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Dr. Howard Schubiner

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Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

And when you begin to put all these clues together, now you're beginning to see, and the MRI doesn't show anything serious other than the normal findings that we were talking about. Now you can be certain and say, oh, this is coming from my brain. Why would it be turning on and off? If you have a broken arm, the pain is not going to turn on and off.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

And when you begin to put all these clues together, now you're beginning to see, and the MRI doesn't show anything serious other than the normal findings that we were talking about. Now you can be certain and say, oh, this is coming from my brain. Why would it be turning on and off? If you have a broken arm, the pain is not going to turn on and off.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

And when you begin to put all these clues together, now you're beginning to see, and the MRI doesn't show anything serious other than the normal findings that we were talking about. Now you can be certain and say, oh, this is coming from my brain. Why would it be turning on and off? If you have a broken arm, the pain is not going to turn on and off.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

It's not going to move to a different part of the arm. So we're just using common sense. And that's what we used in that research study that I mentioned with the back pain. So now you have the assessment. You can have an understanding of that the pain is due to neural circuits in the brain, number one. And number two, what was going on in your life when it started?

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

It's not going to move to a different part of the arm. So we're just using common sense. And that's what we used in that research study that I mentioned with the back pain. So now you have the assessment. You can have an understanding of that the pain is due to neural circuits in the brain, number one. And number two, what was going on in your life when it started?

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

It's not going to move to a different part of the arm. So we're just using common sense. And that's what we used in that research study that I mentioned with the back pain. So now you have the assessment. You can have an understanding of that the pain is due to neural circuits in the brain, number one. And number two, what was going on in your life when it started?

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

Did you feel trapped in some way? Was there something at work? Was there something with your child? Was there something with your spouse? Was there something with your parents? A parent gets sick and now needs a lot more help and a lot more attention. But that same parent maybe was kind of not available when you were a kid.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

Did you feel trapped in some way? Was there something at work? Was there something with your child? Was there something with your spouse? Was there something with your parents? A parent gets sick and now needs a lot more help and a lot more attention. But that same parent maybe was kind of not available when you were a kid.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

Did you feel trapped in some way? Was there something at work? Was there something with your child? Was there something with your spouse? Was there something with your parents? A parent gets sick and now needs a lot more help and a lot more attention. But that same parent maybe was kind of not available when you were a kid.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

so now you're being loving and caring obligated being obligated to go help your parent which you want to do and should do but on the other hand there's this kind of underlying resentment that's going on so there's this conflict of emotions going on in your brain and guess what happened the brain's danger signal goes starts beeping

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

so now you're being loving and caring obligated being obligated to go help your parent which you want to do and should do but on the other hand there's this kind of underlying resentment that's going on so there's this conflict of emotions going on in your brain and guess what happened the brain's danger signal goes starts beeping

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

so now you're being loving and caring obligated being obligated to go help your parent which you want to do and should do but on the other hand there's this kind of underlying resentment that's going on so there's this conflict of emotions going on in your brain and guess what happened the brain's danger signal goes starts beeping

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

And as you're driving to your mom's assisted living home or you're driving to your dad's apartment, all of a sudden your neck starts turning. Wow. Now, what a difference that is to understand that as opposed to, yeah, I've got a bulging disc in my neck and I have to get injections or take medication. That's a huge change.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

And as you're driving to your mom's assisted living home or you're driving to your dad's apartment, all of a sudden your neck starts turning. Wow. Now, what a difference that is to understand that as opposed to, yeah, I've got a bulging disc in my neck and I have to get injections or take medication. That's a huge change.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

And as you're driving to your mom's assisted living home or you're driving to your dad's apartment, all of a sudden your neck starts turning. Wow. Now, what a difference that is to understand that as opposed to, yeah, I've got a bulging disc in my neck and I have to get injections or take medication. That's a huge change.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

I mean, we're human beings, and human beings are social beings, and they're emotional beings, and they're psychological beings. And to ignore that is to not understand what it means to be a human being. We depend on each other. We depend on our relationships for our health and our well-being and our vitality. I mean, people who are lonely, who have few friends, die at an earlier age. We know that.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

I mean, we're human beings, and human beings are social beings, and they're emotional beings, and they're psychological beings. And to ignore that is to not understand what it means to be a human being. We depend on each other. We depend on our relationships for our health and our well-being and our vitality. I mean, people who are lonely, who have few friends, die at an earlier age. We know that.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

I mean, we're human beings, and human beings are social beings, and they're emotional beings, and they're psychological beings. And to ignore that is to not understand what it means to be a human being. We depend on each other. We depend on our relationships for our health and our well-being and our vitality. I mean, people who are lonely, who have few friends, die at an earlier age. We know that.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

people who um who have a lot of great connections live longer live healthier people who think that they're doing well have a positive attitude in their life they do better your audience knows all this this is not you know this has been written about you know in the last decade or so

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

people who um who have a lot of great connections live longer live healthier people who think that they're doing well have a positive attitude in their life they do better your audience knows all this this is not you know this has been written about you know in the last decade or so