Trail - Airing Pain 149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity

About this episode

This episode explores the complexities of chronic pain, including its origins in childhood trauma and the limitations of current pain measurement tools.

This edition of Airing Pain focuses on advances in understanding and managing chronic pain, from neuroimmune mechanisms to new diagnostic and treatment approaches. In this trailer, listen to excerpts from the full program on: how does acute, short term pain turn into chronic, persistent pain? Why do early life experiences affect later life pain? And why do existing tools for measuring pain fall short?

Topics covered

• chronic pain
• neuroimmune mechanisms
• diagnostic approaches
• treatment approaches
• childhood trauma
• pain measurement

Keywords

• acute pain
• persistent pain
• early life experiences

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