https://painmd.tv/60-day-peripheral-nerve-stimulation/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dT-DHSzwuSk/maxresdefault.jpg The X-Ray Is Perfect and the Knee Still Burns: What a 60-Day Nerve Stimulator Is Actually Testing A temporary 60-day nerve stimulator tests whether one nerve is driving your pain. What the wire does, what the trials show, and where the data runs out. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dT-DHSzwuSk 618 2026-07-31T02:29:42-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/acceptance-commitment-therapy-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JeV-vwbmfWE/maxresdefault.jpg Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: What the Evidence Actually Shows How pain-related fear and avoidance shrink your world, what ACT actually does, and what 33 randomized trials show — including where they fall short. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JeV-vwbmfWE 662 2026-07-30T15:00:59-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/addiction-pain-diabetes-metabolic-syndrome/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TXAwyo92yXw/maxresdefault.jpg Addiction, Chronic Pain and Type 2 Diabetes Share One Substrate Why addiction, chronic pain and type 2 diabetes cluster in the same patients, what metabolic syndrome has to do with it, and why treating them together works better. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TXAwyo92yXw 3307 2024-10-03T21:59:53-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/ages-glycation-chronic-pain-stiffness/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W-xqJTVglS4/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 9 — AGEs: The Sticky Sugar Damage Behind Stiff, Painful, Aging Tissue Advanced glycation end products stiffen collagen and can trap nerves, driving pain often dismissed as aging. How glycation works and what slows it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/W-xqJTVglS4 270 2026-06-27T04:21:24-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/alcohol-acetaldehyde-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/03TAqG6r3OM/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 20 — Alcohol, Acetaldehyde, and Pain: The Connection You Weren't Told About The nightly drink to take the edge off may feed your pain: draining nerve nutrients, sensitizing nerves, and wrecking the sleep you heal by. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/03TAqG6r3OM 280 2026-06-27T04:56:01-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/artificial-light-at-night-healing-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ljONttB9Ix8/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 47 — Artificial Light at Night: The Modern Exposure That Disrupts Healing Artificial light after dark suppresses melatonin and disrupts cortisol—stalling repair and pain relief. Learn one of the most fixable pain levers. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ljONttB9Ix8 282 2026-06-27T07:19:01-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/behavioral-definition-of-trauma/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HtLT1mHEB7Q/maxresdefault.jpg What Trauma Actually Is: A Behavioral Definition You Can Measure Why DSM-5 removed the requirement that you felt fear during the event, what the four symptom clusters are, and how defining trauma by behavior makes it measurable. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HtLT1mHEB7Q 458 2026-07-31T06:13:05-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/burning-foot-pain-after-injury-lumbar-sympathetic-chain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XE2XtsbZ6ew/maxresdefault.jpg Why One Foot Burns, Swells, and Changes Color After the Cast Comes Off One foot burns, swells and changes color after a healed fracture. What the lumbar sympathetic chain does, and what a block can honestly tell you. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XE2XtsbZ6ew 646 2026-07-31T02:26:09-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/central-sensitization-scan-does-not-match-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RfaASpjG-WU/maxresdefault.jpg Why Your Scan Doesn't Match Your Pain: Central Sensitization Explained A frightening MRI can belong to a comfortable person and a clean MRI to someone in agony. Central sensitization explains both — and what actually turns the volume down. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RfaASpjG-WU 375 2026-07-31T06:11:07-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/chronic-back-pain-keeps-coming-back-exercise-manipulation/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q_KkH3-qXWA/maxresdefault.jpg Chronic Back Pain That Keeps Coming Back: What Exercise and Adjustments Actually Do Why the pop wears off by Thursday, what exercise therapy really changes, and what 249 trials found — including where the benefit falls short. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Q_KkH3-qXWA 650 2026-07-31T02:32:25-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/chronic-pancreatitis-pain-when-enzymes-are-normal/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PFq8PzUljH4/maxresdefault.jpg Chronic Pancreatitis Pain When the Enzymes Are Normal: Why the Gland Goes Quiet and the Pain Does No Why pancreatitis pain continues after the enzymes go normal: nerve remodeling, the celiac plexus, and what a plexus block can and cannot do. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PFq8PzUljH4 625 2026-07-31T02:27:55-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/circadian-mitochondria-meal-light-timing-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N9WMzwcjGO8/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 39 — Circadian Desynchrony of the Mitochondria: Eating and Light Timing Tired by day, unrefreshed by night? Your mitochondria run on a clock. See how light and meal timing desynchronize them and feed chronic pain. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/N9WMzwcjGO8 306 2026-06-27T06:14:33-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/circadian-rhythm-disruption-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XFG8GVlF22s/hqdefault.jpg The Hidden Drivers of Chronic Pain — EPISODE 10 Circadian Rhythm Disruption How a broken internal clock takes your natural painkillers and anti-inflammatories offline, and how the Padda Institute resets it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XFG8GVlF22s 250 2026-06-27T04:26:31-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/cluster-headache-watering-eye-nerve-reflex/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jBI75MG8l1Q/maxresdefault.jpg The Watering Eye and the Blocked Nostril: The Nerve Reflex Behind Cluster Headache and Migraine A one-sided headache with a watering eye and blocked nostril is a nerve reflex, not sinus disease. What is firing, and what a block can and cannot do. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jBI75MG8l1Q 650 2026-07-31T02:49:21-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/complex-regional-pain-syndrome-diagnosis-budapest-criteria/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WQ3_gzQB7Ew/maxresdefault.jpg The Bone Healed. The Hand Did Not: Understanding Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Limb pain far worse than the injury, with swelling and color change? How complex regional pain syndrome is diagnosed and what the evidence supports. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WQ3_gzQB7Ew 662 2026-07-30T15:10:20-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/diabetic-neuropathy-burning-feet-at-night/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1dGxOoFm7GQ/maxresdefault.jpg Why Diabetic Nerve Pain Burns at Night — and Why the Same Foot Feels Nothing Diabetic nerve pain burns at night yet the same foot feels nothing. Here is why the longest nerves fail first, and what the evidence really supports. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/1dGxOoFm7GQ 655 2026-07-30T15:13:01-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/dietary-guidelines-1977-what-went-wrong/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E9a-f-9M-LY/maxresdefault.jpg How the 1977 Dietary Guidelines Went Wrong — and Why It Took Fifty Years to Admit Diet-related disease now causes more death than inactivity, smoking and alcohol combined. How the low-fat guidance was made, and why the evidence never supported it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/E9a-f-9M-LY 307 2026-07-31T05:59:59-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/dr-padda-doctor-whisperer-metainflammation/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wtC8n6WRn9Q/hqdefault.jpg The Doctor Whisperer Show featuring Dr. Gurpreet Padda Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP, in conversation with Sharon Fekety on The Doctor Whisperer, on metabolic inflammation as a shared driver of the pain, opioid and diabetes epidemics. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wtC8n6WRn9Q 2022-09-19T13:00:36-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/endocrine-disruptors-metabolism-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nNrwB6U6Z5I/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 13 — Endocrine Disruptors: How Everyday Toxins Sabotage Your Metabolism and Pain BPA and phthalates can push your metabolism toward the insulin resistance and inflammation behind chronic pain. Learn what they do and how to reduce it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nNrwB6U6Z5I 250 2026-06-27T04:39:15-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/endocrine-disruptors-visceral-fat-nerve-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FAl3mmBkB7g/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 41 — EDCs: The Hidden Drivers of Visceral Fat and Nerve Sensitization How common chemicals like BPA and phthalates push visceral fat, insulin resistance, and nerve sensitization—and what the Padda Institute does about it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FAl3mmBkB7g 151 2026-06-27T07:06:46-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/endoplasmic-reticulum-stress-healing-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sjKBbR_TqjA/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 37 — Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress: Cells Are Too Stressed to Heal Tissue that won't heal may be stuck in survival mode. Learn how endoplasmic reticulum stress diverts cells away from repair and keeps chronic pain going. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sjKBbR_TqjA 252 2026-06-27T06:10:06-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/environmental-stress-amplifies-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bY9v-PIBh8s/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 49 — The Invisible Stressor in Your Environment That Amplifies Pain Your nervous system reads constant noise as threat—keeping you in fight-or-flight, blocking repair and amplifying pain. Learn this overlooked driver. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bY9v-PIBh8s 270 2026-06-27T07:21:56-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/epidural-steroid-injection-how-it-works/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w3KHbMY7EOk/maxresdefault.jpg Why an Inflamed Nerve Root Burns — and What an Epidural Steroid Injection Actually Does Burning leg or arm pain is chemical, not just pressure. How an epidural steroid injection targets an inflamed nerve root, and what the evidence shows. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/w3KHbMY7EOk 622 2026-07-31T02:12:12-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/facet-joint-pain-diagnosis-medial-branch-block/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xI2uitLnr5E/maxresdefault.jpg Back Pain That Gets Worse When You Arch and Twist: What Facet Joints Actually Do Facet joints can drive low back pain that worsens when you arch or twist — but no MRI proves it. How a medial branch block answers the question. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xI2uitLnr5E 670 2026-07-31T02:14:59-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/facet-joint-pain-medial-branch-nerves/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Wm4ohHu5mV8/maxresdefault.jpg Facet Joint Pain and the Medial Branch Nerves: What Ablation Actually Does Facet pain travels along the medial branch nerves. How ablation works, why diagnostic blocks come first, and what controlled trials really show. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Wm4ohHu5mV8 642 2026-07-31T02:17:02-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/glial-cell-warburg-shift-central-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YM4VHx4Wgjw/hqdefault.jpg Episode 36 — The "Warburg" Shift in Glial Cells: Reprogramming Behind Stubborn Central Pain Stubborn central pain can persist because glial cells get stuck in a Warburg-like energy mode that keeps your nervous system sensitized. Here's the switch. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/YM4VHx4Wgjw 298 2026-06-27T06:08:11-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/headache-that-starts-in-the-neck/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r7sqT9XjMuU/maxresdefault.jpg When the Headache Starts in Your Neck: Occipital Neuralgia, Cervicogenic Headache, and the Test That One-sided head pain that starts under the skull may come from your neck, not your brain. How occipital neuralgia and cervicogenic headache are told apart. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/r7sqT9XjMuU 673 2026-07-31T02:38:58-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/hip-joint-pain-groin-not-back/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RTqALhb1AjE/maxresdefault.jpg Deep Groin Pain When You Stand Up: Why the Hip Joint Is So Often the Source Deep groin pain when you stand? Why researchers think hip arthritis pain is partly inflammatory, how it is told apart from back pain, and what comes next. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RTqALhb1AjE 617 2026-07-31T02:19:05-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/hyperinsulinemia-chronic-pain-mechanism/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-l8IMXd4jxc/maxresdefault.jpg Hyperinsulinemia and Chronic Pain: How High Insulin Makes You Hurt How chronically elevated insulin drives the inflammation, nerve dysfunction and impaired healing behind persistent pain — and why glucose testing alone misses it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-l8IMXd4jxc 1030 2020-01-07T01:30:00-08:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/inflammation-diet-chronic-pain-hormones/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OaomaNG3MYY/hqdefault.jpg Inflammation, Chronic Pain, Hormones & Diet Dr. Padda on how metabolic inflammation, visceral fat, seed oils and sugar keep chronic pain alive, and the diet steps his clinic uses to cool it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/OaomaNG3MYY 3828 2023-01-20T09:00:18-08:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/insulin-resistance-before-diabetes/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O71ztLMnreQ/maxresdefault.jpg Insulin Resistance Comes Years Before Diabetes — and Your Glucose Test Will Miss It Fewer than 1 in 8 US adults is metabolically healthy. Why insulin rises years before glucose does, and what to ask your physician to measure. