This month we’re talking about the importance of normalizing 4 areas of your life: sleep, your social life, school/work, and sports/exercise. We discuss how these things done all at once retrain your brain and neurological system to allow improved function and decrease pain. We set expectations for treatment of persistent pain and how PTs measure progress through function. After all, we want you to be empowered to make positive changes and understand the importance of taking ownership over your own life and treatment. We know this process is not easy but there is never a shortcut to getting better. If there was, we would know, and we would give it to you, because we want what you want, a life lived how you want it, doing the things you love. You hold the keys to that life, and we want to help you unlock the tools to achieve it. Plus Erin and Kayla talk about Nobel Prize winners and how laughter helps improve our pain too!

References:

- Dunbar, R.I.M. “Social Laughter Is Correlated with an Elevated Pain Threshold.” Royal Society Publishing, 14 Sept. 2011, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.1952.

- Mueller, Benjamin, et al. “Nobel Prize Awarded for Research about Temperature and Touch.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 4 Oct. 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/health/nobel-prize-medicine-physiology-temperature-touch.html?fbclid=IwAR0KP-kVpAXWZDjWOsMTj6eBuwRfQVqhfQHusvogZR32U3y62NYZ929jEAk.

Disclaimer: This podcast contains general information for community education purposes only, and does not take into account your specific comorbidities that your current healthcare provider may be managing. Please contact your care provider with questions regarding anything particular to you.