Show Notes
Welcome to another episode of the Words Matter Podcast.
We are now up to Chapter 7 of the
CauseHealth book, and have entered part 2 of the book where will discuss the clinical application of the of the dispositionalist view of complexity and person-centred care that CauseHealth advocates.
In this
CauseHealth Series episode I’m speaking with Christine Price about her Chapter 7, titled
The Complexity of Persistent Pain – A Patient’s Perspective (read chapter
here).
Christine has experienced neuropathic (nerve) pain, which she has lived with since an injury in 2008. She writes
blogs and talks about her experiences of living well with pain, directed at both clinicians and patients. She is a regular presence on
twitter, posting resonating content, which check and remind clinicians on who and what we should be centring our practice on. You can find Christine on twitter via her handle
@LivingWellPain.So in this episode we talk about:
- Christine's persistent pain journey and her experience of the care she received early on.
- With the benefit of hindsight (and with a philosophical framework of causal complexity!) she reflects on the biomedical assumptions and models which lead to a standardised and ultimately ineffective management approach for her pain.
- How her own understanding on causation influences the way you understood her initial onset of pain and persistence in the first year.
- How Christine later met a physiotherapist Matt Low (who has been on the podcast twice previously (here and here), and is on the next episode of the series) and experienced care informed by a dispensationalist clinical framework, and the changes that resulted in she thought about her neuropathic pain and the subsequent self-management.
- How she developed an interest in philosophy, and became involved in the CauseHealth research and network.
- Finally, Christine’s chapter has been by far the most downloaded chapter in the book. We touch on why this might be the case and the main messages she wated to convey in the chapter and the importance of communicating philosophy to clinicians but also patients.
I’d been looking for an opportunity to speak with Christine on the podcast for a long time- and this
CauseHealth Series was the perfect setting. There is so much to learn from Christine’s story and her perspective on how mono-causal biomedicalism limited her recovery and her experience of the impact of a therapeutic interaction with a clinician adopting a complex view causality, with a clinical gaze focused on Christine as a person and her unique dispositions.
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