Adriaan Louw: Understanding Pain, What Factors Influence It and How We Can Manage It.
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Do you ever wonder why we feel pain and how to deal with it?
In this episode of The Align Podcast, Dr. Adriaan Louw and I talk about pain and the factors that influence it, including the connection between the brain and why our perception matters. We also discuss how to teach people on how to deal with pain, how to calm our nervous system and how our nervous system affects our reaction to pain.
Adriaan is an adjunct faculty member at St. Ambrose University and the University of Nevada Las Vegas, teaching pain science. Adriaan has taught throughout the US and internationally for 25 years at numerous national and international manual therapy, pain science and medical conferences. He has authored and co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles related to spinal disorders and pain science. Adriaan completed his Ph.D. on pain neuroscience education and is the Director of the Therapeutic Neuroscience Research Group - an independent collaborative initiative studying pain neuroscience. He is a senior faculty, pain science director and vice-president of faculty experience for Evidence in Motion.
5:35 - What is acute pain?
7:14 - Pain is a conscious construct of the brain
9:06 - How to measure the scale of subjective pain
11:14 - The factors that affect how we interact with pain
13:56 - Where does pain live?
16:29 - The timeline of acute and chronic pain
18:05 - The relationship between perception and pain
20:10 - How to teach people how to deal with pain
24:20 - The foundations of learning and understanding pain
27:29 - “The Gate Control Theory of Pain”
1:16:41 - What is “Plantar Fasciitis” and why it happens?
37:34 - The explanation behind “stress-induced analgesia”
40:18 - How we invest in the central nervous system
44:37 - Learning from challenging diseases linked to pain
45:53 - How we can take advantage of neuroplasticity
51:28 - Are humans forgetting about the senses of the world?
01:00:03 - Calming the nervous system
Learn more about Adriaan:
Evidence in Motion: https://evidenceinmotion.com/
Twitter: @AdriaanLouwFaux
OPTP: https://www.optp.com/
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