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The Pain Podcast

The Pain Podcast

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 Every episode of The Pain Podcast features interviews with world-leading pain experts, delivering practical solutions for your toughest clinical challenges. You’ll get cutting-edge insights, evidence-based strategies, and actionable advice to revolutionise your approach to pain treatment and transform patient outcomes.Copyright 2023 All rights reserved. Education Hygiene & Healthy Living Physical Illness & Disease Science
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  • Episode 72: Year in Review 2025: Connections, Coaching and a Growing Pain Community

    Episode 72: Year in Review 2025: Connections, Coaching and a Growing Pain Community
    Dec 17 2025
    In this Christmas special, Tim Beames and Bart van Buchem look back at 2025 with Le Pub Scientifique and The Pain Podcast. This episode is part gratitude, part reflection, and part behind-the-scenes tour of what’s been happening in the Le Pub universe – and how it all connects to real clinical work. They talk about: Meeting listeners and members at EPIC in Lyon and in Melbourne, and the sense that there is now a recognisable, values-driven global pain rehab community. The growth of Le Pub Free Membership (around 350 members) and how it offers access to current assets: podcasts, clinical takeaways, and practical tools. Highlights from Science Sessions, including: Predictive models and mechanisms of pain Nociplastic pain Immunology, lifestyle and their role in rehab The ongoing work of the Pain in Motion group A big year for the Clinical Coaching / Confidence Series: Irene Wicki on radiculopathy and nerve-related pain Bernhard Taxer on headaches, migraine and craniofacial pain A roundtable with Bernhard & Laura Rathbone on overlapping symptom profiles Sessions with Alison Sim and Ben Boyd on persistent conditions and therapeutic process Short-form resources: Pain Hacks – Bart’s 90-second practical pieces. Tim Translates – short paper reviews with explicit “how I use this in clinic” reflections. The FND Motor Masterclass – why functional neurological disorder is becoming more visible in neurology and rehab, and how the masterclass blends psychiatry, neurology and physiotherapy to give clinicians a grounded starting point. How recording the podcast itself has become a reflective practice tool for both Tim and Bart, feeding directly into their day-to-day clinical work. They finish by looking ahead to 2026: A better-organised platform to make Le Pub’s resources easier to access. Upcoming Science Sessions on conditions like osteoarthritis. A continued focus on confidence and competence for clinicians working with people in pain. If this episode helped you… Share it with colleagues who care about pain, but might not yet know Le Pub exists. Consider joining the free membership to access practical takeaways and upcoming sessions. Let Tim and Bart know what you’d like to see more of in 2026. 🔗 Explore Le Pub Scientifique & join the community: In this Christmas special, Tim Beames and Bart van Buchem look back at 2025 with Le Pub Scientifique and The Pain Podcast. This episode is part gratitude, part reflection, and part behind-the-scenes tour of what’s been happening in the Le Pub universe – and how it all connects to real clinical work. They talk about: Meeting listeners and members at EPIC in Lyon and in Melbourne, and the sense that there is now a recognisable, values-driven global pain rehab community. The growth of Le Pub Free Membership (around 350 members) and how it offers access to current assets: podcasts, clinical takeaways, and practical tools. Highlights from Science Sessions, including: Predictive models and mechanisms of pain Nociplastic pain Immunology, lifestyle and their role in rehab The ongoing work of the Pain in Motion group A big year for the Clinical Coaching / Confidence Series: Irene Wicki on radiculopathy and nerve-related pain Bernhard Taxer on headaches, migraine and craniofacial pain A roundtable with Bernhard & Laura Rathbone on overlapping symptom profiles Sessions with Alison Sim and Ben Boyd on persistent conditions and therapeutic process Short-form resources: Pain Hacks – Bart’s 90-second practical pieces. Tim Translates – short paper reviews with explicit “how I use this in clinic” reflections. The FND Motor Masterclass – why functional neurological disorder is becoming more visible in neurology and rehab, and how the masterclass blends psychiatry, neurology and physiotherapy to give clinicians a grounded starting point. How recording the podcast itself has become a reflective practice tool for both Tim and Bart, feeding directly into their day-to-day clinical work. They finish by looking ahead to 2026: A better-organised platform to make Le Pub’s resources easier to access. Upcoming Science Sessions on conditions like osteoarthritis. A continued focus on confidence and competence for clinicians working with people in pain. If this episode helped you… Share it with colleagues who care about pain, but might not yet know Le Pub exists. Consider joining the free membership to access practical takeaways and upcoming sessions. Let Tim and Bart know what you’d like to see more of in 2026. 🔗 Explore Le Pub Scientifique & join the community: https://www.lepubscientifique.com/ ✉️ Get in touch about courses, teaching or collaboration: info@lepubscientifique.com
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    29 mins
  • Episode 71: Pain & Identity - Practical Ways to Rebuild the Self

    Episode 71: Pain & Identity - Practical Ways to Rebuild the Self
    Nov 19 2025

    Pain can steal roles, confidence, and connection. Tim and Bart explore how to spot identity loss and how to guide patients toward a values-led, reconstructed sense of self using language, movement, small wins, and co-created experiments.

    • Why identity matters: chronic pain often causes biographical disruption—a break in the story of “who I am.”

    • Neuro/psycho frame: predictive processing and the “model of me”—how ongoing threat can dominate self-inference.

    • Clinician toolkit:

      • Narrative reframing (precision over catastrophising).

      • Values clarification (ACT-informed prompts that patients can actually answer).

      • Small wins & the Three Gifts practice to re-evidence competence and joy.

      • Co-creation & teams to expand the landscape of affordances.

    • Vignettes: CRPS-style limb disownership language; makeup/hair example as “new me” exploration.

    • Micro-experiments: safe, graded role re-entries across movement, connection, work, and creativity.

    Resources Mentioned:

    • Le Pub Scientifique Free Membership (includes Sleep Clinical Action Plan).

    • Prior conversations with Lance McCracken, Laura Rathbone, Bronnie Lennox Thompson (in the Le Pub library).

    Connect & Subscribe: Le Pub Scientifique—free membership for clinicians & people living with pain. Share the episode if it helped you or your patients.

    #chronicpain #identity #ACT #physiotherapy #values #predictiveprocessing #CPPS #CRPS #narrativereframing #rehab
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    36 mins
  • Episode 70: Sleep, Sensitisation & Relief: Beyond Basic Sleep Hygiene

    Episode 70: Sleep, Sensitisation & Relief: Beyond Basic Sleep Hygiene
    Oct 22 2025

    Up to three-quarters of people with persistent pain report sleep problems. Tim and Bart dig into why sleep disruption boosts sensitivity (inflammation, circadian shifts, cortical filtering) and how targeted, realistic strategies can help—far beyond “no screens after 9.” Hear how to triage insomnia type, coach stimulus control and sleep-window tweaks, handle neuropathic night pain (yes, sometimes get up and move), and track progress weekly.

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    38 mins
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