Back in Control with David Hanscom, MD

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Becky Curtis, CEO and founder of the pain management coaching company, Take Courage Coaching. She recounts the car accident that left her with a severe spinal cord injury and intense chronic pain. She discusses how she discovered approaches to personally manage her pain while going through a functional restoration program. And it was these techniques t...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with professor of psychiatry and neuroscientist Stephen Porges about the polyvagal theory. Dr. Porges explains the transformative power of feeling safe to keep us healthy. Using clinical examples from the treatment of pain and trauma, he illustrates how the nervous system responds to cues of safety or threat in the environment to alter th...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with professor of psychiatry and neuroscientist Stephen Porges about the polyvagal theory. He outlines the important role played by the sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous system in governing our response to threats, whether it is from disease, chronic pain or other environmental threats. He also discusses the implications for treatment and why it is i...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with anesthesiologist and pain specialist Dr. James Taylor. Dr. Taylor shares the work his clinics are doing to test the anti-inflammatory and pain management properties of CBD formulations. He discusses the clinical results he has achieved in helping patients reduce or eliminate their opioid use, lower their blood pressure and eliminate...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with anesthesiologist and pain management specialist Dr. James Taylor about the healing properties of cannabinoids. He discusses the role the body’s cannabinoid receptors in the brain and central nervous system play in maintaining homeostasis and health. He also shares how the cannabinoids in CBD can be used to help moderate or eliminate pain by tapping int...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom discusses the important role that inflammatory processes and the body’s response to them play in chronic disease, including COVID-19. He explains the different level of responses that the body has to threats in the environment and outlines the various steps each of us can take to moderate these responses so we remain healthy and less vulnerable to disease. To lea...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with clinical neuroscientist and pain educator Dr. Lorimer Moseley. He talks about the chronic pain epidemic in Australia and shares the work he is doing, through his not for profit organization Pain Revolution, to educate the public and clinicians about chronic pain. For more information, visit https://www.painrevolution.org/  and explor...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with renowned clinical neuroscientist and pain educator Dr. Lorimer Moseley. He discusses what pain is from a neuroscience perspective, the differences between acute and chronic pain, how the brain creates the experience of pain, and how his neuroscience research was driven by his desire to find better clinical treatments for pain. He also shares his belief...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with pain psychologist Les Aria about treating chronic pain. He shares his approach to treating patients based on the Polyvagal Theory. He explains that pain is the body’s neurophysiologic response to feeling unsafe. He discusses how he works with patients to get them to calm down the nervous system and commit to a daily program of dealin...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with pain psychologist Les Aria about the neurophysiologic nature of pain as the brain’s response to perceived danger in the environment. This results in an increase in stress chemicals in the body causing anxiety and suffering. He shares the story of his own struggle with chronic pain, as well as patient stories that illustrate how his approach to treating...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. Jeff Lazarus about medical hypnosis. Dr. Lazarus explains why chronic pain is the condition it is most effective for treating. He talks about how it can help patients focus on an outcome they want, amplify that desire in the mind,  and allow them to self-regulate to feel better and achieve their desired outcome. He details the sp...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. Jeff Lazarus about medical hypnosis and how he uses it to successfully treat a wide variety of conditions from headaches and irritable bowel syndrome, to Tourette's syndrome and chronic pain. He explains what medical hypnosis is, and the technique he uses with patients to help them train their minds so they can get better. He shares several moving...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with performance coach David Elaimy. In 2016, he worked as a performance consultant with the University of Washington Women’s Golf Team. He discusses how he worked with the team members to apply his performance principles to achieve their goal of winning a national championship. He shares the team’s ups and downs on their journey to winni...

TIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with David Elaimy, a performance consultant who specializes in training the minds of high level performers in athletics, business and surgery. He explains the three key principles he uses with his clients to help them achieve maximum performance, and discusses how you  can use them to improve your life. David Elaimy specializes in training the minds of hig...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. John Stracks, about how he applies his integrative, mind body approach to treating chronic pain, both in an individual and group setting. He explains that the key first step in the healing process is getting patients to understand what pain is, and that it can have a non-physical dimension. Once they see how stress impacts their...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. John Stracks, a family practitioner and an early pioneer in the use of mind body methods for treating chronic pain. He discusses his early struggle with chronic pain and how his work with Dr. John Sarno led him to a new approach to treating patients that takes into account the non-physical dimension of pain. He shares some patient success stories t...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion about consciousness and health with Bruce Lipton, a stem cell biologist and author of the best-selling book, The Biology of Belief. He discusses how quantum physics underlies our consciousness and ultimately our health. He explains how stress hormones can interfere with the immune system, and how we can use different learning modalities t...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Bruce Lipton, a stem cell biologist and author of the best-selling book, The Biology of Belief. He discusses the science behind how our consciousness impacts our health. He explains how stress hormones can shut down the immune system, and examines the role that the neurochemistry of the blood and epigenetics play in regulating our health and behavior....

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his conversation with Dr. Rozina Lakhani, a psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of stress and is the author of the book, Stress to Joy: Your Toolkit to Restore Peace of Mind in Minutes. She discusses the 7 most common sources of workplace stress and provides 5 questions you can ask yourself to determine whether and to what degree you are suffe...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. Rozina Lakhani, a psychiatrist who specializing in the treatment of stress and is the author of the book, Stress to Joy: Your Toolkit to Restore Peace of Mind in Minutes. She discusses her 3-step approach to coping with stress. She explains the concepts of "circle of concern", "circle of influence" and the "emotional coping account" which are centr...

Dr. David Hanscom talks with John Gribbin, CEO and a founder of Curable Health - a company which offers educational software programs to help manage chronic pain. He discusses the principles of a more holistic approach to chronic pain treatment that were used in creating the software. He also shares statistics that illustrate how the software works to heal chronic pain over time. For more informat...

Dr. David Hanscom talks with John Gribbin, CEO and a founder of Curable Health - a company which offers educational software programs to help manage chronic pain. He shares his own journey through many years of chronic pain and the insights about overcoming his pain that led him to found the company. For more information, visit: https://curablehealth.com John Gribbin is a founder and the CEO of Cu...

In their second interview, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Emerald GreenForest about the process of personal transformation she discovered during her own period of emotional and spiritual healing from a personal crisis, and now shares with others to help them heal. She details the individual stages of clarity, courage, coaching, creation, checking-in, choosing and celebration. To learn more, visit he...

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Emerald GreenForest who shares her own spiritual and emotional healing journey from personal crisis, and how it led her to discover a powerful process of transformative change. For more information, visit: http://www.emeraldgreenforest.com/gift. Emerald Peaceful GreenForest is an internationally known Speaker, Transformation Artist, Executive Producer...

Dr. David Hanscom talks with Rene Beth Poindexter – an expert in designing collaborative learning environments for social transformation - about the work she is doing and its application in the areas of holistic health and healing. To learn more, visit her websites at: https://www.reneebethpoindexter.com and https://www.livingthepotential.com. Renee Beth Poindexter is the founder of Living the Pot...