{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Medicine","title":"There is a Chance Your Chronic Pain is Just a False Alarm","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3560,"description":"Daniel spent years in pain. Six orthopedists. Chiropractic care that helped for a day or two and then wore off. Trigger point injections. Acupuncture. An MRI and X-ray that both came back negative. A nerve ablation on the table as the next option.\nHe found Saint Bartholomew as what he called a Hail Mary.\nIn this episode of Medicine, Sean sits down with Daniel Wieber, the first client ever to appear on the podcast, to tell the full story. What every stop on the traditional medicine path looked like, what happened when the physical work stopped producing results, and what changed when they stopped chasing the symptom and started looking at the brain.\nThe answer was a book. A diagnosis called TMS. And a moment where Sean told Daniel he could not contact him again until the pain was behind him.\nThree to four months later, a text came through.\nWhat's covered:What idiopathic pain is and why a negative MRI can be more disorienting than a positive oneWhy chiropractic care kept providing two days of relief and nothing moreHow the nervous system creates a chronic pain loop that has nothing to do with structural damageThe neurological emergency brake - why the brain holds the body back when it perceives threatJohn Sarno's TMS framework and why Sean was hesitant to introduce itWhy symptoms were worse at work and almost gone on weekendsThe faith over fear principle and what it actually requires to workSean's own ocular migraine story and what happened when he chose to go through it anywayWhy coming back for sessions was itself part of the problemHow the same pattern is now showing up in Daniel's knee\nThis episode is for anyone who has exhausted the traditional pathways, gotten clearance from multiple doctors, and still cannot find a reason for the pain they are living with every day.\nFrom Medicine, presented by Saint Bartholomew - a conversation series on the truth of pain, performance, and optimal health.\nSaint Bartholomew\nThe Patron Saint of Chronic Pain\nNew York City...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3G_G1mCE76HmDdKHP2C6I5V5Yr8KykfvhTvYgyi0RvY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNTFm/YTE5NTkzZGVmODJh/NTEwODFhMzMzNDg1/NmE4Mi5QTkc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}