How to Get Back to Your Favorite Activities, With or Without Pain (Dr. Asare Christian)

Like Mind, Like Body

Curable Inc.

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

There are two key questions Dr. Asare Christian asks each of his patients in their first meeting: “What is your understanding of why you have pain?” and “What has your pain prevented you from doing?” Answering these questions, he believes, is critical to developing a treatment plan that is actually going to work. In this episode, we examine each question in-depth, understanding why each is so important and what can be done with the answers.

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0:00.0	It's very, very unfortunate that individuals have no idea who have been in pain for years,
0:06.0	have no idea what pain is.
0:08.0	And if you don't know what pain is and something you've been dealing with your whole life,
0:12.0	how are you going to manage it?
0:18.0	Welcome to like mind, like body. I'm your host, Laura Sago, and today I am speaking with Dr. Asara Christian, a board-certified physician focusing on pain management, rehabilitation, and well-being medicine.
0:33.9	If you take a look at Dr. Christian's resume, it is very impressive.
0:38.5	He was the student of the year for physical medicine and rehabilitation during his time in medical school in Wisconsin,
0:44.7	before going on to complete his residency at Johns Hopkins, then a master's in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health,
0:53.2	and a fellowship at Harvard Medical School.
0:56.8	Most recently, he is the founder of Ether Medicine in Wayne, Pennsylvania, which is a practice
1:02.6	that focuses specifically on pain management and rehabilitation medicine.
1:08.6	Looking beyond his resume, however, what really stands out about Dr. Christian is the
1:14.8	curiosity and compassion he demonstrates towards his patients, which will become very apparent as you
1:22.7	hear him talk throughout this interview. We will cover all sorts of topics today, including what
1:29.3	self-discovery has to do with healing chronic pain, how you can improve your everyday ability
1:35.1	to function even before pain goes away, and also what we can learn from the different ways
1:42.4	that cultures define, interpret, and engage with pain.
1:47.5	As always, remember that this podcast is a part of the curable universe. If you are new here
1:53.9	and you are struggling with any kind of chronic pain or symptom, please, please, please start
1:59.5	with the curable app. It is 100% aligned with the concepts that
2:04.1	we discuss in this podcast. It has tons of exercises you can use to apply these concepts to your
2:11.0	unique situation. And best of all, you can get started for free at curable.com.
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