97: Natural Chronic Pain Relief – Dr Joe Tatta

Chronic Pain Relief Using Neuro Science

Hello, True Health Seekers! I'm thrilled to bring you this guest today. He will show us how to utilize the power of your mind and the latest in NeuroScience. So that you can end chronic pain and get some advice on chronic pain relief.

It is possible to help people stop using pharmaceutical drugs when there are natural alternatives in chronic pain relief that have so much science behind them. Dr. Joe Tatta helps patients achieve chronic pain relief without the need for drugs.

Tatta has an incredible understanding of the science of the brain. Furthermore, he will also teach us how we can re-write the programming in our mind so that chronic pain is a thing of the past.

His Inspiration

“I'm 44, my mom used to be a night shift nurse during the 80s at this place for adolescents with cancer,” Tatta said. “She did that for about five years, and I was eight years old. I watched her from being healthy to being sick. That's why she retired.”

In addition to that, Tatta says his mom was an inspiration why he wanted to be a doctor. He wanted to be in physical therapy to help people in pain.

Myths Of Chronic Pain

Tatta says there are a lot of myths around chronic pain. Furthermore, a lot of our thoughts about pain are handed down from generations. He says chronic pain is defined as pains that persist for longer than four months.

Among the perceptions of chronic pain are:

1. The only way to solve pain is through medication or surgery.
2. Pain is only felt if it is a physical injury.
3. Movement is wonderful for alleviating pain.
4. Persistent pain can't be healed.

“Language, the things we say, the phrases we hear and influence your pain experience,” says Tatta. “Or can affect how much pain you're having. Both intensity as well as duration.”

Cause Of Chronic Pain

Tatta explains that when your brain perceives danger, it will cause pain as an output. It is a way to motivate you to change your behavior. Hence, to do something to get out of that pain or get chronic pain relief. What happens in our nervous system is that sometimes we are not sure why this happens to some people and not others.

Furthermore, Tatta says, sometimes chronic pain is caused by emotional trauma. The knowledge of what pain is and what pain isn't is often the first step.

“Movement sends a signal to the brain that you're safe and that movement doesn't cause you harm,” said Tatta. “It tends to open the natural endorphins and re-pattern some of those neuro pathways that may have developed from pain turning chronic.”

Ways To Address Chronic Pain

Tatta says, for patients who have the worse type of pain, he uses a chronic pain relief called motor imagery. “We teach people how to move in their mind first before they move in real life,” he said.

Then there's something in your brain called mirror neurons. Tatta says mirror neurons turn on when you watch someone do an activity.

“We can leverage that ability in your brain. You can turn on pain. Because your brain is not ready for it yet,” explains Tatta. “Graded movement means you grade yourself in your mind the same you would do it as if  you were moving.”

Bottomline, Tatta said motor imagery and mirror neurons in your brain should be graded and dosed just like actual physical activity in your life.

Inflammation And Chronic Pain

Tatta reveals that about 50 million people have an autoimmune condition. It is an inflammatory condition. But often it begins in the gut, like a leaky gut. And when you have a leaky gut, you have undigested food proteins, bacteria or viruses.

Fungus or mold can get into your system. Or through the digestive system and cause stomach inflammation throughout your entire body. Consequently, these signs and symptoms start to overlap in patients with chronic pain.

In addition to that, Tatta says that anytime your nervous system is in this hyper-vigilant state, you get changes all over your body. Hence, the gut probably the one place you see most frequently.

“Patients with chronic pain often feel sad or depressed. Furthermore, often they will receive selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRI,” said Tatta. “When we can help modulate serotonin naturally.”

Steps To Chronic Pain Relief

Tatta gives these steps to stop pain:

1. Acknowledge we can move.
2. Imagine doing a movement, push your mind then do physically
3. Take out three foods from your diet for three weeks – gluten, dairy and sugar for
4. Do relaxation exercises
5. Be part of a support group

Heal Your Pain Now

Tatta's book is how to reset your body to a pain-free life and have chronic pain relief. He says he wrote it to educate people on how to relieve pain on their own. And also to have a paradigm pain shift. In addition to that, he aims to change the way we treat chronic pain by using natural strategies.

Dr. Joe Tatta is a doctor of physical therapy, board certified nutrition specialist and functional medicine practitioner who specializes in treating persistent pain and lifestyle-related musculoskeletal, metabolic and autoimmune health issues.  

He is the host of The Healing Pain Podcast designed to broaden the conversation around natural strategies toward solving the persistent pain. Dr. Tatta is the author of the #1 best-selling book Heal Your Pain Now; A Revolutionary Program to Reset Your Brain and Body for a Pain-Free Life.

He is currently in private practice and also provides Online Health Consulting to help people achieve a pain-free life free from chronic disease.

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