If you have been interested in training for climbing for more than a few days, it’s likely that you know of Dr. Natasha Barnes. She’s not only a former national champion climber and champion power lifter, but is a doctor based in San Francisco who specializes in rehabilitation, orthopedic sports medicine and physiotherapy for climbers and lifters.

I’ve known Natasha for some time, and when I booked a workshop in San Francisco, I knew I had to sit down and get her on the show. Hopefully the first of many appearances.

In this episode we discuss pain - how we experience and react to it, as well as actionable ways to try and determine if it’s actually an injury - or just your brain convincing you that it is.

Pain Science Resources

• Lorimer Moseley “Why Things Hurt” TEDx Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLdIHjs

• Tame The Beast https://www.tamethebeast.org/

• Curable Health App https://www.curablehealth.com/

• Pain is Weird from PainScience.com https://www.painscience.com/articles/pain-is-weird.php

• Central Sensitization https://www.painscience.com/articles/central-sensitization.php

You can find Dr. Barnes online at https://natashabarnesrehab.com/

You can find her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/natashabarnes

Check out the all new and updated Proven Plans at www.powercompanyclimbing.com/proven-plans

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