide media as well as public speaking. Her work has personified what it's like to be a woman who lives with pain, beyond this treatment of pain, and the gender bias toward women who suffer with chronic pain type syndromes.
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Gina Ryan is the host of the Top 50 iTunes podcast called The Anxiety Coaches Podcast. She’s also a nutritionist who, herself, struggled with stress, anxiety, and panic for over twenty years. On her own, prior to the internet, prior to all these influx of information, she was able to climb out of her own anxiety and heal herself naturally, and now teaches thousands of others how to do the same. She’s here today to help us get out of this cycle of anxiety that so often goes with chronic pain we struggle with.
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Here on the podcast today is Tricia Nelson. She lost 50 pounds by identifying and healing the underlying causes of her emotional eating. She spent 30 years researching the hidden causes of the addictive personality. She's an Emotional Eating Expert and the author of the number one bestselling book, Heal Your Hunger: 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now. She's also the host of a popular podcast called Heal Your Hunger, which is a great name of a show. This is the Healing Pain Podcast but today, we're talking about how to heal your hunger and stop the cycle of emotional eating.
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Summer Bock is a Trained Herbalist and Master Fermentationist, here with us today on the podcast to discuss how you can rebuild your gut with fermented foods. Her mission is for everyone to have stellar health by naturally healing their digestion using herbs, ferments and of course, food. She has a background of Microbiology and Pre-Med, which has given her the perfect skill set for integrating modern research into the modern microbiome. What I love the most about Summer Bock is that she’s a true innovator. When you look at her website, when you look at her training courses, when you look at her products and programs, for both those who are looking to improve their gut health as well as practitioners looking to learn more, you'll realize that the contents she prepared is so innovative and so unique. That’s why I had to have her on the Healing Pain Podcast.
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In 2002, the American Physical Therapy Association House of Delegates adopted a resolution that stated, “Physical therapists participate in and make a unique contribution as individuals or members of the primary care team.” In recent years, there's been a growing interest in the role of physical therapist and primary care. The notion of physical therapy and primary care is not new though. In fact, the United States Army has utilized physical therapists as primary care providers since 1971. As well, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California has similarly utilized physical therapists in a primary care role and the interest continues to grow as we move forward and treat people with pain.
Here to discuss the role of physical therapy and primary care is Dr. Bill Boissonnault, who is the Executive Vice President of Professional Affairs for the American Physical Therapy Association. Recently, he was a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In his career, he has earned both a Doctorate of Health Science degree, as well as a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. He's published numerous articles related to patient direct access and has consulted with more than 70 hospitals and clinics regarding the implementation of direct access into physical therapy practice.
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Upwards of 50% of those diagnosed with chronic pain also receive a diagnosis of depression. Along with this diagnosis, they are frequently prescribed a narcotic painkiller, for the pain of course, and an SSRI medication for the treatment of their depression. The question we ask on today's podcast: Is this a wise pharmaceutical combination, and are SSRIs effective for treating the depression that often accompanies chronic pain?
Joining us today is Dr. Kelly Brogan, who is a Manhattan-based Holistic Women's Health Psychiatrist, author of the New York Times Bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, and co-editor of the Landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She's Board Certified in Psychiatry, Somatic Medicine and Integrative Holistic Medicine and specializes in a root cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms.
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If you have followed this podcast and studied pain for any period of time, you know that pain has sensory, cognitive and affective components. The sensory component is of course the thing that is the most obvious. It’s what you feel on your body. It’s the aching, the burning, the sharpness, the stabbing. The cognitive components is what you think about pain, what the cause of your pain is and whether or not you believe it’s temporary or permanent, controllable or curable. The affective component consists of your feelings and emotions about pain: fear, worry, anger, anxiety, guilt. In order to eliminate chronic pain, all the components need to be addressed and treated. The ways in which people think about their pain and their feelings are connected and have a great impact on the severity of pain and your ability to completely reverse it.
Joining me on the podcast this week is Alan Gordon, who is a Psychotherapist and the Director of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles. He’s also an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California, has authored publications on the treatment of chronic pain and has presented on the topic of pain at many conferences and trainings throughout the nation.
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At the time of this podcast recording it’s summer in the United States and no doubt many people are out enjoying all sorts of activities including sports, exercise and hopefully running around playing with kids. I know that some of those people might also be sitting it out or perhaps taking it a bit easy because they have tendon pain and despite all sorts of treatment, they have yet to find a solution. If you have any kind of tendinitis or tendinopathy in your knee, ankles, shoulder, elbow, my next guest may have the answer to solving your tendon pain once and for all. Joining me today is Dr. Ebonie Rio. She has a Master’s Degree in Physiotherapy and completed her PhD in Neuroscience where she studied in-depthly the health and pathology of tendon as well as how the central nervous system and motor control might change in individuals with tendinopathy. She’s a practicing clinician as well as a research fellow at the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.
