#03 Rethinking Pain: Why Trauma, Trust and Integrative Medicine Matters
In this conversation, Dr Deepak Ravindran discusses the significance of integrative medicine with Elizabeth, emphasizing its role in pain management and the importance of a holistic, patient-centred approach. He highlights the need for diversity in healthcare practices, the shift towards lifestyle medicine, and the impact of adverse childhood experiences on chronic pain.
Their conversation includes how:
- Integrative medicine combines various madalities for whole health
- Pain management requires a person-centred approach
- Diversity in healthcare practices is essential for patient connection
- Trauma-informed care is crucial for pain management
- Adverse childhood experiences significantly impact adult health
- Neauroscience advancements are reshaping pain management strategies
- Hope is a vital component in healing chronic pain
More about our guest:
Dr Deepak Ravindran is a boundary spanning ‘upstreamist’ with a trauma informed approach to pain practice. He has over 20 years of experience in Pain Management having set up award winning NHS services for community pain and Longcovid for Berkshire. He is an expert in both pain medicine and lifestyle medicine. He lectures nationally and internationally on issues in Longcovid, Pain Medicine and Trauma informed practice and has regularly spoken to the media and television on these issues.
He is the CMO for the digital rehabilitation platform, Boutros Bear. He is a trustee of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and on the council for the British Society of integrative Oncology. Dr Deepak Ravindra n is a speaker and author of Amazon Best Seller “The Pain Free Mindset”. This book is aimed at patients suffering with pain but also immensely useful for all healthcare professionals in understanding all the recent advances around pain management in a trauma informed integrative manner.
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