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Integrative Medicine MattersRethinking Pain: Why Trauma, Trust and Integrative Medicine MattersIn this conversation, Dr Elizabeth Thompson discusses the significance of integrative medicine with Dr Deepak Ravindran, emphasising its role in pain management and the importance of a holistic, patient-centred approach. He highlights the need for diversity in healthcare practices, the shift towards lifestyle medicine, and the impact of adverse childhood experiences on chronic pain.Their conversation includes how:Integrative medicine combines various modalities for whole healthPain management requires a person-centred approachDiversity in healthcare practices is essential for patient connectionTrauma-informed care is crucial for pain managementAdverse childhood experiences significantly impact adult healthNeauroscience advancements are reshaping pain management...
2025-07-1048 min
The Raelan Agle Podcast112: Long Covid Recovery Often Means Leaving the System That Made You Sick (Dr. Deepak Ravindran, MD)Send us a textIn this episode, Dr. Deepak Ravindran, MD shares how chronic pain, long covid, and ME/CFS can be treated through a modern, trauma-informed lens that goes far beyond prescribing medication.⭐ Dr. Deepak's YouTube channel — https://www.youtube.com/@drdeepakravindran🎤 Dr. Deepak's Pain speak Podcast — https://deepakravindran.co.uk/podcast/RESOURCES:📱 Recovery app on your phone? Try Curable—6 weeks FREE: http://www.curable.com/raelanagle📘 The Pain-Free Mindset by Deepak Ravindran, MD — https://amzn.to/42mHLeL📗 Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain by Lisa Feldman Barret —...
2025-05-0645 min
The Sleep Whisperer Podcast193 - Trauma Informed Care & Ability To Relax With Dr Deepak RavindranDr Deepak Ravindran has over 20 years of experience in helping people overcome their pain – in the NHS and private practice. He is one of the few consultants in the UK who possesses triple certification in lifestyle medicine, musculoskeletal medicine and pain medicine. He has been a consultant in pain medicine since 2010 in one of the biggest district general medical hospitals, the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. He is currently the clinical lead for the specialist pain services for all of West Berkshire since 2015. In 2020, he helped set up the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated service, one of 90 such cl...
2024-01-1010h 34
The Sleep Whisperer Podcast193 - Trauma Informed Care & Ability To Relax With Dr Deepak RavindranDr Deepak Ravindran has over 20 years of experience in helping people overcome their pain – in the NHS and private practice. He is one of the few consultants in the UK who possesses triple certification in lifestyle medicine, musculoskeletal medicine and pain medicine. He has been a consultant in pain medicine since 2010 in one of the biggest district general medical hospitals, the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. He is currently the clinical lead for the specialist pain services for all of West Berkshire since 2015. In 2020, he helped set up the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated service, one of 90 such cl...
2024-01-1034 min
The Autoimmune RESETManaging Pain in Autoimmune Disease with Guest Dr Deepak RavindranSend us a textDr Deepak Ravindran has over 20 years of experience in pain management and is one of the few consultants in the UK with musculoskeletal, pain medicine and board certified in lifestyle medicine. He lectures nationally and internationally on pain medicine and trauma-informed practice issues and has regularly spoken to the media and television on these issues.Dr Deepak Ravindran helped establish the award-winning community pain service in Berkshire (IPASS) in 2015 and more recently helped set up the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated Service (BLIS) in 2020. He initiated pain research in his department and is...
2023-07-0536 min
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast#174 Become pain free and take control of your health with Dr Deepak RavindranMy good friend Deepak is back on the podcast today speaking with Sakina. I had the most wonderful conversation with Deepak on the podcast before.Dr Deepak Ravindran is a boundary spanning ‘upstreamist’ with a trauma informed approach to pain practice. He has over 20 years of experience in Pain Management and is Clinical Lead in Pain Medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in the UK. He is also one of the very few consultants in the UK who holds a certification in musculoskeletal, pain medicine and is board certified in lifestyle medicine. Longcovid, Pain Medicine and Trau...
