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Dr. Joe Tatta: Why Can't We Just Turn Pain Off?

Mar 28, 2021
 

Dr. Melissa Cady discusses Dr. Joe Tatta's journey as a physical therapist while acquiring additional training as a nutritionist and pain educator. They also discuss why it can be so difficult to help those challenged by pain.

Timeline:

01:00 Joe’s background and training

04:00 Why the nutrition training

06:15 What he has learned about the online pain experiment

08:25 We do not have enough clinicians to help people with pain

09:10 Education is not alone to create behavior change

10:55 How to help patients with behavior change

15:00 His experience with patients who have tried “everything”

16:00 Admitting that a clinician may not be able to change a patient’s pain

17:00 Be curious

18:00 Controlling, eliminating, or avoiding pain

20:40 Live Life to help pain (vs. holding off life to eliminate pain first)

23:00 Creative hopelessness activity

25:15 You can’t just turn off anger or other emotions like a switch; similar to pain

26:20 Negative effects of not feeling pain

28:45 ...

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