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/O71ztLMnreQ 355 2026-07-31T05:56:36-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/internal-disc-disruption-back-pain-normal-mri/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lYPcq2SBvkE/maxresdefault.jpg Deep Low Back Pain With a Normal MRI: Understanding Internal Disc Disruption Your MRI looks unremarkable but sitting is unbearable. How a disc can generate deep back pain without nerve compression, and when a discogram helps. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/lYPcq2SBvkE 656 2026-07-31T02:07:03-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/is-my-pain-medication-making-my-pain-worse/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G4idCYEL7bY/hqdefault.jpg More Drug, More Pain: Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia Explained Why a higher opioid dose can produce worse pain, how opioid-induced hyperalgesia differs from tolerance, and the four problems that present identically. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/G4idCYEL7bY 661 2026-07-29T03:48:51-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/ketamine-crps-rsd-evidence-by-route/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LDb_TgS2PU4/maxresdefault.jpg Ketamine for a Limb That Burns After the Injury Healed: Why the Route Changes the Evidence Ketamine is three treatments sharing one molecule. What controlled trials show for IV, topical and sublingual routes in CRPS and RSD — and what they don't. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LDb_TgS2PU4 621 2026-07-31T02:24:10-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/leptin-resistance-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_6fSyOaU7OI/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 3 Leptin Resistance & Chronic Pain Why leptin resistance can make chronic pain run hotter than your scans explain, and what the Padda Institute does about it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/_6fSyOaU7OI 383 2026-06-21T14:04:01-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/light-exposure-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nk-LciS-Le4/hqdefault.jpg What Does Light Have To Do with Pain | Padda Institute Of Pain Management | Dr Gurpreet Padda Sunlight is more than what you see. Learn how daytime infrared light drives your body's anti-inflammatory melatonin and why it matters for pain. Padda STL. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Nk-LciS-Le4 454 2023-04-13T02:39:58-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/low-fat-diet-evidence-dietary-fat/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lrSr3GK-SEs/maxresdefault.jpg What 53 Trials and 68,128 People Actually Showed About Low-Fat Diets 53 randomised trials, 68,128 participants, all a year or longer. What the evidence says about low-fat diets, saturated fat, and the marker that predicts risk better than LDL. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/lrSr3GK-SEs 358 2026-07-31T06:02:20-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/lymphatic-drainage-swelling-stiffness-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rMC6K-YkBLw/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 23 — The Drainage Problem Behind Stubborn Swelling, Stiffness, and Pain Your lymphatic system clears waste from around your nerves, but it has no pump. When flow stalls, waste pools and pain climbs. How to get flowing again. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rMC6K-YkBLw 244 2026-06-27T05:14:18-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/magnesium-vitamin-d-b-vitamins-nerve-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/16swF_P8_WI/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 8 — Magnesium, Vitamin D, and B-Vitamins: The Quiet Deficiencies That Drive Pain How quiet deficiencies in magnesium, vitamin D, and B vitamins can drive nerve pain, cramps, and tingling, and how to correct them. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/16swF_P8_WI 303 2026-06-27T04:15:05-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/measuring-ptsd-recovery-pcl-5/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tiloL1aOpz8/maxresdefault.jpg Measuring Recovery After Trauma: The PCL-5, Event Centrality, and How Treatment Works How trauma recovery is tracked with objective scores, why event centrality predicts distress better than event severity, and what habituation actually does. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/tiloL1aOpz8 493 2026-07-31T06:17:12-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/metabolic-disease-dietary-root-cause/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OpcsvACzVtA/maxresdefault.jpg Treating Metabolic Disease at the Dietary Root Cause The case for treating obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome through diet rather than medication — and an honest look at where elimination diets like carnivore fit. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/OpcsvACzVtA 4872 2024-10-27T18:00:06-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/methylation-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YkwX_Q1hg30/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 16 — Methylation: The Cellular Process Behind Some of the Most Stubborn Pain Faltering methylation lets metabolic waste build up and sensitize your nerves. Learn how this hidden process may fuel unexplained, stubborn pain. