Podcast Category: Chronic pain

Tune into optimal health where DocJen and Dr Dom dive into all things wrist health! DocJen and Dr Dom dive into the potential causes of wrist pain, the role of the elbow in wrist health and the best exercises to help optimize that wrist-elbow complex, considering compensation, the nervous system, and the range of motion. By providing your solution with exercises, they discuss the relevance of mobility and strength to build awareness and resilience in the wrists! 

Tune into optimal health where DocJen and Dr Dom dive into the Foot and Ankle! DocJen and Dr. Dom dive into the potential causes of foot and ankle pain, the role of footwear in foot health and the best exercises to help optimize that foot-ankle complex. By providing your solution with exercises, they discuss the relevance of mobility and strength to build awareness and resilience.

Tune into optimal health where DocJen and Dr Dom dive into the knees! DocJen and Dr. Dom dive into the potential causes of knee pain and the best exercises to help optimize that knee. By providing your solution with exercises, they discuss the relevance of mobility and strength to build awareness and resilience.

In this episode, we unravel the mysteries surrounding float therapy, its benefits, what it means to open up your magnesium stores, and the intriguing impact of sensory deprivation on our health with Maxwell Casa. Imagine immersing yourself in a tranquil, weightless space where you float effortlessly in a high-density magnesium solution. We explore its potential to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and enhance overall well-being. Uncovering the effects of eliminating external stimuli, we dive into how this can positively influence our mental and physical health. Then, we delve into the advantages of transdermal magnesium versus the oral form, along with the symptoms of magnesium deficiency. We break down the ideal dose and frequency to maximize its benefits and whether it is advisable for pregnant women! Let’s dive in!

We go back to 13 years of age when Ashleigh Di Lello describes her experience with her first health scare and walks us through the road to getting her health back when the works of the medical system failed to competently support her health journey. Then, she dives into her second health scare, speaking into chronic pain science and how the nervous system was shifted through these traumatic health experiences. By manipulating her mindset, she speaks into the brain behind the pain and how she used principles of bio-emotional healing to battle setbacks and progressions through her pain journey. Unlock top tips as you tune into Ashleigh’s story.

From pain to passive treatment to posture to bad movement to education, Dr. Tom Walters takes a deep dive into pain. Dr. Walters explains how to identify when your pain needs to be checked out and what kind of pain may be appropriate for tissue adaptation. He explains the 6 types of pains we can experience, the importance of language when it comes to addressing pain, whether things can be ‘fixed’ through rehabilitation, and the role of posture when it comes to movement. By honing in on education. Dr. Tom Walters exposes the truths and debunks the myths around pain, teaching you how to decipher between types of pain to get the appropriate help you need.

We’re diving into the considerations that need to be accounted for around expectations for Fibromyalgia patients, what Fibromyalgia is, and how it presents within the body. Then, we discuss what success may look like for Fibromyalgia patients and 3 goals of Fibromyalgia treatment: Exercise (Low Impact Aquatic Training, Aerobic Training and Strength Training), Psychology (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Self-Efficacy, and Adherence), and Education.

It turns out, regenerative medicine is context dependent. Dr, Gregory Lutx provides a rundown on what regenerative medicine and PRP is, the effectiveness of PRP and stem cell injections on disc and joint disorders, as well as the importance of white blood cell count in PRP. Through this discussion, Dr. Lutz highlights newfound research surrounding the spinal microbiome and how it may explain the presence of symptomatic and asymptomatic degenerative disc presentations on MRIs. Therefore, he dives into protocols to target the spinal microbiome, how PRP is made more successful, why patients have persisting pain following spinal fusion surgery, and whether there are any side effects to consider.

The birth story. It’s here! DocJen and Dr. Dom walk the path of the birth of Dante one month after the labour process. Still fresh in their mind and feeling the emotions of birth, they describe the ins and out of how their hopes and plans for labour changed, describing the emotions and physical process surrounding the realities of the birthing process. Let’s dive into true emotional and physical vulnerability as we learn to explore the importance of intuition, education, and advocacy around pregnancy plans and the process of labour.

DocJen & Dr. Dom dive into the psychology and neuroscience of pain, discussing how mindset may perpetuate or distract away from one’s pain experience. They dive into the role of mindset tools, why we get pain, the causes of pain, models and research that explain the link between self-beliefs, thoughts, stress, and pain, as well as effective psychological strategies to help navigate chronic pain on a daily basis.