The Chronic Pain Breakup

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 In this episode, I'll be sharing some of the top characteristics of a nervous system pain problem so you can know how to recognize if your chronic pain would improve with a nervous system retraining approach. You will learn who would benefit from this approach, and who wouldn't...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 Don't chase the pain! Instead, learn why pain spreads and how to address it. In this episode, I'm discussing this common problem associated with chronic pain, sharing why pain spreads, travels, and moves around as if it has a mind of it's own.   And if your pain spreads, a...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 Have you been told to lose weight as a pain management strategy?   So many people are told to (1) exercise to (2) lose weight to (3) relieve pain. In. That. Order. But this is the WRONG order of things... what we need to do is: (1) reduce pain by addressing the nervous sys...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 Pain comes with so much stigma, isolation, confusion, fear, and misunderstanding.  Those who haven't experienced pain have no clue just how vastly and widely it impacts and changes your life. In this episode, I explore one reason WHY chronic pain comes with so much stigma...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 If you have arthritic or degenerative changes, does that mean you're "SOL" and you just need to learn to cope with the pain? You're gonna think I sound crazy, but even if you have arthritic or degenerative changes, real structural and mechanical problems in your joints or spine...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252   When you have chronic pain, you learn to hide it behind a mask as a way to cope. It's a way to feel connected to those around you, to, sort of, fake it to fit in.  Humans crave connection, but could you imagine being part of a community where it's safe to be in a state of...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252   One of the biggest challenges I see people who have chronic pain struggling with is STAYING ACTIVE.  In this episode of the Chronic Pain Breakup Podcast, I'm sharing 10 Keys to Staying Active when you have stubborn, persistent pain, so that you can do more with less pain....

This was one heck of a heartwarming conversation...    Let me first give you a little back story... I met Chanda about 8 months ago.  She was struggling with the YEARS (decades) of chronic pain and illness. She was doing everything she could to try to feel better... EVERYTHING. She got to a point where, like so many, she couldn't imagine her life could be any better. ...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252   Have you been told you've "Failed Physical Therapy"??! Well today I'm talking about why Physical Therapy HAS FAILED YOU, and why, so often, PT doesn't work for people with chronic pain.   Learn if you'd benefit from a nervous system retaining approach at my next FRE...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252   If you're frustrated by not feeling motivated to exercise because you're always in pain... YOU ARE NOT ALONE. In this episode, I'm exploring the science behind why it's so hard to stay motivated if you have stubborn pain, and I'll explain WHY your level of motivation is...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252   In this episode, my friend and colleague, Alison Hughes , shares her journey with chronic pain, navigating the health care system and eventually taking things into her own hands by implementing a self-care pain-care lifestyle change.   Her pain-self-care story involv...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252    There is a MASSIVE gap between the care that's available to you in the health care system and the care that your body actually needs.  My aim is to at least START to close that gap.  And so in this episode, I'm sharing the four essential elements that are...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252   "Alissa, everything you say about the nervous system makes so much sense! I totally need to retrain my nervous system, but HOW do I do it?!?! JUST TELL ME HOW!!!!"       If this is your thought.. this episode is for you.     It makes sense to...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 The Chronic Pain B.S. is NEXT LEVEL!!!   In this episode, I'm covering 4 chronic pain misconceptions and sharing the TRUTH you need to hear.   We're busting these myths: Myth #1: Pushing through pain is the only way to get anything done. Myth #2: You have chronic pain becau...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 Listen in to my conversation with a chronic pain educator and pain psychologist, Dr. Anna Redmond.  We discuss the barriers that are preventing you from getting the in depth understanding of your pain that you need, the flaws with the biomedical model, and the connection between...

Do you believe you can get better? On a scale from 1-10, how much do you believe you have the ability to get better, if 1 is not at all and 10 is I am super confident I can get better...   Today we are talking about incurable conditions... and specifically how we CAN get better even if we have a condition that can not be cured!   How We Can Work Together: Join   The Chronic Pai...

Why does weather affect pain? Let me know in the comments if your pain changes with changes in the weather by sharing a weather-related emoji AND tell me how this feels to you. And let me know 1 thing you learned! Wanna learn about all the changes in the nervous system, and get in control of your pain so you feel less like your pain has control of your life? Schedule that call with me today, click...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 Let me know if you've heard of the Vagus Nerve or not and what your thoughts are about it! My thoughts… it’s pseudoscience. 🚩🚩🚩  We DO need to address the nervous system in order to treat chronic pain conditions.  BUT... Nervous System Retraining goes beyond attemp...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 What is the relationship between stress and chronic pain? Does stress actually cause pain? Or is pain the cause of stress? In this episode I'll be breaking it all down, giving you a new understanding of this complex issue, through the lens of neuroscience.   How We Can Wor...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 In this episode, I dive into the topic of surgery sharing a neuroscience/nervous system perspective! If you're considering having surgery, there is no reason to put off doing nervous system retraining. It is perfectly safe to do both and in fact, I would encourage you to do bot...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 What is inflammation and what can we do about it??? Clearing up some of the misconceptions about what inflammation is and what it has to do with pain... Should we be focusing our efforts on reducing inflammation OR focusing on addressing the deeper reason WHY the body is creati...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 Understanding the 3 types of pain is important to finding an approach that address your type, or TYPES, of pain. The three types of pain are: 1. nociceptive pain 2. neuropathic pain 3. nociplastic pain Before you decide which type of pain you have, remember that you can have mo...

Join the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience Community >>  https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 Let's talk about the long-term effects of pain and how it has effects on us physically, emotionally, and neurologically. Knowing the effect pain has on our bodies can help us understand what we need to do to really address the root cause, not just the symptoms. In order to actu...

Welcome to the CHRONIC PAIN BREAKUP PODCAST ! This podcast has been a long time coming and I think it's only appropriate that I kick things off with a bit of an introduction to me and what this space is all about. Join me as I record these episodes LIVE inside the Battling Chronic Pain with Neuroscience - FB group here ==> https://www.facebook.com/groups/661471315077252 And send me a messa...