2022-11-2343 min
Airing PainSharing Pain - How Group Consultations Can Help Long COVID And Other Conditions
How the symptoms of long COVID are being managed using group consultations and the many things long COVID has in common with other long-term conditions.
Now that COVID has become a part of our day-to-day lives, so too has long COVID. So, with so much money now being directed towards researching treatments for long COVID, how might this impact the way we treat all manner of chronic conditions?
In this episode of Airing Pain, Paul Evans interviews the team at the Berkshire Pain Clinic, who run a specific long COVID service, on treating people with the...
2022-09-2750 min
Pain SpeakLongcovid - How to beat Brain Fog Part 2 with Dr Sabina BrennanSend us a textWelcome to the second part of this 2 part episode where I speak to Dr Sabina Brennan. a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, fellow podcaster and best selling author of the book on how to beat Brain Fog. As we know, Brain fog and congitive dysfunction is one of the most common sysmptoms noted in Longcovid. Treatments are still emerging and I thought it would be a fascinating and hugely useful to hear from a researcher and scientist and someone with lived exeperience herself on how to overcome brain Fog. Dr. Brennan discusses the r...
2021-07-2944 minPain SpeakLongcovid - How to beat Brain Fog Part 1 with Dr Sabina BrennanSend us a textIt has been a hugely gratifying and humbling experience to get the chance to set up the Longcovid Service for Berkshire and work with a great team from primary and community care. It has been 7 months now and we are still learning everyday about the condition of Longcovid and how it seems to affeect multiple systems. Right now we continue to offer them support, a listening ear, appropriate testing and treatments where available in a trauma informed manner.In this episode, I speak to Dr Sabina Brennan. a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, fel...
2021-07-2745 min
21st Century Pain SolutionsFundamental Mindset Shift needed to Reduce Pain with Dr. Deepak RavindraDr. Deepak Ravindran has over 20 years of experience in Pain Medicine and is Clinical Lead in Pain Medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, one of the busiest General Hospitals in the UK. He is one of the very few consultants in the UK who holds triple certification in musculoskeletal, pain medicine and lifestyle medicine. He also is an honorary consultant to the award-winning community Pain service, IPASS, for the county of Berkshire. Recently, he helped set up and leads the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated service. Dr. Deepak Ravindran is a speaker, podcaster and author of t...
2021-07-1938 minPain SpeakLongcovid - Chat with Darren Brown Co-Founder of LongCovid PhysioSend us a textIt has been a hugely gratifying and humbling experience to get the chance to set up the Longcovid Service for Berkshire and work with a great team from primary and community care. We have learnt a lot and are continuing to learn as we help our patients suffering from Longcovid and offer them support, a listening ear, appropriate testing and treatments where available in a trauma informed manner.In this episode, I speak to Co-Founder of Longcovid.Physio . - a global peer support and advocacy group for Physiotherapists (Physical Therapists) and su...
2021-05-1751 minPain SpeakLongcovid - What can be done about loss of taste and smell?Send us a textIt has been a hugely gratifying and humbling experience to get the chance to set up the Longcovid Service for Berkshire and work with a great team from primary and community care. We have learnt a lot and are continuing to learn as we help our patients suffering from Longcovid and offer them support, a listening ear, appropriate testing and treatments where available in a trauma informed manner.In this episode, I speak to associate Professor Jane Parker based at the University of Reading. Trustee and Advisor to the charity Abscent. A...
2021-05-1236 minPain SpeakLongcovid - Viewpoints from occupational health servicesSend us a textIt has been a hugely gratifying and humbling experience to get the chance to set up the Longcovid Service for Berkshire and work with a great team from primary and community care. We have learnt a lot and are continuing to learn as we help our patients suffering from Longcovid and offer them support, a listening ear, appropriate testing and treatments where available in a trauma informed manner.In this episode, I speak to my consultant colleague Dr Blandina Blackburn, Occupational Health Consultant. Dr.Blackburn has been working with staff at th...
