95 - Intro to Pain Science with Brodie Sharpe

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• 3:00 Brodie’s introduction to pain science
• 7:15 pain in a new light: pain as threat perception
• 8:15 pain is generated entirely in the brain
• 10:30 the role of historical context in perception of pain
• 12:00 Michael’s lax ankle ligaments
• 16:30 is it possible to ‘unlearn’ pain?
• 19:00 Brodie’s hypothesis on how kids process pain
• 22:15 pain signals and motor control
• 24:15 the memories of past injuries
• 27:30 persistent pain triggered by an associated movement / motor action
• 31:45 phantom pain
• 33:00 how to decouple chronic pain from chronic tissue damage?
• 36:15 the longer a patient experiences a specific pain, the more of an influence the pain itself - as opposed to the structural damage - on ongoing pain. 
• 41:00 the power of language
• 43:00 what can we do about chronic pain?
• 47:00 why do we experience delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS)?

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