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.
It's Not in Your Head
14 Chronic Pain Goal Setting: A Practical Framework for Pain Patients & Providers
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Effective goal setting in chronic pain care requires more than tracking metrics — it requires connecting purpose to action. This episode breaks down how both a pain specialist and a pain coach approach goal setting with their respective patients, covering how to identify a patient's "why," build discipline, cultivate motivation, and develop confidence. Patients leave with tools to make their clinical appointments more productive, while providers gain strategies to link interventions to patient goals in a way that improves adherence and long-term outcomes.
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Timestamps:
00:17 Intro
02:39 Having a Great Why
04:24 Your why matters because this takes time
06:18 Connect your Purpose and your Plan together
08:35 Developing Discipline with a Morning Routine
11:13 Connecting Habits to Discipline to Motivation
12:42 Timeframe - how long will this take?
14:26 How do you identify purpose?
20:47 Finding confidence experiences
27:23 Pain is about loss
30:25 How to talk to your Doctor about this
32:33 Patients need to bring in what they need from Doctors
36:37 Expectation Management
38:38 Disclaimer