Rachel Zoffness

And that is true sometimes, but the reality is that pain is much more complicated than that.

Today, we talked with Dr. Rachel Zoffness about what pain actually is, why your thoughts, feelings, and the environment have a bigger role than most people realize, and how we can use that information to create better ways to deal with pain.

We focused mostly during this conversation on the psychological and the social, two parts of the biopsychosocial model that we spend a good amount of time talking about today.

But that doesn't mean that the bio is not really, really important.

I'm great.

I'm super psyched.

And we are also joined by a very special guest, Dr. Rachel Zoffness.

So Dr. Zoffness, thanks for joining us.

She is faculty at the UCSF School of Medicine, lectures about pain science at Stanford, and is a winner of the prestigious Mayday Fellowship.

With no further ado, here is Dr. Rachel Zoffness.

Dr. Zafnas, welcome to 40 Plus Fitness.

Coach Allen, thanks for having me.

Right.

And an episode I want to refer you back to would be episode 455 with Rachel Zoffness.

If you were to try to understand this a little bit and listen to anyone on behavioral therapy and how that affects pain and really understanding the psychological side of pain, this would be a really good episode to listen to.

And just how we talk to our body plays a huge role in the pain sensitivity that we feel on a day-to-day basis.

That's 40plusfitness.com forward slash muscle.

Next time on the 40 Plus Fitness Podcast, we meet Dr. Rachel Zoffness and discuss her book, Tell Me Where It Hurts, the new science of pain and how to heal.

Until then, have a happy and healthy week.

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We've actually already had that conversation.

It just happens to be the order that these things come out with, where we're talking with, uh, Dr. Rachel Zoffness about pain and chronic pain.

And in, in prepping for that episode, I, uh, ran into some research, so you'll hear this story twice on the podcast if you listen to both these episodes, about acupuncture that I thought was really interesting because, hey, my mom's an acupuncturist.

And as you know, Mother, I, I'm a bit of an acupuncture skeptic in my own little way.