S7E10: Chronic Pain in Athletes: Medications & Meditation w Dr. Sud, MD, PhD

Season 7, Episode 10

Marc sits down with Dr. Abhimanyu Sud, MD, PhD, a physician and medical educator whose work focuses on the complex intersections of chronic pain, mental illness, and opioid use

SUMMARY OF EPISODE:

4:30 - Connection between chronic pain and mood disorders (depression/anxiety)

6:15 - What is chronic pain (vs. acute pain)?

8:45 - 4 common medications used for chronic pain

11:00 - Are opioids effective for chronic pain in long-term?

15:20 - The consequences of ignoring (or pushing through) pain?

18:30 - The side-effects of chronic NSAID use?

22:00 - Impact of meditation on pain?

24:40 - How does meditation change the brain (specific to pain)

30:00 - Where to start when learning meditation?

33:45 - What is pranayama (and how to use it)?

37:00 - Evolution of research in chronic pain and meditation

ABOUT DR. SUD:

physician, medical educator, and health services researcher based in Toronto, Ontario and Chief Scientific Officer for the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans. His clinical, research, education, and advocacy work focuses on the complex intersections of chronic pain, mental illness, and opioid use.

RESEARCH PAPERS:

Pharmaceutical company responses to Canadian opioid advertising restrictions: A framing analysis

Chronic pain trials often exclude people with comorbid depressive symptoms: A secondary analysis of 346 randomized controlled trials

Chronic struggle: an institutional ethnography chronic pain and marginalization

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