To Explain Pain Science; Just Ask Better Questions

really exciting topic today because you guys know I love to geek out about pain science and probably even more so than that, I love to geek out about how to make it simpler, how to make it very accessible.

We as OTs know how incredibly important it is to weave pain science information into everything we do, but we also want to do it with the most greatest simplicity possible because we're not there to overwhelm.

So that's where I developed this tool.

I'm joined by Carla Ellers, who has graciously offered to be my mock client.

And Carla and I actually go back.

We have a history of her being my mock client because for anyone who has seen my MedBridge course, Carla actually met me live and we filmed a session together.

And so this is our second or third time now, Carla.

We're on to something, I think.

Yep.

Yep.

I'll be your demo patient anytime.

That's awesome.

So everybody can see the tool on a screen.

You all also have access to it because it's in the meeting request itself.

And I can also just email it to you guys.

So I want to just simplify the tool for a second and say that it really does come down to this very simple idea, which is It's going to sound kind of silly, but stick with me.

There's a recipe for brownies.

There's a recipe for pain.

And so just as if, and by the way, this whole concept or analogy was actually borrowed from a pain psychologist by the name of Rachel Softness.

She wrote the book called Tell Me Where It Hurts.

It just came out about six months ago.

I read it page to page and I completely fell in love with it.

So the pain recipe is 100% all mine, but I borrowed it from concepts that she uses in the book, and I really put it into the OT framework.

And I really built it on her framing because I wanted to be able to have a tool where we can translate into something really tangible that you guys could use in the clinic tomorrow.

And so that's kind of the whole idea.