Rachel Zoffness, PhD is a pain psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area who specializes in treating teens and children dealing with persistent pain. She is also an Assistant Professor at the UCSF School of Medicine where she teaches pain neuroscience. Through her practice, she developed a workbook, The Chronic Pain & Illness Workbook for Teens, gives youth, parents and healthcare providers a guide to working through chronic pain. Links: https://www.zoffness.com/ Rachel Zoffness' Book: The ...
Nov 14, 2019•32 min
Lauren Elliott, South College DPT Student, joins Jeff and Tim to talk about her story of persistent pain, how her pain started, how her healthcare team addressed her pain and how she was able to overcome it. Lauren is pursuing her passion of helping others who are in persistent pain by becoming a physical therapist herself. Listen in to Lauren's five year journey and where she's going next. Links: [email protected] @EIMTeam @timothywflynn @jeffmooredpt...
Nov 01, 2019•31 min
Dr. Lisa Holland joins Tim and Jeff for Part 2 of their conversation on blending the Eastern and Western models of treatment. If you haven't listened to their first conversation, check out Episode 113. Lisa, Tim and Jeff talk about a "Human Systems Model of Care" that focus on the human that is in your clinic. They discuss what exactly that model of care looks like, how that affects your patients and what that will look like to your patients. Links: Connect with Lisa Holland https://www.linkedin...
Oct 24, 2019•24 min
John Seip, DPT, CSMT, and Peter Drinkwine, DPT, have the unique positions of working as PT's in the Emergency Department at a trauma hospital in Duluth, Minnesota. John and Peter join Liz and Adam to share their experiences helping patients with acute, chronic, and acute-on-chronic pain find hope and direction in some of the most desperate times in their lives. Links: Research in Physical Therapy: https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article/99/9/1150/5554395 Research in American Journal Emergency Medic...
Oct 16, 2019•34 min
In this episode, Sahar Swidan, Pharm.D., R.Ph., ABAAHP, FAARFM, FMNM, FACA, joins Liz, and Adam discuss all things medication treatments for persistent pain, including some exciting up-and-coming medication treatments, new trials, tapering and more. Listen in for details on low-dose naltrexone (LDN), ketamine, oxytocin, and CGRP inhibitors for various persistent pain conditions. Links: https://sahar.world/ @Sahar_Slyngshot @EIMTeam @LizPeppin @adampaulryan painreframed.com...
Oct 09, 2019•48 min
Scott Mann, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, story-teller and human connections coach is joining Tim and Jeff to talk through how finding your personal story can help you overcome trauma and find healing. Scott discusses his time in the military and how that has affected his life moving forward, including his organization, Rooftop Leadership; his play, Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret ; his book, Game Changers ; and his non-profit, The Hero’s Journey. Scott also gives his recommendati...
Oct 03, 2019•30 min
Todd Hargrove joins Dr. Tim and Dr. Jeff on today's episode to talk through how Todd went from practicing attorney to a Feldenkrais Method practitioner and certified rolfer. Todd' discusses his book, Playing with Movement which delves into how environment affects your movement and how to bring enjoyment back to exercise. Using his unique perspective, Todd answers the questions: Is there a way to integrate the Feldenkrais Method into more traditional musculoskeletal health care? How can the Felde...
Sep 26, 2019•25 min
In this episode, Liz and Adam talk with Lynne Greenberg, PhD, about her personal experience with pain. Her poignant memoir, The Body Broken , tracks her experience with pain from misdiagnosis and misunderstanding to connection and realization. Lynne teaches at Hunter College in New York City, where she specializes in 17th century British literature. Lynne, Liz and Adam talk about her journey into the desert of pain and back out again, including some of the ways she now co-exists with pain, despa...
Sep 19, 2019•46 min
On this week's episode, Jodi Young, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, joins Dr. Tim and Dr. Jeff to discuss her latest research article from JOSPT, Nonoperative Management Prior to Hip Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome , and how it addresses the question of how imaging can affect a patient's perspective. Join Jodi, Tim and Jeff as they answer the questions: How should patients synthesize the research for their own situation? What do PTs need to do to insure patients understand the role ...
Sep 12, 2019•30 min
On today's Pain Reframed podcast, Casey Gunderson, CTRS, joins our hosts Liz Peppin, PA-C, TPS, and Adam Ryan, MD, to discuss her role as a Recreational Therapist in a diverse, interdisciplinary pain treatment team at the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs. Join Casey, Liz and Adam as they discuss how she helps veterans have fun to assist them on their path toward healing. Casey shares a shares a powerful story of a veteran who nervously started the veteran climbing program. His fears and ...
