Exploring the Pain Cave with Lloyd Emeka MSc, PhD(c) #219

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Episode overview:

Lloyd completed a BA (hons) in Business Administration at Staffordshire University and an MSc in Marketing Management at Aston University. He then proceeded to work in the advertising industry for several years before embarking on a career change in 2016.

Lloyd returned to academia after a thirteen-year break and completed a Postgraduate Diploma (conversion degree) in Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. After completion of the postgraduate diploma, Lloyd studied for an MSc in Applied Sport Psychology at St Mary’s University and graduated in 2021.

Lloyd has also held several committee and board member roles at the British Psychological Society (BPS), and he is currently Past Chair for the BPS London & Home Counties branch and an editorial board member for Sport & Exercise Psychology Review (SEPR) which is an international, peer-reviewed publication.

Episode highlights:

(25:17) What is “real” pain: associations between perceived pain and injury or tissue breakdown, societal portrayals and associations between pain and injury

(40:33) Seeking longer distances: graduating from 50 to 100 miles, adapting to the challenges of longer distance, the distance gap between training and racing, attraction to the unknown, challenge through duration versus intensity, being content with your race distance

(45:02) Athlete takeaways: capability through knowledge, discussing pain with peers and your coach, reflecting only our personal pain narrative, pain and prevention, managing pain is a learned skill

Additional resources:

Papers discussed-

‘Pushing through the pain cave’: Lived experiences of pain tolerance in male ultra-marathon runners

Portrayals of Pain in Children’s Popular Media: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Beliefs and Attitudes

LLoyd on X: @nathan78

Academic profile: https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/staff-directory/lloyd-emeka-staff-profile
ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lloyd-Emeka
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyd-emeka-msc-gmbpss-1262662
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpain.2022.898855/full

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