Hope For Healing: John Stracks, MD & Les Aria, PhD Provide Tips on Having "The Mindbody Talk"
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2021
- John Stracks, MD is joined by Les Aria, PhD, a pain psychologist who has been practicing for 18 years with Kaiser Permanente Medical Group.
The two discuss:
• How and when to bring up your interest in the mindbody component of pain
• Tips for finding clinicians who are aligned with your path
• How to make the most of limited time with your clinician - Наука та технологія
I can't thank you enough for this interview! I am not new to TMS but I've felt TOTALLY on my own when it comes to actually having a medical professional in my life that understands it! I am new to Kaiser and couldn't have felt more grim about getting help from them! I haven't had the experience of crossing paths with anyone in my area who knows about my CRPS, let alone how to approach it from TMS standpoint.
I paused the video to call Dr. Aria's office, and I'm feeling hopeful and actually excited! Who gets excited regarding CRPS?! THANK YOU ❤
I am in Sacramento (Rancho Cordova Kaiser Permanente) - have your primary care physician send a referral to pain management in Rancho Cordova. Looking forward to helping you get back to life!
So incredibly useful thank you! I love that part about engaging in the tug of war and getting more and more wound up. I have OCD and that metaphor really resonated with me because what really helps is dropping that rope! I also wanted to share with you my wife's story. She has had chronic migraines for the 10+ years I've known her. Last Christmas she had 4 strokes due to a tear in an artery from over stretching her neck. Since then we have been so puzzled as she no longer has migraines. The doctors are unable to explain why this. I was thinking about her as you talked and the language she used to use around her migraines. She used to say that she was convinced the next one would kill her, or that the pain was killing her. She would say there was something very wrong with her that was unfixable and started to say she couldn't cope with any more of them. Then the strokes. It was terrible. But we started to talk about nueroplasticity and how good the brain is at healing. The Drs told her that although she has 2 areas of damage they are astounded by her quick recovery and that there is no loss of function. She became more in tune with her body and when she was taking on too much or needed a break. I think this might have helped eradicate the migraines by writing a new narrative about her body and brain and helped her realise her body is on her side. I've put this theory to her and she says that even though she actually has more damage in the brain than before the strokes she is very confident that her body is not her enemy now, whereas before it very much was.
@@catasintiger - what an amazing journey for your partner! How we “relate to” what shows up (AKA, the unwelcomed thoughts, emotions, physical pains) determines if we reinforce or will de-activate the brain built-in defebse mechanisms = maintaining of pain. Much healing you and your partner
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Fear of pain is huge. I just went through major surgery and trying to learn mind control to deal with anxiety.
Keep doing this great stuff guys. Les is a great interviewee.
Thank you both for this informative talk!
I have a question about naming youre emotions.
May this also be words like frustration, tiredness..?
Lonelyness even?
(Or do they have to be just anger and fear?)
Hi There! Great question. Any sensations experienced = emotions and/or physical pains. Just naming “deactivates” the primitive parts of our brains, in that the brain /mind now knows what’s really going on ...the front part of the brain gets back online (like WiFi)...and that gives us ...clarity of our reality in that moment...and the opportunity to not be so identified with difficult sensations. I highly recommend the following book… Reality Slap by Russ Harris
Thank you!
I will turn my WI-FI on more often 😉
I love clarity
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Heard wonderful "all about" what it is, but very little "how" ...always seems to be the case.