Sep 05, 2019•30 min
On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, Dr. Lisa Holland joins Dr. Tim and Dr. Jeff as she discusses integrating Eastern and Western approaches to healthcare. She addresses what's missing in western medicine and how eastern medicine can bring an allopathic approach to healthcare. Join Lisa, Tim and Jeff as they talk motivational interviewing, changing general vernacular and addressing trauma at all levels to build resilience. Links: @ EIMTeam @ timothywflynn @ jeffmooredpt Lisa Holland...
Aug 29, 2019•37 min
On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, Kathy Travnicek, MD joins Adam Ryan, MD and Liz Peppin, PA-C to discuss her own journey through the healthcare system when an ED clinician misdiagnosed a subarachnoid hemorrhage as a wine headache. As a pain management and rehabilitation specialist at Pain Institute of Nevada, fortunately, Kathy was able to advocate for herself and has now fully recovered. Join Liz, Adam and Kathy as they talk through what went wrong in Kathy's experience, how healthcare ...
Aug 22, 2019•45 min
Jeff Hathaway, PT, DPT, the CEO of Breakthrough Physical Therapy in North Carolina, joins hosts Dr. Tim Flynn and Dr. Jeff Moore to discuss his brainchild, VR for Pain Neuroscience Education. Since VR hasn’t been widely implemented in traditional healthcare settings, Jeff Hathaway discusses his strategy for educating the public and other healthcare providers about the benefits of VR, and about how he made VR a reality in his clinics. Listen in as Jeff Hathaway, Tim Flynn and Jeff Moore talk thro...
Aug 15, 2019•24 min
This week, on Pain Reframed, Dr. Tim Flynn and Dr. Jeff Moore are joined by Dr. Peter O’Sullivan. Peter is Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at Curtin University, in Perth, Australia. In addition to his teaching and research at Curtin University, he works in clinical practice as a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2005). He is recognized internationally as a leading clinician, researcher and educator in the management...
Aug 08, 2019•39 min
This week, on Pain Reframed, Dr. Tim Flynn and Dr. Jeff Moore are joined by Dr. Beth Darnall, who is a pain psychologist, clinical scientist, and Clinical Professor at Stanford University. Beth has a focus on pain catastrophizing as well as treating some of the key issues that prevent patients from succeeding with other pain treatments. Clinically, Beth provides psychological services to patients with catastrophic burn, spinal cord injury or amputation. Her desire to specialize in the management...
Aug 01, 2019•33 min
Welcome back to Pain Reframed! This week, we welcome back Dr. Anna Lembke, by popular demand, to discuss how we can specifically help patients to come down off of opioid addiction in a healthy and attainable manner that the patient can also handle. Dr. Lembke describes her acronym: B.R.A.V.O. and how it helps providers to help their patients through the tapering process. B: Brooching the subject R: Risk-benefit calculator A: Addiction happens V: Validation and velocity O: Other treatments for pa...
Jul 25, 2019•37 min
Welcome back to Pain Reframed! This week, we welcome Dr. Anna Lembke who is the Chief of Addiction Medicine and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Anna is also the author of the powerful and eye-opening book “Drug Dealer, MD.” Dr. Lembke shares her professional journey and what led her to write “Drug Dealer, MD.” The premise behind her book is extremely jaw-dropping and shows a very real perspective to what happens between Doctor ...
Jul 18, 2019•39 min
Pain Reframed has some exciting episodes coming up, but we are taking a short summer break. During the break, we will repost some of our biggest hits, and can't wait to bring you brand new episodes soon!
Jul 11, 2019•4 min
We're excited to have Keith Meldrum on this week's episode of Pain Reframed! He shares his journey with chronic pain, what led him to the biopsychosocial model in particular, and how a simple statement changed the path of his recovery. A civil engineer by trade, Keith has been living with chronic pain for over 30 years, after a near-fatal car accident in 1986. Years of surgeries eventually ended in being told that his pain was all in his head. Since then, he's taught himself about the biopsychos...
Jun 13, 2019•43 min
We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Judy Grisel for a particularly emotional episode of Pain Reframed this week. She shares her personal struggle with addiction, the havoc it wreaked on her life and relationships, and what it was that eventually got through to her and convinced her to get sober. She also discusses how she's helping her own daughter avoid making the same mistakes, using techniques we can all implement, both in our clinics and in our personal lives. Dr. Judy Grisel is a behavior...
