From Medicine to Fitness to Pain...
There is Always Something to Gain.
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 ...