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Episode 50: Grit, Gratitude and Grace: A positive mindset can improve pain and resilience AiArthritis Voices 360 Talk Show
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This week join your patient co-hosts Tiffany Westrich-Robertson, Deb Constein, and Patrice Johnson as they take us back stage at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Conference. This episode will focus on a session from ACR titled “Grit, Gratitude, and Grace” about the impact that positive psychology can have on disease and pain management for AiArthritis patients.
Researchers induced pain in healthy adult military cadets to study the relationship between mindset and pain perception. They found that subjects with more positive attitudes, resilience to adversity, and growth mindsets reported lower pain levels than those who did not share those traits. Scientists have also discovered a link between pain and mental health. Depression and anxiety can even trigger an inflammatory response and the corresponding pain in some people. But patients know that just telling someone to have a positive attitude does not help them, so Tiffany, Deb, and Patrice will dig into the specific ways that you can harness grit, gratitude, and grace to feel happier and experience less pain.
The mission of AiArthritis is to elevate and center the patient voice in global conversations with all stakeholders about solving problems facing the autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis community. AiArthritis Voices - our online platform designed to deepen these conversations - allows all patients and parents of juvenile patients to attend conferences like ACR through our innovative new Learn and Connect section. So come join us to continue this and other conversations!
Patient Voices and All Other Stakeholders - Join our AiArthritis Voices Program and Connect to Opportunities to Have Your Voice Counted!
If you are a patient, a parent of a juvenile patient, or any other stakeholder (doctor, nurse, researcher, industry representative, or other health services person) - are you ready to join the conversation? It's your turn to pull up a seat. Join our new AiArthritis Voices program, where people living with AiArthritis diseases and other stakeholders who we need 'at the table' to solve problems that impact education, advocacy, and research sign up to have a voice in our initiatives. By signing up, you’ll get notified of opportunities to be more involved with this show - including submitting post-episode comments and gaining insider information on future show topics. Patients and all other stakeholders are encouraged to join so we can match you with opportunities to pull up a seat and TOGETHER - as equals - solve the problems of today and tomorrow.
JOIN TODAY!
AiArthritis Voices 360 is produced by the International Foundation for Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Arthritis. Visit us on the web at www.aiarthritis.org/talkshow. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook (@ifAiArthritis) or email us (podcast@aiarthritis.org).
Show Notes: Episode 50 – “Grit, Gratitude, and Grace”
00:52 - Tiffany welcomes listeners
01:37 - Tiffany is joined today by Deb and Patrice, who attended the virtual American College of Rheumatology Conference with Tiffany
02:49 - Patients are increasingly demanding a “whole body approach” to treating AiArthritis Diseases which may include non-pharmacologic therapies
03:31 - One of the sessions at ACR discussed the effect of positive mindset on disease and pain management
06:38 - The speaker focused heavily on how individuals respond to adversity and why some people are more resilient than others
06:59 - When you experience adversity, what happens inside your body?
07:28 - People who are more resilient (ie have grit) tend to experience less pain
08:23 - People with military training tend to have strong resilience, so researchers studied grit in cadets by inducing pain in healthy subjects
09:13 - The cadets with the most positive attitudes had higher pain thresholds and more resilience to pain
09:40 - Other research has shown that depression and anxiety can trigger inflammatory responses and pa
This week join your patient co-hosts Tiffany Westrich-Robertson, Deb Constein, and Patrice Johnson as they take us back stage at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Conference. This episode will focus on a session from ACR titled “Grit, Gratitude, and Grace” about the impact that positive psychology can have on disease and pain management for AiArthritis patients.
Researchers induced pain in healthy adult military cadets to study the relationship between mindset and pain perception. They found that subjects with more positive attitudes, resilience to adversity, and growth mindsets reported lower pain levels than those who did not share those traits. Scientists have also discovered a link between pain and mental health. Depression and anxiety can even trigger an inflammatory response and the corresponding pain in some people. But patients know that just telling someone to have a positive attitude does not help them, so Tiffany, Deb, and Patrice will dig into the specific ways that you can harness grit, gratitude, and grace to feel happier and experience less pain.
The mission of AiArthritis is to elevate and center the patient voice in global conversations with all stakeholders about solving problems facing the autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis community. AiArthritis Voices - our online platform designed to deepen these conversations - allows all patients and parents of juvenile patients to attend conferences like ACR through our innovative new Learn and Connect section. So come join us to continue this and other conversations!
Patient Voices and All Other Stakeholders - Join our AiArthritis Voices Program and Connect to Opportunities to Have Your Voice Counted!
If you are a patient, a parent of a juvenile patient, or any other stakeholder (doctor, nurse, researcher, industry representative, or other health services person) - are you ready to join the conversation? It's your turn to pull up a seat. Join our new AiArthritis Voices program, where people living with AiArthritis diseases and other stakeholders who we need 'at the table' to solve problems that impact education, advocacy, and research sign up to have a voice in our initiatives. By signing up, you’ll get notified of opportunities to be more involved with this show - including submitting post-episode comments and gaining insider information on future show topics. Patients and all other stakeholders are encouraged to join so we can match you with opportunities to pull up a seat and TOGETHER - as equals - solve the problems of today and tomorrow.
JOIN TODAY!
AiArthritis Voices 360 is produced by the International Foundation for Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Arthritis. Visit us on the web at www.aiarthritis.org/talkshow. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook (@ifAiArthritis) or email us (podcast@aiarthritis.org).
Show Notes: Episode 50 – “Grit, Gratitude, and Grace”
00:52 - Tiffany welcomes listeners
01:37 - Tiffany is joined today by Deb and Patrice, who attended the virtual American College of Rheumatology Conference with Tiffany
02:49 - Patients are increasingly demanding a “whole body approach” to treating AiArthritis Diseases which may include non-pharmacologic therapies
03:31 - One of the sessions at ACR discussed the effect of positive mindset on disease and pain management
06:38 - The speaker focused heavily on how individuals respond to adversity and why some people are more resilient than others
06:59 - When you experience adversity, what happens inside your body?
07:28 - People who are more resilient (ie have grit) tend to experience less pain
08:23 - People with military training tend to have strong resilience, so researchers studied grit in cadets by inducing pain in healthy subjects
09:13 - The cadets with the most positive attitudes had higher pain thresholds and more resilience to pain
09:40 - Other research has shown that depression and anxiety can trigger inflammatory responses and pa
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