Inside My Treatment Room: What Really Happens in a Chronic Pain Session

🎙️ Episode 33 — Inside My Treatment Room: What Really Happens in a Chronic Pain SessionA neuroscientist predicted who would develop chronic pain with 85% accuracy — by scanning brains, not backs. In this solo episode, Gary takes you behind the door of his treatment room and shows you what chronic pain really is, why most scans don't explain it, and what actually works.🗣️ Solo Episode — Gary Chen, physiotherapist and founder of GC Integrative Physiotherapy & Wellness on the Gold Coast.🧠 What You'll Learn🔬 Why 90% of low back pain has NO identifiable specific cause🧬 How Pain Reprocessing Therapy made 66% of patients pain-free in 4 weeks (JAMA Psychiatry 2022)🧠 Why brain scans predict chronic pain better than back scans (Mansour 2013)🔄 The fear-avoidance loop that turns acute pain into chronic pain🏋️ Why movement is medicine — Cochrane evidence🇦🇺 The Australian RESTORE trial — $5,276 saved per patient with integrated CFT (Lancet 2023)🧘 Why breath comes before movement🗣️ How the words about your body change what your brain feels🚫 Why NICE guidelines now reject opioids for chronic primary pain✨ Systems discussedTao Te Ching • Traditional Chinese Medicine (Qi stagnation) • Pain Reprocessing Therapy • Cognitive Functional Therapy • Pain neuroscience education👨‍⚕️ Hosted by Gary, 緒蓮 ChenPhysiotherapist | Founder, GC Integrative Physiotherapy & Wellness | Gold Coast🌐 gcintegrative.com📸 Instagram @garyrockhide🎬 YouTube /@gcintegrative📚 Books at gcintegrative.com/books🌴 Amazon Author Page🎙️ Apple Podcasts: The Wellness BridgeTogether!! We find balance in ONE!!!⚠️ For general education only. Not medical advice. Audio and video produced with AI-assisted tools. Reviewed by Gary Chen for clinical accuracy.