The Dangers of a Sedentary Lifestyle and How Movement Can Treat Chronic Pain and Prevent Disease with Dr. Andrea Furlan

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Birch Living, LMNT, and Thesis. One in five people is impacted by chronic pain. Many believe that chronic pain is simply a byproduct of aging, with little that can be done beyond managing it. Today’s guest offers a unique approach to chronic pain, sharing her mind-body practice for effectively addressing and alleviating it. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. Andrea Furlan to explore chronic pain, its top drivers, and common myths about treatment. Dr. Furlan discusses the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle in exacerbating chronic pain and reveals her unique approach to treating it. She also covers how diet, sleep, and alcohol can impact chronic pain and shares the most successful interventions for addressing it. Dr. Andrea Furlan is a scientist at the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) and physician and senior scientist at the KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehab, University Health Network(UHN). She is a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation professor at the University of Toronto. She is chair of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship at UHN and co-chair of ECHO Occupational and Environmental Medicine and ECHO for Return to Work of Public Safety Personnel at IWH. She is a physician in the pain clinic at Toronto Rehab and the author of the book 8 STEPS to Conquer Chronic Pain. A Doctor's Guide to Lifelong Relief. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Furlan dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): Chronic vs. Acute Pain (00:00:30 / 00:00:30) Top Drivers of Chronic Pain (04:07 / 04:07) Myths About Treating Chronic Pain (08:22 / 11:35) The Dangers of a Sedentary Lifestyle (11:20 / 14:30) How to Address Chronic Lower Back Pain (21:00 / 26:17) 8 Food Rules (27:40 / 32:57) Alcohol Use and Environmental Factors (39:18 / 44:35) Supplements to Support Chronic Pain (43:30 / 48:47) Fear of Chronic Pain (53:11 / 58:28) The Most Successful Interventions (57:15 / 1:02:32) Avoiding a Sedentary Life by Activating Joy (1:00:45 / 1:06:02) Mindset Matters (1:04:30 / 1:09:47) Also mentioned in this episode: 8 Steps to Conquer Chronic Pain: A Doctor’s Guide to Lifelong Relief To learn more about Dr. Furlan, follow her on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X/Twitter, or her website. This episode is brought to you by Birch Living, LMNT, and Thesis. To get 25% off your Birch Living mattress plus two free eco-rest pillows, head over to birchliving.com/dhru today. Right now, LMNT is offering my listeners a free sample pack with any purchase. Head over to DrinkLMNT.com/dhru today. Right now, Thesis is offering my community $60 off your first subscription. Just head to takethesis.com/dhru and use the code DHRU to enhance your cognitive health today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dr. Andrea Furlen, welcome to the podcast.
0:03.6	Chronic pain, as you know, better than anybody else,
0:06.4	affects about 1.5 plus billion people globally.
0:10.9	That's one in every five people that's out there today.
0:14.0	Now you're on a mission to help people conquer chronic pain and live a full life,
0:20.0	which is of course a multifaceted issue.
0:23.6	But I'd love to start off with the basics.
0:25.4	Help our audience understand the difference between
0:29.5	chronic and acute pain,
0:31.3	and then we'll get into some of the practical things including diets, exercises and
0:36.4	other mind-body practices that are available to us to help us get to the root of pain.
0:41.3	First of all, thank you so much Drew for inviting me to talk to your
0:44.4	audience is a great pleasure. So the difference you know what is acute pain what is chronic pain? A lot of people
0:50.6	define this by time so if you have a pain that lasts less than three months, it's acute,
0:57.0	and then if it lasts daily after three months, it's chronic. Well, that is what is in the books, but actually what happens at three months that the pain lingers,
1:07.0	and then some people will have the pain lingering for years and years, sometimes decades of their life.
1:14.2	So actually, there are some explanations.
1:17.7	If you have an acute pain, let's say a fracture
1:20.4	or an inflammation, a toothache, they, the body heals, we know that the body heals, everything,
1:27.8	and scars don't hurt. If the pain continues after the period that you expect the tissues to heal, the fracture is done,
1:38.0	the orthopedic surgeon looks at the x-ray side, everything is healed here, why you still have pain? It might be because now your pain
1:44.9	has transitioned to chronic pain which now is becoming a neurological disorder
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