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
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 patient to better explain what chronic pain feels like - especially with regards to increasing buckets of central sensitization. Dan then delves into the medical side of sleep, covering disorders including snoring, as well as various medications used to treat sleep. On the next episode, Juz will cover the conservative management strategies on the patient end, so you can further improve fatigue and cognitive dysfunction.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Official Intro
00:18 Intro
03:28 Recap of The CS Algorithm
07:32 How do you sleep to explain your pain?
11:36 Sleep Basics
12:16 Sleep Cycles
16:47 Bi-directional effect, sleep architecture and alterations
20:22 Mechanistic Perspective
22:34 Sleep Needs
27:43 Sleep Disorders
35:12 Meds
42:24 Snoring
48:55 Wrap-up
49:47 Disclaimer