59. Pain Psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness

We’re joined by global pain expert and pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness to discuss how pain works and how we can alleviate the root causes of pain instead of seeking short-term relief from addictive painkillers.
Dr. Rachel Zoffness / WebsiteDr. Rachel Zoffness (@therealdoczoff) / InstagramDr. Rachel Zoffness (@DrZoffness) / TwitterRachel Zoffness PhD - Pain psychologist / LinkedIn 
The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES4:30 Gate Control Theory of Pain - Physiopedia7:00 What Is a Pain Psychologist? | Psychology Today9:00 The Science of Pain10:20 Think Pain Is Purely Medical? Think Again. | Psychology Today11:00 Congenital insensitivity to pain: MedlinePlus Genetics11:50 Phantom Limb Pain - Physiopedia12:30 The Emotional Brain as a Predictor and Amplifier of Chronic Pain - PMC14:00 Tackling the Grand Challenge of chronic pain needs widespread reform: Prof John Loeser16:30 Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop17:15 Radically Genuine Podcast | 57. Beliefs, mindsets and the placebo effect22:30 How to explain central sensitization to patients with ‘unexplained’ chronic musculoskeletal pain: Practice guidelines - ScienceDirect25:00 Pain Tolerance and Sensitivity in Men, Women, Redheads, and More29:00 Central sensitisation in chronic pain conditions: latest discoveries and their potential for precision medicine - The Lancet Rheumatology31:00 A ‘Volume Control’ for Pain | Harvard Medical School