Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Conquering Your Fibromyalgia Podcast
Episode: Ep. 138 Pain Without Lesion, What's that? Important Historical Perspectives on Chronic Pain
Description: Text Dr. Lenz any feedback or questions In this episode Dr. Michael Lenz explores the historical understanding of chronic pain that lacks visible physical symptoms. He discusses stigma against sufferers, hypochondria, historical sex bias in pain understanding, and the transition in recognizing non-visible pain as real with the advent of functional MRIs. Dr. Lenz makes a case for the necessity of understanding the complexity of pain beyond the classic biomedical model and acknowledging the historical roots of current attitudes towards pain for better pain management in the present .00:00 Introduction to Chronic Pain and Stigma01:06 U...