Welcome to Table Talk, the podcast series where clinical experience informs optimal human function. On this episode we have the luxury of speaking with Joshua Fein-Brown. An Osteopath, Naturopath and Pain Specialist. Joshua is a University lecturer at the British College Of Osteopathic Medicine and runs CPD courses on pain and well-being for professionals. His keen fascination for understanding pain has given him unique perspective on the link between mind and body. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!

https://www.feinhealth.co.uk/ 

References: 

2:59 - Eyal Lederman: the fall of the structural biomechanical model 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21419349/ 

4:29 - How has your education informed your clinical practice?

7:00 - What is interoception? 

11:55 - Correlation between pain and trauma

17:02 - How has your experience of pain informed your practice?

24:17 - Actionable tools to improve interoception 

29:00 - Describing pain; for patient and practitioner

34:26 - Are there any challenges or things to be aware of when using interoception in practice?

38:10 - The use of breath and regulation of autonomic nervous system 

41:00 - Holding space with people in debilitating pain

46:35 - Finding balance between the internal need to care for others and providing care to patients 

48:00 - James Baldwin; “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5853-you-think-your-pain-and-your-heartbreak-are-unprecedented-in 

49:33 - How do you cope when patients don’t get better?

54:55 - Where do you feel like pain care is evolving?

59:00 - CPD Courses or booking with Joshua: https://www.feinhealth.co.uk/