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Aug 18, 2026
Chronic Pain, Dismissal and the Path to Recovery with Virginia McIntyre
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George DowswellHOST
So I've obviously given a bit of an introduction, but it'd be really helpful to have a bit more of your perspective of how your journey has been up to this point.

Virginia McIntyreGUEST
So I guess we'll start at the beginning, and like you had said, I had been a workplace injury that led to a shoulder surgery.

Virginia McIntyreGUEST
So for me, going into the surgery was like, okay, it'd be, you know, you go for the surgery, six weeks you're, you're back to work, you're back to doing everything you used to do.

Virginia McIntyreGUEST
I had my super cape on, and off I was going, in six weeks I'd be back to work.

Virginia McIntyreGUEST
Much to my surprise, when I woke up from the s- surgery, I had this awful, ungodly pain in my back, and it just changed everything for me, 'cause as I would go to the physios and physios and physios and osteopath and massage, and anybody I could talk to, I was constantly dismissed and saying, "Well, the surgery went well." And even the surgeons, the surgery went well, and that was the whole thing.
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George DowswellHOST
We give people prognoses which we don't really have any strong backing for, and we tell people that they should limit themselves all the time based on tiny snapshots into their lives.