Dr. Rachel Zoffness, The Money & Science of Pain Management Healthy Wealthy & Smart

In this episode, Co-President of the American Association of Pain Psychology, Dr. Rachel Zoffness, talks about treating chronic pain.
Today, Rachel talks about the failed biomedical model, pain neuroscience, and effective non-pharmaceutical pain treatments. When is the right time to refer someone to a pain coach? What are some multidisciplinary approaches to pain management?
Hear about the biopsychosocial nature of pain, how pain treatment in the US is actually about money, how thoughts and emotions affect pain, and The Pain Management Workbook, all on today’s episode of The Healthy, Wealthy & Smart Podcast.
 
Key Takeaways
“What science tells us is pain is not purely biomedical. It’s actually this different and more complex thing, which is biopsychosocial.” “Pain is complex, and doing one single thing over years and years that has not worked, is probably not the right way to go.” “Pain is never purely physical. It’s always also emotional.” “Unless we’re taking care of our thoughts and emotions, we’re actually not really treating this thing we call pain effectively.” “If it’s okay to go to soccer coach to get better at playing soccer, it is surely okay to go to a pain coach to get better at living with chronic pain.” “96% of medical schools in the US and Canada have zero dedicated compulsory pain education.” “Pain, by definition, is a subjective experience.” “Keep doing exactly what you’re doing and follow your gut. Trust your intuition, and know that following the path of the thing that you love is the thing that’s going to bring you to where you need to be professionally.”  
More about Rachel Zoffness
Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a pain psychologist and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCSF School of Medicine, where she teaches pain education for medical residents. She serves as pain education faculty at Dartmouth and completed a visiting professorship at Stanford University. Dr. Zoffness is the Co-President of the American Association of Pain Psychology, and serves on the board of the Society of Pediatric Pain Medicine.
She is the author of The Pain Management Workbook, an integrative, evidence-based treatment protocol for adults living with chronic pain; and The Chronic Pain and Illness Workbook for Teens, the first pain workbook for youth. She also writes the Psychology Today column “Pain, Explained.”
Dr. Zoffness is a 2021 Mayday Fellow and consults on the development of integrative pain programs around the world. She was trained at Brown University, Columbia University, UCSD, SDSU, NYU, and St. Luke's-Mt. Sinai Hospital.
 
Suggested Keywords
Pain, Psychosocial, Emotional, Physical, Neuroscience, Treatment, Thoughts, Management, Healthy, Wealthy, Smart, Coach, Physiotherapy, Healing,
 
Dr. Zoffness Latest Podcast: Healing Our Pain Pandemic
Dr. Zoffness’s Book: The Pain Management Workbook
 
To learn more, follow Rachel at:
Website:          https://www.zoffness.com
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Instagram:       @therealdoczoff
LinkedIn:         Rachel Zoffness
 
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Read the full transcript here: 
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