Jun 06, 2019•40 min
Tim and Jeff are joined by Dr. Roger Chou on this week's episode of Pain Reframed! A professor and physician at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Dr. Chou was part of the team that developed the CDC's Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in 2016. More recently, he co-published an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, examining the current state of opioid prescribing in the United States. Tim, Jeff, and Dr. Chou discuss the impact of both of these works and ...
May 30, 2019•30 min
We're excited to have Dr. Marc Rubenstein on this week's episode of Pain Reframed! He, Tim, and Jeff discuss the idea of empowered relief, taught by Dr. Beth Darnall, a former guest on this podcast, and how it can help us with our ultimate goal: helping chronic pain patients help themselves. Dr. Marc Rubenstein is the owner of Jersey Physical Therapy and Jersey LiveWell, a health management company that works with individuals to reduce chronic disease burden and partners with companies to save o...
May 23, 2019•33 min
This week on #PainReframed, Liz Peppin and Adam Ryan are joined by Dr. Justin Dueweke, an emergency room physician. They discuss the current culture around pain in the ER, how it affects our patients, and the steps we can each take to change it. Dr. Justin Dueweke is a board-certified emergency medicine physician. He works with a private practice in southern Michigan and is affiliated with one of the busiest emergency departments in the U.S. Justin is a firm believer that the words we use have a...
May 16, 2019•40 min
This week, Dr. Jeff Moore & Dr. Tim Flynn examine our tendency as clinicians to take guidelines a step too far. They discuss opioid tapering, in particular, and how well-meaning healthcare professionals might end up doing more harm than good by reading too much into the latest CDC recommendations. Do you want to learn more about how to treat pain in a way that's best for your patients? Join us for a Therapeutic Neuroscience Education (TNE) course near you! LINKS: Twitter - @ISPITeam Find a T...
May 09, 2019•14 min
On our latest episode of Pain Reframed, Tim Flynn and Jeff Moore are joined by Dr. John Zapatna, an orthopaedic physical therapist with a background in neurology. They discuss our tendency to operate in silos, why that harms our patients, and how we can work to create a more holistic approach to healthcare. Dr. Zapanta received his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree at Regis University in Denver, CO. He completed an Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency program in Scottsdale, AZ. He is Board Cer...
May 06, 2019•38 min
Liz Peppin and Adam Ryan are back with their second episode of Pain Reframed! This week, they’re joined by Dr. John Lehtinen, an addiction specialist in a primarily rural area in Michigan. They discuss John’s work with the opioid crisis and how we can each help our communities battle this epidemic. Dr. Lehtinen has a varied background, including sports medicine as well as addiction medicine. He has previously worked with the U.S. Olympics teams at the Summer games in 1992, 1996, and 2008. He is ...
Apr 26, 2019•35 min
This week, Liz Peppin and Adam Ryan are hosting their first episode! To kick things off, they're interviewing Dr. DeAndre Caldwell, a physical therapist in Delaware who works in a hospital-based outpatient center. DeAndre has spent much of his career working with patients who have neck and back pain, which started him on his journey with chronic pain. A graduate of the ISPI Therapeutic Pain Specialist (TPS) program, DeAndre is passionate about using his pain neuroscience education knowledge to a...
Apr 18, 2019•39 min
This week on the Pain Reframed podcast, Dr. David Hanscom joins Tim Flynn and Jeff Moore to discuss the strategies he uses to help chronic pain patients, and why recovery is ultimately in the hands of the patient, not the clinician. Dr. Hanscom is an orthopedic complex spinal deformity surgeon who now understands that most chronic pain from any source is solvable – usually without surgery. He is the creator of the DOC (Direct your Own Care) program, which is the subject of his book, Back in Cont...
Apr 11, 2019•31 min
We're celebrating our 100th episode this week! To mark this special occasion, and stay true to our mission of creating an interdisciplinary conversation about pain, we're bringing two new co-hosts on to Pain Reframed. Tim and Jeff will continue to host episodes, but Liz Peppin and Adam Ryan will take over for them once a month. This week, Jeff and Tim discuss their hopes for the next 100 episodes of Pain Reframed, Adam and Liz introduce themselves, and one of our hosts shares a very personal sto...
Apr 04, 2019•25 min
This week, Dr. Jeff Moore & Dr. Tim Flynn discuss the current state of affairs regarding the opioid epidemic. They look at multiple papers and discuss what strides are being made in confronting this epidemic, as well as what still needs to be done to best help our patients. Do you want to learn how to help your patients cope with pain without using opioids? Join for us for a Therapeutic Neuroscience Education (TNE) course near you! LINKS: Twitter - @ISPITeam Find an ISPI TNE course near you ...
Mar 28, 2019•18 min
