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In 2023, we recorded a conversation with Anjelo Ratnachandra "The Intelligent Rebellion" podcast, and its message is more relevant now than ever. This is the 10min version of that conversation. Listen to the full episode

Host Rhea Mercado interviews physiotherapist Anjelo Ratnachandra, founder of Beyond Pain, about treating chronic pain and illness through a biopsychosocial lens. 

Anjelo shares his 20-year background across chronic pain, fatigue, mental health, long COVID, and counselling, plus lived experience after a collapsed lung and a Molotov cocktail attack that led to burns and chronic pain; despite medical doubts, he later trekked to Everest Base Camp, influenced by a Buddhist philosophy and a commitment to “walk the talk.”

Rhea and Anjelo discuss why identical pathologies can recover differently, how guidelines are guardrails with necessary grey areas, and why education, empathy, and client-centered interdisciplinary teamwork can outperform routine hands-on care. They address overtreatment, dependency/learned helplessness, outcome measurement, self-management, and how to raise sex and intimacy concerns in assessment.

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00:00 Meet Anjelo Ratnachandra
00:13 Physio Career Path
00:48 Pain Clinic Lessons
01:14 Molotov Attack Story
01:55 Everest Base Camp Goal
02:49 Mindset and Upbringing
03:39 Biopsychosocial Rehab
04:50 Education Over Hands On
06:02 Clinician to Patient Insights
07:25 Industry Gaps and Overtreatment
09:07 Intimacy and Chronic Pain
11:08 How to Ask the Taboo
11:36 Advice for New Clinicians
12:34 Where to Find Ange
12:50 Final Takeaways

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