The Pain Rebel Podcast By Straight Shot Health

The worlds “Addiction” & “Pain” often get used in the same sentence. Sometimes it even seems people use the words interchangeably. But there is a difference and it’s important…especially if we want to have a rational discussion about improving health and healthcare. In fact, it could be argued that the misunderstanding & mistreatment of addiction […]

All ‘treatments’ have side effects but while we typically think that side effects are bad they don’t have to be. However, what treatment you choose will affect which types of side effects you end up with. Interestingly, when we start understanding pain and facilitating change the side effects can be profound. (And profoundly good) More […]

Positive & Negative feedback loops are found everywhere.  They’re what allow a plane to arrive at its destination (generally on time) and they also allow your body to function. However, you can also find positive and negative feedback loops at work in belief systems and THESE feedback loops & the beliefs that anchor them are […]

Simple Question: What if you were only paid if your client got results from your treatment?  Or, if you’re the client, you were 100% financially responsible for any treatments you pursued? How would that change your practice (or what you are willing to pay for)? Unfortunately, in our current world of “Pain Management,”  Price-to-Value ratios […]

Luckily for us, Firefighters understand Fire well. They know HOW fires are constructed but they also understand HOW fires behave. More importantly, they’ve figured out how to simplify (but not ‘dumbify’) very complex processes into easy-to-use and understand models. Unfortunately, in the ‘Pain World’ we’re not there yet.  Instead, there seems to be an ever-increasing need […]

One of the more upsetting (out of the many upsetting aspects) of the ‘pain world’ is a persistent but false belief that patients who were prescribed opioid medications can’t come off of them. In fact, some doctors describe a ‘Lost Generation’ of pain patients.  They believe these patients because of the duration of time they’ve […]

I almost didn’t publish this episode.  However, I am because it is important for people to understand that misinformation on pain continues to get distributed. Unfortunately, even in places where it should not be occurring. Background: A listener to Straight Shot Health asked me to listen to an episode from another ‘pain podcast.’ So I […]

Here’s an analogy of the Healthcare System (at least in the United States): Imaging you’re thirsty and want a drink of water.  However, the only water available is from a single river…and that river is a raging torrent of white froth, rocks, and tumultuous waterfalls. Plus the shores of the river are rocky and steep. […]

Stress…stress…stress.  Everywhere you look someone is talking about “Stress Management” or the “Problem of Stress.” But they’re missing the point.  Stress, in and of itself, is NOT a bad thing! In fact, stress is necessary for a healthy life because it causes growth (in all facets of health–physical, emotional, spiritual, community, etc.) Instead, the problem […]

Do you enjoy listening to the same intro over and over again for podcasts you subscribe to?  If so, I’d like to know why? I’m not sure, after the first episode or two, how that intro helps the listener? Anyway, this episode discusses why I took the intro out of this podcast (even though it […]