The Pain Podcast
Interviews with the world’s leading pain experts.Internationally renowned pain researchers and clinicians share the latest and most exciting developments in pain treatment and understanding.
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Episode 80: Playfulness, Creativity & Variability in Pain Rehab - Why It Doesn't Have to Be Boring (opens the original)
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Rehabilitation for persistent pain often defaults to structure — sets, reps, progressions. But what happens when the people in front of you have already tried all of that? In this episode, Bart van Buchem and Tim Beames make the case for playfulness, creativity, variability, and abundance as genuine therapeutic tools. They share practical clinical examples including constraint-based learning, metaphorical movement, and using distraction to unlock different movement strategies. They explore when
Episode 79: When Pain Shrinks Your World — How to Open It Back Up (opens the original)
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Description: Persistent pain doesn't just hurt — it shrinks your world. Less movement, fewer social connections, reduced spontaneity, and a narrowing field of what feels possible. In this episode, Bart van Buchem and Tim Beames explore environmental enrichment as a clinical framework for reopening that world. Drawing on affordance theory and ecological psychology, they discuss how to reframe exercise as lived experience, why small and consistent wins beat dramatic interventions, and how shifting
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