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All Episodes

The Pain Podcast — 80 episodes

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Episode 81: Dosing: How Much Is Enough? Finding the Sweet Zone in Persistent Pain

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Episode 80: Playfulness, Creativity & Variability in Pain Rehab - Why It Doesn't Have to Be Boring

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Episode 79: When Pain Shrinks Your World — How to Open It Back Up

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Episode 78: Reclaiming Agency When the Body Feels Like the Enemy

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Episode 77: Language, Metaphors & Pain: Why the Words We Use Matter

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Episode 76: “I Don’t Know” Isn’t a Failure: Uncertainty, Trust, and Clinical Confidence in Pain Care

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Episode 75: When Everything Hurts: Exploring Predictive Processing in Fibromyalgia

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Episode 74: When Assessment Becomes Treatment: Why the First Session Matters More Than You Think

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Episode 73: The Healing Nervous System: Neuroplasticity, Bioplasticity and Pain Recovery

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Episode 72: Year in Review 2025: Connections, Coaching and a Growing Pain Community

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Episode 71: Pain & Identity - Practical Ways to Rebuild the Self

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Episode 70: Sleep, Sensitisation & Relief: Beyond Basic Sleep Hygiene

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Episode 69: Catastrophising Isn’t a Character Flaw

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Episode 68: When Pain Persists: Reframing Success Beyond Pain Reduction

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Episode 67: Navigating Difficult Conversations: When Patients Want Quick Fixes

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Episode 66: Beyond Exercises: Creating Meaningful Movement Experiences in Pain Care

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Episode 65: From Frustration to Flourishing: Helping Patients Navigate Pain Setbacks

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Episode 64: Pain, Acceptance and Empowerment: Rethinking the Chronic Pain Journey

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Episode 63: The Hidden Connection Between Movement & Pain (CRPS & FND Explored)

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Episode 62: Functional Neurological Disorder: What You Weren't Taught

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Episode 61: Why patients struggle to make lasting change (And how to fix it)

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Episode 60: Unpacking nociplastic pain: Beyond damage, into perception

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Episode 59: Debunking Pain Myths: How to Counter Harmful Misinformation

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Episode 58 - Why Quick Fixes Make Chronic Pain WORSE

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Episode 57: Busted! Common myths about posture and pain

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Episode 56: Why taking a break can boost recovery from chronic pain.

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Episode 55: Time pressure in the clinic: how to do more in less time.

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Episode 54: Marketing V misinformation in pain management with Prof Cormac Ryan

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Episode 53: Is surgery for pain a panacea or placebo? Things every clinician needs to know.

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Episode 52: Preventing Chronic Pain after Injury with Alison Sim

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Episode 51: ‘You Can't Go Wrong Getting Strong’ Why this advice might be hindering patients’ progress with Tim Beames & Bart van Buchem

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Episode 50: Is uncertainty the missing key to pain relief? Mike Stewart

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Episode 49: The Mindset Shift: A new ecosystem for treating pain with Dr. Deepak Ravindran

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Episode 48: Fear and Pain: An Inside Look

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Episode 47: Organising the the greatest Pain conference in the world

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Episode 46: Context, diversity and culture in pain treatment with Professor Romy parker

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Episode 45: Luke Bongiorno - Athletes and pain

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Episode 44: Dr Felicity Braithwaite - Learning from architects to shape successful treatment for pain

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Episode 43: Karl Monahan - Male Pelvic Pain

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Episode 42: Lessons learnt in 2023 with Tim and Bart

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Episode 41: Ben Cormack - Pain and Exercise

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Episode 40: Prof James McAuley - Did we find a cure for chronic low back pain?

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Episode 39: A/Prof. Melanie Noel - Early childhood pain experiences in the clinic

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Episode 38: Prof. Steven Kamper - Science for Clinicians

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Episode 37 - Dr Jane Chalmers - Pelvic Pain

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Episode 36 - A/Prof. Tasha Stanton - Illusions and context in pain

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Episode 35 - Sheren Gaulbert - Cognitive Hypnotherapy in Pain Treatment

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Episode 34 - Ass. Prof. Alessandro Chiarotto - Prognosis and treatment of chronic low back pain

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Episode 33 - James Close - Pain and psychedelics

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Episode 32 - Bart van Buchem - Pain eduction and learning to learn

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Episode 31 - Prof. Lorimer Moseley - The challenge and complexity of chronic pain

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Episode 30 - Dr Adam Weir - Groin pain

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Episode 29 - Roland Reezigt - What should clinicians learn about pain?

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Episode 28 - Bernhard Taxer - Advances in migraine research and treatment

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Episode 27 - Dr. Ebonie Rio - Contemporary approaches to tendon pain

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Episode 26 - Dr. Lauren Heathcote - Applying the BPS model to cancer pain

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Episode 25 - A/Prof Nathan Hutting - Occupational health, pain and person centred care

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Episode 24 - Tim Beames - Graded Motor Imagery for pain

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Episode 23 - Leanne Rath - Elite sport and philosophy of pain

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Episode 22 - Professor Jo Nijs - Epigenetics and pain

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Episode 21 - Professor Jon Stone - Functional Neurological Disorder and Pain

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Episode 20 - Dr. Albere Koke - Improving access to pain management programmes

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Episode 19 - Lissanthea Taylor - Narrative medicine and pain

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Episode 18 - Tim Beames & Bart Van Buchem - Pain lessons from Le Pub Scientifique

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Episode 17 - Dr Matt Bagg - the RESOLVE trial and chronic low back pain

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Episode 16 - A/Prof Melanie Noel - Intergenerational influences on pain

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Episode 15 - Laura Rathbone - Pain and ethics

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Episode 14 - Dr. Dan Harvie - Pain and perception

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Episode 13 - Professor Steve Kamper - Evidence in practice and pain

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Episode 12 - Dr. Saurab Sharma - Culture and Pain

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Episode 11 - Dr. Jane Chalmers - Pelvic Pain

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Episode 10 - A/Prof Tasha Stanton - Perception and pain

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Episode 9 - Dr. Sarah Wallwork - Childhood pain and neuroscience

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Episode 8 - Luke Bongiorno - sport and pain

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Episode 7 - Sheren Gaulbert - cognitive hypnotherapy and pain

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Episode 6 - Dr. Hayley Leake - Teenagers and pain

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Episode 5 - Professor Beth Darnall - Opioids and pain

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Episode 4 - Ben Cormack, movement, exercise and pain

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Episode 3 - Dr. Josh Pate: childhood pain, evidence-based pain education for kids

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Episode 2 - Dr. Josh Pate: childhood pain, educating kids with pain