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This week we are talking about how to heal autoimmune disease naturally. The incidence of autoimmune disease has tripled in the last few decades. No one knows that more than those who struggle with chronic pain. The immune system is your first line of defense against things like bacteria and viruses, things that are invading your body. In some people, something goes wrong. Autoimmunity can develop into some of the most common types of diseases that we see in today's medicine. Things such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, scleroderma, and Diabetes Type I. Often, people describe autoimmune disease as your body is attacking itself. I want to take a couple of moments just to help reframe this thought so we enter this podcast today in a really mindful way.
To speak with us further today and go deeper on every level of this topic is an expert. Her name is Dr. Amy Myers. She's a Functional Medicine physician and a two-time New York bestselling author of The Autoimmune Solution and The Thyroid Connection. She's the Founder and Medical Director of Austin Ultra Health, a Functional Medicine clinic that treats patients all over the world. She has helped thousands recover from chronic illness through her dietary based program called The Myers Way.
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Alleviating pain and its associated suffering requires us to go deeper into the awareness of what we're feeling emotionally, learning how we can welcome unwanted feelings and approaching this without even trying. When you look at pain from this perspective versus one where you have to attack the pain, triumph over the pain or win the battle over pain, a whole new world of possibilities begins to open up.
Here to speak with us today is Laya Raznick who is a holistic practitioner that uses massage therapy, acupuncture and pain coaching to help patients shift their physical, emotional and mental pain. There's a shift happening from right to wrong and good and bad. This polarity of thinking can take you in the direction of pain relief and eventually to a world without pain.
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If you followed the podcast for the last couple of months, you probably heard a lot about the brain, about the nervous system, about alarms in your head, about pain psychology, your thoughts, and your emotions. At this point you're probably thinking, "Dr. Joe, what about exercise? Where does that fit in? Where does movement fit in? What about all the information around biomechanics?" Here today to help us reconcile biomechanics into modern day pain science is Dr. Greg Lehman. He is a chiropractor and a physical therapist who has worked in clinical practice as well as conducted research in the field of biomechanics. He now integrates a biopsychosocial model aligned with a biomechanical model.
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If you have struggled with chronic pain or you're a clinician or a practitioner who treats those that have chronic pain, undoubtedly you realize they do, of course, complain about chronic pain and often things like tension and tightness, but there's another symptom that almost 90% of the time will accompany those that have chronic pain. That is fatigue. Fatigue is one of those things that we think about it as that feeling in the morning where you can't get up and going or your ability or your lack of ability to be able to be resilient throughout your entire day. I really am excited to talk about this on the podcast because I really want to boil it down real deep into what are the lifestyle reasons for fatigue and then what's happening on the cellular level and how can we help fight fatigue.
I have a great expert today, her name is Dr. Carri Drzyzga. She is both a Chiropractic Physician and a Naturopathic Physician. She's the host of The Functional Medicine Radio Show and she's written a great book called Reclaim Your Energy and Feel Normal Again.
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This week I have a wonderful guest on that is a practitioner. She's an occupational therapist. She also has a very interesting story about her own traumatic injury and how it really shaped her life not only as a person, but also helped shape her as a practitioner who helps people with chronic pain and other types of injuries. Her name is Phaedra Antioco. She's an Occupational Therapist and a Pain Relief Specialist. Like I said, she had her own traumatic injury and her own healing journey. Today, she's pain-free. She supports clients by looking at the whole person; putting all the pieces of the pain puzzle together and looking at things such as past trauma, lifestyle, daily movement patterns and really everything, which I think is wonderful in a holistic manner.
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If you followed my podcast for some time, you know I have a really big passion around Functional Medicine and Functional Nutrition. Oftentimes, the nutrition part can be the one piece that's missing from your pathway to live a pain-free life. I've gone near and far to try to figure out who are the most interesting and best people to speak to on the podcast who can talk about everything that has to do with Functional Medicine and Functional Nutrition. This week, we are going to talk to Evan Brand. He's a leader in ancestral health, holistic nutrition and Functional Medicine. He's also the creator of the website called NotJustPaleo.com. He's the host of the Not Just Paleo podcast on iTunes, which is one of the top 25 natural health podcasts available. He has been studying natural health and Functional Medicine for more than seven years. Today, we're going to talk to him about the infection connection, how having a leaky gut can lead to underlying pain and inflammation.
