Pain Care with Neil Pearson - Episode 105
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In conversation with Neil Pearson. Who is a physical therapist, yoga therapist and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, and faculty in four IAYT-accredited yoga therapy programs. He is also a consultant to the BC medical association, to 300+ clinics in Canadian largest rehab company, and to Pain BC, Canada’s premier non-profit transforming the way pain is understood and treated.
Neil is founding chair of the Physiotherapy Pain Science Division in Canada, and recipient of the Canadian Pain Society's Excellence in Interprofessional Pain Education award. Neil has authored a patient education ebook - Understand Pain Live Well Again (2008), a book chapter in Yoga Therapy (2016), numerous journal articles on yoga and pain including a recent white paper for the International Association of Yoga Therapists - Yoga Therapy and Pain: How Yoga Therapy Serves in Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management, and How It Can Do More (2020), and co-authored/edited the textbook - Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain (2019).
Neil offers Pain Care Yoga trainings to health practitioners and yoga therapist, Pain Care mentorships to practitioners passionate for deeper learning in pain science and pain care, online Pain Care Yoga videos, and Pain Care Aware™ training for yoga teachers. More at www.paincareu.com
In this podcast we talk about:
- What is Pain
- Movement as a healer
- Pain threshold & tolerance
- Yoga & Pain management
- Fibromyalgia and the likes
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