Your Body Is Not Broken: Pain, Rehab & the Resurrection | Dr. Edgar Urilov, DPT

About this episode

The episode discusses the relationship between pain, rehabilitation, and spiritual health with Dr. Edgar Urilov.

What if your body isn’t broken, but protecting you? In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast , Dr. Michael Christian & John continue the Post-Pascha Body Arc with Dr. Edgar Urilov , a physical therapist &Orthodox Christian, for a conversation on pain, fascia, rehab, stress, & the body that will be raised. After speaking with Buck Johnson about emergency care & Nicholas Cerean about strength & askesis, this episode asks the next necessary question: what happens when the body hurts? Dr. Edgar explains why pain is real, but not always a perfect measure of damage. The conversation moves through fascia as a sensory and stabilizing organ, chronic pain, nervous system sensitization, stress, myofascial release, rehab as askesis, & the deeper Orthodox question: Where is the wound? The episode also explores Mother Siluana Vlad’s God, Where Is the Wound? , the link between spiritual sickness & physical sickness, the danger of reducing grace to biology, &why Christian healing must involve the whole person: body, soul, mind, and spirit. In this episode: Why “your body is not broken” does not mean “your pain is fake” How chronic pain can lower the body’s…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr. Michael Christian, John

Guest: Dr. Edgar Urilov

Topics covered

• pain management
• rehabilitation
• spiritual health
• chronic pain
• Orthodox Christian perspectives
• fascia and movement
• nervous system

Keywords

• pain
• rehab
• fascia
• chronic pain
• nervous system
• spiritual sickness
• Orthodox healing

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: God, Where Is the Wound?

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