TED Radio Hour Pain Relief: New approaches to how we live with pain
Jun 7, 2024
Equestrian Kat Naud shares her journey towards Olympic dreams. Guests discuss rethinking pain as more than just a symptom and the evolution of pain management. Innovative approaches to pain relief explored, including acupuncture and exercise. Chronic pain challenges and opioid addiction addressed with multi-faceted solutions.
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Olympic Hope Shattered By A Rotational Fall
- Kat Naud fell in a rotational equestrian crash that left her with multiple spinal transverse process fractures and severe pain.
- She was airlifted to hospital and began a long recovery that turned acute pain into chronic suffering.
Dismissed In The ER, Lost Hope
- Kat recounts being dismissed in emergency care when a doctor asked, "what drugs do you want?" instead of examining her.
- That dismissal marked the start of her mental decline into despair and depression.
Pain As A Survival System
- Amy Baxter reframes pain as a survival system that can be ignored when it ceases to serve us.
- She argues we don't have to let pain define or rule our lives.