2021-05-1132 minPain SpeakLongcovid - What are the effects on the brain?Send us a textIt has been a hugely gratifying and humbling experience to get the chance to set up the Longcovid Service for Berkshire and work with a great team from primary and community care. We have learnt a lot and are continuing to learn as we help our patients suffering from Longcovid and offer them support, a listening ear, appropriate testing and treatments where available in a trauma informed manner.In this episode, I speak to my consultant colleague Dr Abrar Hussain, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Berkshire health Foundation Trust and the lead fo...
2021-05-1025 minPain SpeakLongcovid - What is the role of the occupational therapist?Send us a textIt has been a hugely gratifying and humbling experience to get the chance to set up the Longcovid Service for Berkshire and work with a great team from primary and community care. We have learnt a lot and are continuing to learn as we help our patients suffering from Longcovid and offer them support, a listening ear, appropriate testing and treatments where available in a trauma informed manner.In this episode, I speak to my fellow colleague Tarryn Ashworth, a specialist occupational physiotherapist. Tarryn has been working with COVID patients admitted in...
2021-05-1027 min
PhysiosOnlineWhat's going on with Long Covid?A conversation with physiotherapist David Poulter and Pain Consultant Dr. Deepak Ravindran, consultant in Pain Medicine and lead for the Berkshire LongCovid Integrated Service (BLIS) in Reading, UK.
We discuss:
-The kinds of symptoms and problems people are experiencing when they present to the Long Covid clinic
-The finding that the vast majority - about 90% - of people with Long Covid are those who have had so-called "mild" disease, where they were not hospitalised.
-Theories of the mechanisms underlying development and persistence of LC
-Variability in how people respond to the virus
2021-04-271h 18Pain SpeakLongcovid - How can the respiratory therapist help you?Send us a textIt has been a hugely gratifying and humbling experience to get the chance to set up the Longcovid Service for Berkshire and work with a great team from primary and community care. We have learnt a lot and are continuing to learn as we help our patients suffering from Longcovid and offer them support, a listening ear, appropriate testing and treatments where available in a trauma informed manner.In this episode, I speak to my fellow colleague Frankie Knight, a specialist respiratory physiotherapist. Frankie has been working with COVID patients admitted in...
2021-04-2332 minPain SpeakLongcovid - What is the role of the fatigue and pain physiotherapist?Send us a textIt has been a hugely gratifying and humbling experience to get the chance to set up the Longcovid Service for Berkshire and work with a great team from primary and community care. We have learnt a lot and are continuing to learn as we help our patients suffering from Longcovid and offer them support, a listening ear, appropriate testing and treatments where available in a trauma informed manner.In this episode, I speak to my fellow colleague Harriet Wilkinson, A specialist pain physiotherapist with special interest in chronic fatigue management. She ha...
2021-04-2224 minPain SpeakLongcovid - Discussion with GP Anthony Collins BLISSend us a textIt has been a hugely gratifying and humbling experience to get the chance to set up the Longcovid Service for Berkshire and work with a great team from primary and community care. We have learnt a lot and are continuing to learn as we help our patients suffering from Longcovid and offer them support, a listening ear, appropriate testing and treatments where available in a trauma informed manner.In this episode, I speak to my fellow colleague Dr Anthony Collins, a GP by background. however he has worked in the Acute re...
2021-04-2246 minPain SpeakLongcovid - What do patients feel and want from a service?Send us a textIt has been a hugely gratifying and humbling experience to get the chance to set up the Longcovid Service for Berkshire and work with a great team from primary and community care. We have learnt a lot and are continuing to learn as we help our patients suffering from Longcovid and offer them support, a listening ear, appropriate testing and treatments where available in a trauma informed manner.In the first episode of this series, I speak to 2 patients who are part of the Longcovid SOS group .Each tell th...
2021-04-211h 16