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For most people, the go-to method for dealing with pain is taking pain medication. There’s nothing wrong with this approach and sometimes it’s very necessary to take some kind of medicine to ease the suffering.

I mean, I’m still very grateful for the morphine that I got after my ankle surgery where they put 2 screws into my talus bone back in 2012.

However, pain can be treated with many different approaches and before we automatically reach for painkillers it might be a good idea to consider other options as well.

In today’s episode, I talk to Dr. David Schechter, a family practice and sports medicine doctor who’s one of the pioneers in researching the Mind-Body Syndrome in medicine.

We go pretty deep into the process of how the brain and our psyche create not just our perception of pain, but pain itself and the research behind it. And because Dr. Dave is also the author of the Mind-Body Workbook, we also look at the ways that this knowledge can be used to treat the kind of pain that is likely to be neuroplastic (which is most chronic pain).

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• For accessing show notes, links, transcript, and video, please visit: https://www.mayanovak.com/podcast/ep21-david-schechter/

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