About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of pain language in manual therapy and critiques the biomedical model in healthcare.

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever helped a client feel better while secretly doubting the explanation you were taught, this conversation is for you. Pain researcher Mark Johnson joins me to interrogate the quiet “hidden curriculum” in modern health care: a WEIRD, tissue-centric worldview that can be lifesaving in acute injury but can also trap both clinicians and patients when pain lingers. We talk about why the biomedical model still matters, and why it can also reach a point where it stops be...

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Host: Troy Lavigne

Guest: Mark Johnson

Topics covered

• pain language
• manual therapy
• biomedical model
• healthcare
• patient care

Keywords

• pain
• manual therapy
• biomedical model
• healthcare
• client care
• pain research

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