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Fighting pain away may not work, but thinking it away might.

We’re always fighting so many things, aren’t we? We fight climate change, we fight diseases, and naturally we fight pain as well. But this is one of the reasons why so many people struggle for so long with it. Because fighting doesn’t work and pain is not something you need to conquer. But that’s exactly how most people approach it, even though there are better ways...

A lot of healing modalities not completely aligned with conventional medicine are often labeled as placebo. But when you think about it, the placebo effect – getting better and feeling less pain just because you believe this should happen – can actually be incredibly powerful.

That’s just one of the topics we touched on with Dr. Bahram Jam, the founder and director of Advanced Physical Therapy Education Institute, who’s also a pain educator with a doctorate in physical therapy. 

And I can tell you that his passion is contagious. When you’re in the company of a person who loves their work it’s hard not to feel it. This is something I vividly remember from the conversation with Dr. Bahram Jam, where we covered the good, the bad, and the ugly things about pain.

In this amazing interview, you’ll discover:

• How to distinguish between good pain and bad pain during recovery.
• When should you be worried about nerve pain.
• How a normally suggested protocol of RICE (rest-ice-compression-elevation) can harm your progress.
• And also, why Dr. Bahram Jam wears different socks, and how this, too, relates to pain

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• For accessing show notes, links, and transcript please visit: https://www.mayanovak.com/podcast/ep27-bahram-jam/

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