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The Pain Podcast

lepubscientifique
Pain Management
Chronic Pain
Pain
Functional Neurological Disorder
Physical Therapy
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Uncertainty
Patient Education
Time Constraints
Nociplastic Pain
Predictive Processing
Persistent Pain
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Self-Management
Clinical Practice
Acceptance
Quick Fixes
Pain Management Strategies
Flipping Pain
Surgery

Every episode of The Pain Podcast features interviews with world-leading pain experts, delivering practical solutions for your toughest clinical challenges. You’ll get cutting-edge insights, evidence-based strategies, and actionable advice to revolutionise your approach to pain treatment and transform patient outcomes.

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What happens when persistent symptoms start calling the shots? In this episode, Bart van Buchem and Tim Beames dig into the concepts of agency and body ownership in persistent pain — how they differ, how they're disrupted, and what clinicians can do ... more

Pain has no objective test — so people depend on language to share what they're experiencing. In this episode, Tim Beames and Bart van Buchem unpack how clinicians can become better listeners, why patient metaphors matter far more than we might think... more

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In this episode of The Le Pub Scientifique Podcast, Tim Beames and Bart van Buchem tackle a phrase many clinicians fear saying out loud: “I don’t know.”

Working in pain care means working with complexity, variability, and uncertainty — yet clinician... more

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What happens when we try to apply predictive processing models to fibromyalgia? In this exploratory conversation, Tim Beames and Bart Van Buckem work through the clinical implications of understanding fibromyalgia through the lens of prediction, unce... more

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Timmy Beames
Founder of Le Pub Scientifique
Le Pub Scientifique
Episode: Episode 76: “I Don’t Know” Isn’t a Failure: Uncertainty, Trust, and Clinical Confidence in Pain Care
Bart Van Buchem
Pain specialist physiotherapist
Episode: Episode 67: Navigating Difficult Conversations: When Patients Want Quick Fixes
Cormac Ryan
Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation at Teesside University
Teesside University
Episode: Episode 54: Marketing V misinformation in pain management with Prof Cormac Ryan
Alison Sim
Osteopath, PhD candidate with a focus on pain management
Episode: Episode 52: Preventing Chronic Pain after Injury with Alison Sim

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Bart van Buchem
Physiotherapist specializing in pain, clinician and guest expert on communication and assessment in pain care.
Tim Beames
Pain specialist physiotherapist and educator, host and co-host on multiple related shows, focused on uncertainty, storytelling, and patient-centered care.

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Episode 68: When Pain Persists: Reframing Success Beyond Pain Reduction
Q: When is a pain score still useful as a measure of progress?
It can be useful as a starting point for conversation, but it should be interpreted in the context of overall functioning, mood, sleep, and daily activities, with an understanding that scores can be variable and population-specific.
Episode 71: Pain & Identity - Practical Ways to Rebuild the Self
Q: Who are you when pain takes away what you love doing?
Tim explains that pain disrupts the self through a loss of roles and abilities, and that reconstructing identity involves recognizing multiple selves (e.g., dad, clinician) and gradually creating a new, empowered narrative.
Episode 74: When Assessment Becomes Treatment: Why the First Session Matters More Than You Think
Q: What's the risk of over-testing, and how do you avoid it?
Over-testing can diminish trust and overwhelm the patient; the key is to use testing judiciously, focusing on hypothesis-driven exploration rather than exhaustive checks, and always tying tests to the patient's narrative.
Episode 74: When Assessment Becomes Treatment: Why the First Session Matters More Than You Think
Q: How do you balance openness with clinical reasoning during an assessment?
You start from curiosity and neutrality, acknowledge your biases, and combine exploration with evidence-informed clinical reasoning to guide both the investigation and the relationship-building.
Episode 74: When Assessment Becomes Treatment: Why the First Session Matters More Than You Think
Q: What is the core idea behind using an assessment as an intervention?
The core idea is that the assessment itself can provide meaning, reassurance, and a framework for understanding the patient's experience, thereby shaping outcomes beyond the data gathered.

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The collection centers on evidence-based approaches to chronic pain, blending neuroscience with practical clinical tactics. Across episodes, experts discuss language and narrative in pain care, the role of uncertainty and shared decision-making, neuroplasticity and its implications for rehabilitation, and how assessments, sleep, movement, and daily activities influence outcomes. A recurring theme is patient-centered care: validating experience, co-creating meaningful goals, and using tangible, short-term experiments to build longer-term progress. The show frequently explores how clinicians can translate complex science into actionable strategies, while emphasizing trust, therapeutic alliance, and individualized care that avoids reductionist... more

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The Pain Podcast launched 4 years ago and published 77 episodes to date. You can find more information about this podcast including rankings, audience demographics and engagement in our podcast database.

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