Today’s episode is a really important one.  It covers a topic that affects someone you know or perhaps even you and it’s definitely something we are trying to avoid, which is chronic pain.   Here are some statistics:  

• 50 million Americans live with chronic pain
• Between $500 and 630 BILLION is lost annually due to chronic pain in  America 
• Patients experience persistent pain after routine surgery up to 50% of the time.
• 18% of women suffer from migraine attacks.
• Back pain is the leading reason for sick leave and early retirement in Europe. 
• Back pain represents 27% of all types of pain.
• 34.6% of pain patients in Canada think of suicide.
• In N America pain accounts for 78% of all ER visits.

  Meet Jen DeLorenzo a Licensed Physical Therapist, Certified Functional Manual Therapist, Therapeutic Pain Specialist, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach.  She is based in Alexandria Virginia and aligned with Jenn's in-person practice.    Topics discussed

• A new way of working with Physical Therapy
• Pain as an experience, there’s so much more to pain than our biology
• How the environment that we are in can influence pain
• The 4 main pillars of health for the nervous system and pain
• Chronic pain information that most physicians don’t understand
• What nudging with pain means

Links of interest:

https://drgominak.com/ https://evidenceinmotion.com/people/adriaan-louw/ https://evidenceinmotion.com/ https://noijam.com/about-noi/ https://www.instagram.com/theexercisedesignlab/ https://youtu.be/gwd-wLdIHjs https://medalerthelp.org/chronic-pain-statistics/   [email protected]  703-859-3415 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jendelorenzopt/