Well-Fed Women · Noelle Tarr

The New Science of Pain: Why Your Nervous System Holds the Key to Healing

·1 hr 12 min·7 clips
Your nervous system is an alarm system that can become hypersensitive.
Host Noelle Tarr interviews Dr. Grant Elliott about the latest science of pain, focusing on how the nervous system influences chronic pain and debunking common myths about back pain. They discuss misconceptions like irrecoverable pain, the role of imaging, and practical strategies like graded exposure and movement-based therapies to retrain the brain and achieve pain-free living.

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Pain relief starts with the right movement, in the right dose.

The episode does best when it keeps movement concrete. It treats exercise as something that can help in the right setting and backfire in the wrong one, which makes the advice feel usable instead of broad.

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Why you'd press play

When your usual stretches seem to be part of the problem, this one helps you figure out the better kind of movement.

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