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Podcast: Pain Science Podcast
Episode: Episode 47 | Alan Gordon: The Mind Body Connection; Overcoming Chronic Pain
Description: If you have followed this podcast and studied pain for any period of time, you know that pain has sensory, cognitive and affective components. The sensory component is of course the thing that is the most obvious. It's what you feel on your body. It's the aching, the burning, the sharpness, the stabbing. The cognitive components is what you think about pain, what the cause of your pain is and whether or not you believe it's temporary or permanent, controllable or curable. The affective component consists of your feelings and emotions about pain: fear, worry, anger, anxiety, guilt. In...