#124 Fix your Pain with Dr Deepak Ravindran
27th Oct 2021
Today, I think I found my new favourite person. Somebody whose experience and intellect I respect and look up to. I am confident that if you love listening to this podcast you’ll love him too.
And I’m going to put this out there. If you know anyone who works in the NHS. A nurse, doctor, physio, dietitian, administrator, manager, literally anyone. Gift them this book: THE PAIN-FREE MINDSET. Not just because pain is a silent epidemic affecting over 25 million people in the UK alone, but because this book is just as much about how we change our approach to healthcare from one of purely patient service, to one of patient empowerment. And this eloquently written book describes how, with an open mind, how we all can create transformative change for patients and ourselves.
Dr Deepak Ravindran is an NHS consultant in pain medicine and what he describes as an ‘upstreamist’ with a trauma informed approach to pain practice. As you’ll hear today, he takes a truly holistic, trauma informed and integrated approach to pain management, who has a deep appreciation for the role of lifestyle, nutrition and the overlap between pain.
He has over 20 years of experience in Pain Management and is Clinical Lead in Pain Medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, UK. He is also one of the very few consultants in the UK who holds triple certification in musculoskeletal, pain and lifestyle medicine.
Today we’re going to learn all about Pain. The origins of pain, how pain is your brains interpretation of nociceptive signals and how, specifically in chronic pain, this can be affected by nutrition, emotional history, experience, childhood and many other influences. Foods for pain, supplements, psychological therapies and more.
Strap in, because this is going to be a fantastically useful podcast, and I do hope you share it with loved ones, friends and family.
Episode guests
Deepak is Honorary Professor at Teesside University, a full time NHS Consultant in Pain, MSK and Lifestyle Medicine and Author of the Amazon Bestseller “Pain Free Mindset”. He serves as the Deputy Editor of E-Pain Platform at Health Education England and The Chief Medical officer at Boutros Bear, a digital rehab platform. He is an associate with Peak Health Coaching and is working as Director of Lifestyle Medicine for a primary care network (PCN) of GP practices in Reading, UK.
Dr Deepak Ravindran adopts a trauma informed ‘upstreamist’ approach to pain practice and has helped set up award winning community pain service in Berkshire (IPASS) in 2015 and the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated Service (BLIS) in 2020. A Management Honours graduate from Henley Business School, he has been awarded the National Apprentice of the Year(2021) by Chartered Management Institute (CMI). He is part of the scientific advisory board at Curable, MyPain and PainD. His research interests include Longcovid biological mechanisms, Pain science education and behaviour change with the University of Teesside and as senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading.
The updated audiobook of his paperback Pain Free Mindset has been released in April 2024.
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