Chronic Pain Disease: Is all pain physical? with Dr. Sheetal DeCaria

Medical Myths, Legends & Fairytales

Between the latest online fads and the crazy media headlines, it’s easier more than ever to get confused about your health. If you want to make better decisions about your health so you can feel better and live longer, you’ve come to the right place.

Would you believe that we don't know the cause of most back pain? You would think that it would be the variation or the compressed nerve but those things don't explain it. Chronic Pain is a fair amount of a mystery and sadly, a lot of people do not align with what we know but only base on myths or misinformation.

In this episode, we discuss:

(1:50) Introduction to Dr. Sheetal DeCaria

(3:00) Typical presentation on the concerns around pain

(4:30) Understanding Pain

(6:01) How does the body process pain?

(8:02) Cultural receptivity on pain

(10:05) Categorization of pain patterns

(10:42) Acute pain

(11:02) Psychological stress

(11:24) Centralized pain

(12:30) How do you know if it’s chronic pain?*

(14:10) Placebo surgeries

(19:02) Factors on how to figure out chronic pain

(21:20) Impact of nutrition on pain

(22:22) Mediterranean and Inflammatory diet

(24:55) Elimination diet

(25:47) Exercise and physical activities in relation to pain

(28:55) Fear of labeling with chronic pain

(29:50) Symptoms of pain

(31:10) Interventional Medicine

(32:16) Patterns to complex pains and other factors

(34:15) The 90-day program to diagnose and eliminate the root cause of pain.

(36:22) Insights on chronic pain prognosis

(39:00) Taking on and improving pain

Dr. Sheetal DeCaria is double-board certified in anesthesia and pain management by the American Board of Anesthesiology. She has pursued further education in integrative medicine, including a year-long faculty scholars program at the Northwestern Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, as well as coursework through the Institute of Functional Medicine and American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.

She is the bestselling author of the new book, Break the Chronic Pain Cycle: A 90 Day Program to Diagnose and Eliminate the Root Cause of Pain https://www.drdecaria.com/book/ , and often serves as a medical expert for news stations around the country.

Check out her New Online Health Course (https://www.revitalizewellnesscenter.com/?r_done=1) as well! For more details, visit her website, www.drdecaria.com or Instagram page @drdecaria

Mind Body Pain resources:

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and Pain: A Psychoneuroendocrine Rationale for Stress

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1816–1825.

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Central Pain Resources:

1. Cordero, MD, De Miguel, M, Moreno Fernández, AM, et al.

“Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Mitophagy Activation in Blood

Mononuclea Cells of Fibromyalgia Patients: Implications in the

Pathogenesis of the Disease.” Arthritis Res Ther. 2010; 12, R17.

1. Tan EC et al. “Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Muscle Tissue of CRPS

Type I Patients.” Eur J Pain. 2011; 15(7): 708–715.

1. Gerdle et al. “Chronic Widespread Pain: Increased Glutamate and

Lactate Concentrations in the Trapezius Muscle and Plasma.” Clin J

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