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This week, we are talking about a surgeon’s road map out of pain. When we think about pain, we think about chronic pain. If I asked you, have you ever had lower back pain in your life? Have you ever had neck pain? Have you ever had pain that maybe was in your right buttock or your left buttock, or maybe went down the back of your leg or to your calf? Chances are most of you would say yes to that. My guest this week is Dr. David Hanscom. He is a orthopedic spinal surgeon who wrote a wonderful book called Back in Control. It’s really a great book about integrative strategies for healing chronic pain.
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Many of you, as you're listening to this podcast, you're saying, "I think I'm getting ready to change my life. I want to start to move a little bit. But I still have this pain or this tension and this tightness in my muscles. What can I do?" Or maybe you're looking for a massage therapist but you couldn't find the right one and you're saying, "How can I maybe massage myself at home or work on my tissue tightness and my pain at home in a way that's easy, safe, and affordable?" I have for you, the expert today, who is going to deliver the answer to you. Her name is Sue Hitzmann. She's developed a great method called the MELT Method.
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Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles (paperback), and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions.
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Today, we are talking to Dr. Carolyn Berryman about the impact of pain on your cognitive function. Let’s start out with a question. Has pain ever affected you so much that you’ve had problems with your memory, or you’ve had problems making decisions, or you’ve had problems paying attention maybe in school or class or at work? Today in the podcast, we’re going to review what is cognitive function and if pain interferes with cognitive function or causes cognitive impairment.
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I have a really amazing guest. I'm so excited to talk to this week. His name is Dr. William Davis. You’ll know him as the New York Time's bestselling author of Wheat Belly where he changed the lives of millions by teaching them how to remove grains from their diet to reverse years of chronic health problems. In his new book called Undoctored, he goes beyond cutting grains to help you take charge of your own health. This groundbreaking book reveals how millions of people are given dietary recommendations crafted by big business, how prescribed medications are often unnecessary. That's something we talk frequently about here on the Healing Pain podcast as we talk about opioids. Last, how there have been unwarranted procedures that feed the hungry revenue healthcare systems that have become so large and pervasive in our healthcare system, another thing we talk about when it comes to things like injections and MRIs and X-rays for all sorts and types of pain.
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Dr. Melissa Farmer will share her thoughts on the role of learning and brain plasticity in establishing—and ultimately treating—the emotional memories that underlie chronic pain. As a form of emotional memory, chronic pain is perpetuated by counterintuitive physiological rules that distort how an individual perceives and interacts with the environment. Every individual creates a different “pain logic” to make sense of these experiences, and uncovering this logic is key in challenging these pain memories. Dr. Farmer will discuss the relationship between pain perception and the quirky mechanisms that establish chronic pain, how this learned association can drive maladaptive behaviors and beliefs, and how the controlled, therapeutic manipulation of emotional memory may potentially alleviate chronic pain.
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I have an exciting guest today. We're going to be talking about gut health and everything that's related to gut health. My guest today is Dr. Vincent Pedre who is a functional medicine physician here in New York City. We'll be talking about how to heal your gut as well as try to just keep it healthy and of course, happy.
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I am so excited this week to be speaking with Dr. Melissa Cady. She’s the author of a book called Paindemic. She’s also known as The Challenge Doctor, who is driven to champion the cause of living the antiPAIN lifestyle and minimizing the current paindemic that is so rampant today. With the help of her website, PainOutLoud.com, her dream is to deliver information that empowers and guides people with pain relief. Her goal, really, is to reach more people than she could in her practice, which I love that because it’s another reason why I started the entire Healing Pain Podcast.
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This week I have another really interesting, wonderful guest. His name is Bruce Langford. He works as a full time mindfulness coach, speaker and podcaster. In 2003, he became passionate about helping bullied children when he saw the negative effects of bullying in school where he taught. Bruce left the teaching profession and became a full time entrepreneur doing anti-bullying, respect and mindfulness presentations nationally and internationally.
The connection between bullying and mindfulness is clear. Bullying declines when mindfulness is prevalent. Bruce is also the co-writer with Brian Tracy of the bestselling book, Cracking the Success Code. You can listen to him each week on his wonderful podcast called the Mindfulness Mode Podcast.
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My guest is Dr. Amy Stein. She is a doctor of physical therapy and a leading expert at treating pelvic floor dysfunction, pelvic pain, women’s health and men’s pelvic health. She’s the founder of Beyond Basics, a physical therapy practice in New York City. As well as the author of the book called, Heal Pelvic Pain, and the creator of the video called, Healing Pelvic and Abdominal Pain: The Ultimate Home Program For Patients And A Guide For Practitioners.
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