22 Sleep and Pain: What's Driving What?

It's Not in Your Head - A podcast by Dr. Dan Bates & Justine Feitelson - Thursdays

Dan and Juz dive into the significant relationship between pain and sleep, and how it drives sensitization. They cover sleep basics, how lack of it long-term negatively impacts patients cognitively, and share a helpful analogy you can use as a patient to better explain what chronic pain feels like - especially with regards to increasing buckets of central sensitization. Dan then delves into the medical side of sleep, covering disorders including snoring, as well as various medications used to...