Helping People Living With Chronic Pain

My mission is to help you understand the complexity of pain in an easy way and introduce you to the new way of pain science and realize that we can rewire the brain and adopt a more holistic way of controlling pain and in some cases become pain free.

There are a lot of flawed beliefs and thoughts that occupy the present healthcare system and they often account for the worsening of the problem rather than helping it. Everything we were taught about pain has to be unlearnt and the explosion of new robust knowledge demonstrates that we need to not just adopt a biological approach but also a psychosocial approach.

I am passionate about adopting a trauma informed approach to healing pain. The time has come for integrating the conversation about the social determinants of health and our present healthcare. We need to go UPSTREAM in order to manage pain better and get control of it before it controls us. The need has also come for all hospitals and other specialist centres to adopt a trauma-informed approach to managing pain. We need to first of all understand pain better and accept that drugs don’t work that effectively nor do all interventions/surgeries. We now know that all our best practice specialist care only amounts to about 20% of all meaningful improvement. The remaining 80% comes from environment and individual personality and the social determinants of health.

Chronic pain especially requires an approach that is not just about medications or injections/surgery but also supporting health in its entirety—fully integrating self management alongside expert support care when needed in a preventative approach The work that I do in my clinical life as a doctor, educator and speaker is raise awareness of these issues and find new ways to empower patients and doctors by providing new solutions that enhance lifestyle, well-being and health, prevent disease, and relieve chronic pain.