In today’s episode, Amy chats with Neil Pearson, Neil is a physiotherapist, yoga therapist, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is the Co-Director of Pain Care Aware and creator of the Pain Care Yoga training programs for health professionals and yoga therapists.

Neil is the founding Chair of the Physiotherapy Pain Science Division in Canada, recipient of the Canadian Pain Society's Excellence in Interprofessional Pain Education award, and faculty in four yoga therapist training programs. He is the Lead Contributor of Pain BC’s Pain Foundations and Gentle Movement/Relaxation Series, and author of Understand Pain Live Well Again, and Yoga Therapy (chapter) in Thompson and Brooks, Integrative Pain Management 2016. Neil and Shelly Prosko are co-editors of Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain, along with Marlysa Sullivan. 

Amy & Neil talk about Neil’s journey and how he got interested in pain care, How Yoga Therapy plays a role in pain care, safety in Self and relationship, What Compassionate care is, and how Neil uses a scientific approach to compassionate care.

They talk about the following:

• How Neil got started in pain care
• Safety in your own body in pain care
• Safety in the relationship with your care provider
• The difference between research and clinical care
• Yoga and Pain care, How Yoga helps
• Research on the importance of Safety in pain care
• How the body muscles give messages to the brain and nervous system
• The idea of compassionate care in allied health settings
• Neil’s work with the Veterans Affairs of Canada and how he works with Veterans
• The book  Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain by 
• Neil’s thought about applying a scientific approach to compassionate care

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