It's Not in Your Head
Welcome to It's Not in Your Head Podcast, with Dan and Juz. Dr. Dan is a Sports Physician and Justine a Pain Coach and patient. We have come together to find ways to manage complex pain better for both patients and providers. New episodes will come out bi-weekly on all major platforms.
Episodes
26 episodes
27 Ask Us Anything (AUA-1)
Strategic Empathy: Handling Chronic Pain and Invisible Illnesses In the inaugural Q&A episode of 'It's Not In Your Head,' Dan and Juz discuss strategies for managing chronic pain, addressing both patient and provider perspective...
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27:14
26 Travel with Chronic Pain
In this episode of 'It's Not In Your Head' podcast, Dan and Juz explore the myriad of challenges and strategies around traveling with chronic pain. They discuss pre-travel preparation, in-flight strategies, travel management, and post-travel re...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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45:47
25 Communicating Better: Owning Your Care & Understanding Your Doctors POV
Managing Complex Chronic Pain: Patient and Provider StrategiesIn this episode of 'It's Not In Your Head' podcast, Dan and Juz delve into effective strategies for managing complex chronic pain for both patients and providers. The conversa...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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57:54
24 Body Part Pain Algorithm
In this episode of 'It's Not In Your Head' podcast, hosts Dr. Dan Bates and Justine Feitelson discuss nociceptive pain, also known as body part pain. The episode delves into their Nociceptive Pain Algorithm, breaking down the different types of...
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Episode 24
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41:43
23 Sleep and Pain: Anchoring, the Rice Cooker and the Nappucino
In this Pt. 2 of sleep episode, Dan and Juz cover the conservative measures around improving your sleep, particularly if you struggle with insomnia, or painsomnia, as many pain patients refer to the challenge of falling asleep. They cover exter...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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59:47
22 Sleep and Pain: What's Driving What?
Dan and Juz dive into the significant relationship between pain and sleep, and how it drives sensitization. They cover sleep basics, how lack of it long-term negatively impacts patients cognitively, and share a helpful analogy you can use as a ...
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Episode 22
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50:15
21 Pacing: Flare Prevention & Energy Management
In this podcast episode, Dan and Juz explore the concept of pacing and give it a bit of a re-brand, going through their structure and personal examples to learn how to break down managing your timing, tasks and tolerance more effectively so you...
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Episode 21
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58:24
20 Lower Back Pain
In this podcast episode, Dan and Juz explore a step-by-step approach to managing lower back pain. They begin with busting some significant yet persistent myths when it comes to patient recovery, and continue the conversation by identifying key ...
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Episode 20
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1:12:10
19 Basics of Conservative Pain Management
Dan and Justine dive into the basics of conservative pain management, covering the starting points of her MARSMethod and where you need to begin as a patient no matter what types of chronic pain you have. They go through the importance of and g...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:09:59
18 How to Assess Your Pain
In this episode, Justine and Dan go over a number of different assessments tools you can use to define what types of pain you have, what amplifiers may be playing a role, and how symptoms are affecting you functionally. Besides these validated ...
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Episode 18
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40:35
17 Nerve Pain Management
Dan and Juz cover the neuropathic pain algorithm, taking you through first through fourth-line treatment options from most to least conservative. They cover trialing and combining various medications including opioids, topicals for focal areas ...
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Episode 17
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1:20:12
16 How to Draw Your Pain
In this episode, Dan and Juz focus on the importance of communicating and assessing pain through the use of pain diagrams, which help both clinicians and patients gain insights into the sources and amplification of their presentation. The hosts...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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54:23
15 Anatomy of a Flare
Agency is crucial as a chronic pain patient - especially when you feel most helpless and scared with pain at its worst. Flares are always difficult to navigate, but they don't have to make you feel so helpless and reactive. What are the phases ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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49:22
14 Goal Setting
In this episode, Dan and Justine break down how they each set goals and manage expectations with their patients. We dive into why your 'why' matters, how to connect your purpose to your plan, create discipline, tap into motivation, identify you...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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39:07
13 Widespread Pain and Making Sense of Things That Don’t Make Sense
In this episode, Dr. Dan and Justine introduce their 'Central Sensitization Algorithm' designed to help healthcare providers diagnose and treat central sensitization and related neuroinflammatory disorders more effectively. The algorithm catego...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:00:42
12 What Else Do You Say?
In this episode of "It's Not In Your Head," Dan and Justine dive into the nuanced aspects of how to more effectively communicate about pain with patients, focusing on the significance of specific language and its impact on patient outcomes. The...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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44:30
11 What's the Harm?
Trigger warning: This episode deals with the topic of suicide.Dan and I have an interesting and important discussion that bridges the gap between patients’ clear and obvious frustrations with how different versions of “it’s in your head”...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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47:29
10 History of Hysteria
From the uterus, to witchcraft, hypnotism and more, we go through the history of what unexplainable symptoms have been blamed on and how they've been explained through history all the way up to more modern day classifications like Briquette's s...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:51:03
9 Therapeutic Limitations
In this episode, we expand upon 'Number Needed to Treat', tying that concept into overall therapeutic limitations and some other examples beyond medications, including one you are definitely going to want to hear about - the effect of pain neur...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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20:29
8 Why Not Everything Works for Everybody
The hard truth is it's normal for treatments, especially medications, not to work. But how many patients do you actually have to treat to improve things for just one even? This is where the concept 'number needed to treat' is critical to better...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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22:23
7 The Pain Pie
In this episode, we will bring the different types of pain together in an alternative way to "Pain is a Sound System', introducing 'The Pain Pie' to tease apart the different aspects of pain that contribute to the output of symptoms patie...
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Episode 7
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15:22
6 Sensitization
Learn how central sensitization really presents. And yes, it’s a big deal that is currently essentially glossed over due to the lack of identification and treatmentsThe symptom clusters this type of pain creates long term are di...
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Episode 6
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36:50
5 Nerve Pain
Diagnosing and treating nerve pain, or neuropathic pain, is very challenging. Now that you understand nociceptive pain, we’ll help you see the clear difference between that and neuropathic presentations.Justine and Dan break down how to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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59:49