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The Chronic Shifthidden role of vit d in pain relief and moodDiscover how vitamin D plays a key role in chronic pain, inflammation, and nervous system balance — and why a deficiency might be affecting your healing.
2025-05-1507 min
The Chronic Shiftthe truth about ice fot inflammation and injury sciences vs myth"The Ice Illusion: What If We've Been Doing It Wrong?" In this episode, I dive into the controversial insights of Gary Reinl on why using ice for injuries might actually slow downhealing instead of helping it. We explore the myths around R.I.C.E., how inflammation is your body’s natural repair signal, and what to do instead to truly support recovery. A must-listen if you’ve ever reached for an ice pack
2025-05-1008 min
The Chronic ShiftAligning with Your Values. A Path to Meaningful Living Despite PainDiscover how aligning with your core values can bring clarity, purpose, and strength even in the midst of chronic pain. This episode invites you to reconnect with what truly matters, so you can live with intention, not limitation.
2025-05-0812 min
The Chronic Shiftthe Power of Acceptance How Letting Go Can Help You Live FullyIn this episode, we explore the deep emotional strength that comes from accepting what we cannot change. Discover how letting go of resistance whether to pain, expectations, or the past—can unlock peace, purpose, and the ability to live more fully. This is not about giving up... it's about rising differently.
2025-05-0412 min
The Chronic Shiftbalancing blood sugar for pain free livingDiscover how stable blood sugar levels can reduce inflammation, ease chronic pain, and boost your energy naturally. Tune in for practical tips to nourish your body and feel better every day.
2025-04-2907 min
The Chronic ShiftSugar Stiffness and Soft Tissue The Hidden LinkDiscover how sugar impacts your joints, flexibility, and soft tissue health in ways you might not expect. In this eye-opening episode, we explore the hidden connection between sugar and stiffness and what you can do to reclaim comfort and mobility.
2025-04-2211 min
The Chronic ShiftNourishing your Body to Ease PainDiscover the healing power of food. In this episode, "Nourishing Your Body to Ease Pain," we explore the foundations of functional nutrition and how targeted dietary choices can help manage chronic pain naturally rather than nourishing your inflammation and your pain.Learn how to support your body from the inside out one nourishing bite at a time.
2025-04-1511 min
The Chronic ShiftHow ACT helps you manage your pain and live fully againLiving with chronic pain can feel like a daily battle, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. In this episode, I introduce you to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a powerful approach that helps you stop fighting your pain and start living with purpose again.Discover how ACT can help you shift from resistance to acceptance, align your actions with your deepest values, and reclaim moments of joy even with chronic musculoskeletal pain.If you’re ready to move beyond survival and step into a life of meaning and presence, this episode is your first step. And for those who wan...
2025-04-0611 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaHow nutrition helped me heal my symptoms?In this industrial world, we have change the way we live, move and eat which as impacted our health and have been relying on medications to help us heal this chronic inflammation that is silent for decade or present through various symptoms that we either ignore or treat individually without success as the chronic inflammation is still present, how can we treat and heal from it, well we need to look at our gut, healing our gut may heal our inflammation and our symptoms this is my story ... how I have healed long lasting symptoms that were putting a lot...
2020-07-1129 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaLets talk about feet. Prevention adaptation and solutions part 3After 2 episodes talking about feet, shoes and their impact on our feet shape and low back, in this episode is shared tips and suggestions about what to do to prevent the dysfunction mentioned previously.
2019-05-1616 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaLet's talk about feet and heels. Part 2.Wearing heels change the whole balance and stability from the ankle,knee, hips, low back and all the way up to the head. In this episode we invite you to follow us into an experiement for you to experience the difference of being barefoot and elevate like wearing heels and the adjustements in place by your body and will share the consequences that may occur.
2019-05-0923 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaLet's talk about feet part 1.26 bones, 33 joints and 100 muscles just to control our foot, for some reason the way our shoes are shaped, compromise our foot mobility and restrain from the right firing order to be done when we walk which over time make cause bunions, and toes deformities such as hammer and can have a cascade effect and cause knee pain hip pain or low back pain, so what can we do to counter balance it? Just listen to find out.
2019-05-0222 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaSedentary vs Active lifestyle and risk of injuryI often hear mentionning their fear or disengagement toward physical activity to avoid injury, so they prefer to stay sedentary but this lifestyle has consequences. In this episode we discuss how to be active and prevent injury.
2019-04-1824 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaEpisode 8: the use of heat for pain managementHeat therapy can be used in different ways to help reduce and manage pain.In this episode I discussed different thermotherapy approach and how to use them, in which circumstances, they can help.
2019-02-2511 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaEpisode 7: if your back hurt it's your butt's faultAs we spend some time seated in our society from a young age... We are decreasing the activation of our glutes muscles, as a consequence other groups of muscle are overworking and causing compensation and with a lack of variety of movement and lack of activation of this latter, we are losing capacity of leg extension and increase risk of back pain.
2019-02-2520 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaEpisode 6: Motion is lotionif you don't use you it, you will lose it. The age process start from the age of 25, this is why we start getting stiff and start experiencing all these aches and pains. To keep yourself pain free and maintain healthy range of movement, you need to keep moving to lubricate your joints to strenghten your soft tissue (fascia), bones. If you don't use your capacity of movement overtime you may not be able to move as much so keep moving. Motion is lotion.
2019-01-2925 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaEpisode 5: what's sport massage?Some people have a misconception of what's sport massage? Thinking it is for athletes, active people only (or a painful treatment check episode 4 about this). Which in fact, is a treatment for everyone, from every level. This podcast will give you more understanding on the benefits of sport massage, and its goal to help you.
2019-01-2509 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaEpisode 4: Is it okay if my massage hurt?No pain no gain, has been applied to massage therapy for decades, we need to understand the nuances of being in discomfort during a massage which is different to being in pain...We need to understand the potential consequences for the :client perception, nervous system cooperation, soft tissue response, physiological response
2019-01-1513 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaEpisode 3: How often should I get a massage?People often ask: how often they should get a treatment/ massage.Everyone is different and it depends on your needs, what you are trying to achieve: reduce stress, being pain free, keep your soft tissue tension balanced... It depends as well on the initial tissue texture, how quickly your body is responsive to treatment and if you are having a variety of movement, activities to your mind and body balanced.
2019-01-1009 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaEpisode 2: What may happen when you keep ignoring the "signal"pain?In general, we take greater care of our car than ourselves, everytime we hear a weird sound we bring it the the mechanic to avoid a breakdown. The same as taking care of other than ourselves by listening to things episode you may hear an example of what may happen when you don't listen to the "signal" : the pain, and how bodywork can help
2019-01-0315 min
Pain Management Coaching by AizaEpisode 1: Is the use of Ice really beneficial post injury?For decades and decades we have been advised to use ice on recent injury/ trauma, explaining that we need to slow down and reduce inflammation process. But recent research showed that ice is detrimental for our recovery. Listen to understand what to do alternatively to improve recovery post injury.Ref: "Iced! The Illusionary Treatment Option by Gary R. Reinl"
2018-12-2709 min