Chronic Pain
Dr Rachel Zoffness: Managing chronic pain is about treating entire body
About 1 in 6 New Zealanders live with chronic pain. Psychologist Dr Rachel Zoffness believes that medical treatment of chronic pain often fails because it is based on a flawed model of how pain… Audio
Lauren Roche from troubled teen stowaway to GP and author
Author Lauren Roche has lived a life of constant reinvention. She was a high school drop out, who stowed away on a ship to the US at the age of 16. After being deported home she turned to prostitution… Audio
Chronic pain: retraining the brain's response
A New Zealand health-tech company is trialling technology that could help sufferers of chronic pain 'retrain' how their brain responds to nerve signals from the body. Exsurgo has developed a headset… Audio
Should hypnosis be used to convict criminals?
US law enforcement has been using 'forensic hypnosis' for decades to help solve crimes and also send people to death row, despite claims that it is nothing more than junk science. Dr. David Spiegel… Audio
Back pain should be managed like the common cold
Monash University professor Rachelle Buchbinder has spent decades trying to stop doctors from making bad backs worse. She explains why most people should be treating their back pain like the common… Audio
Proposed medicinal cannabis regulations released
The future of medicinal cannabis in New Zealand is beginning to come into focus after the Health Ministry published a list of proposed regulations for public feedback. They include who'll be allowed… Audio
Dr Hem Devan: dealing with chronic pain
A review published in the scientific journal of the American Physical Therapy Association, features the work of NZ medical professionals and researchers, exploring how patients with chronic pain can… Audio
The colour of pain, revolutionary blood test
A test developed by neuroscientist Mark Hutchinson identifies the intensity of chronic pain by colour bio-markers. Professor Hutchinson says it'll mean better diagnosing of pain in babies and people… Audio
Dealing with chronic fatigue and pain
Chronic fatigue and pain is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Dr Charles Lapp is Physician and Medical Director of Hunter Hopkins Centre in North Carolina, recognised internationally for his… Audio
Healing with the mind
John Dunbar is an orthopaedic surgeon in Dunedin who - despite his initial misgivings over whether the mind can play a part in feeling well again - has seen first hand how much 'training the brain'… Audio
The power of diagnosis
Diagnosis is one of medicine's principle tools. It explains what's going on, gives treatment options, provides a prognosis, and much more. Getting a diagnosis can be life altering, the diagnostic… Audio
Unravelling the mystery of chronic pain
Elliot Krane is a Pediatrician and Anesthesiologist and the Chief of Pain Management Service at Packard Children's Hospital at the Stanford School of Medicine. Audio
Written With Woe
Biographer and teacher of memoir Deborah Shepard about her own journal-memoir Giving Yourself to Life, and the significance of writing as a means to accept and deal with suffering. Audio
Stephanie de Montalk - Hurts Like Hell
Poet and biographer Stephanie de Montalk tells the story of the chronic pain that she has lived with for more than a decade in her new book How Does it Hurt. The book also investigates the lives and… Audio
Insight Sunday 10 June: Pain
Chronic pain is considered an under-treated public health issue, with no standard approach and long waiting times. Audio