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/YkwX_Q1hg30 254 2026-06-27T04:47:41-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/microvascular-dysfunction-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Zcu5vQdj8m8/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 27 — Tiny Blood Vessels, Big Pain: The Microvascular Cause No Scan Shows Deep, aching pain but your circulation tests came back fine? The problem may be in your smallest vessels—where standard scans never look. Here's why. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Zcu5vQdj8m8 253 2026-06-27T05:32:31-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/mitochondrial-dysfunction-cellular-energy-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hBiOKoVD1X8/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 33 — "Zombie" Power Plants: Why Your Cells Can't Make Clean Energy Anymore When your cells can't clear damaged mitochondria, zombie power plants pile up and feed pain. Learn how mitophagy, mTOR, and meal timing fit in. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hBiOKoVD1X8 248 2026-06-27T05:48:25-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/mitochondrial-network-fragmentation-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qx3xQf64Xr8/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 34 — Fragmented and Inefficient: When Your Mitochondria Lose Their Network Deep muscle fatigue and burning nerve pain no one can explain? Learn how stress fragments your mitochondrial network and how the grid can be rebuilt. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Qx3xQf64Xr8 282 2026-06-27T05:51:20-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/mri-fluoroscopy-ultrasound-pain-diagnosis/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/47QtgxCKe9w/maxresdefault.jpg Your MRI Report Is Not a Diagnosis: What Imaging Can and Cannot Show About Pain Your MRI report describes tissue, not pain. See what MRI, fluoroscopy and ultrasound each can show, and how a diagnostic block finds the source. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/47QtgxCKe9w 629 2026-07-30T15:23:48-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/myokine-deficiency-muscle-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XDdau1ctDek/hqdefault.jpg The Hidden Drivers of Chronic Pain — Episode 14 Myokine Deficiency Working muscle releases anti-inflammatory myokines. When pain keeps you still, that natural medicine goes quiet. How movement can reverse the spiral. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XDdau1ctDek 228 2026-06-27T04:41:31-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/neck-pain-months-after-car-accident/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oiFF4wct2uc/maxresdefault.jpg Neck Pain Months After a Car Accident: Where It Often Comes From Most whiplash settles in 6-12 weeks. When neck pain outlasts three months, a cervical facet joint is often the source — and it can be tested. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/oiFF4wct2uc 646 2026-07-30T15:03:35-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/opioid-bankruptcy-why-opioids-stop-working/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WxnnFw1M5tA/hqdefault.jpg Opioid Bankruptcy: When the Account Runs Dry Both Ways Escalating opioid doses drive tolerance while chronic exposure and poor sleep suppress your own endorphin and hormonal signaling, plus what the Vietnam data shows about addiction. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WxnnFw1M5tA 645 2026-07-29T04:13:06-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/pain-addictive-eating-connection/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NtQ2J-ShcLc/hqdefault.jpg Pain & Addictive Eating: Uncovering Links | Padda Institute Of Pain Management | Dr Gurpreet Padda Chronic pain and overeating share one wiring: dopamine. Learn how food substitutes for reward and what it means for metabolic health. Padda St. Louis. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NtQ2J-ShcLc 597 2023-04-13T02:37:29-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/pain-is-a-signal-not-the-disease/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fMBX90CozkI/maxresdefault.jpg Pain Is the Signal, Not the Disease — and What That Changes About Treatment An interventional pain physician on why treating the signal without the terrain fails — and what the window of relief after a procedure is actually for. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fMBX90CozkI 324 2026-07-31T06:09:12-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/pathogen-burden-immune-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/33qtnlnT4Gw/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 18 — When Your Immune System Never Stands Down: Pathogen Burden and Chronic Pain Dormant infections can keep your immune system on guard, diverting the resources needed to heal and helping explain why some injuries never recover. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/33qtnlnT4Gw 223 2026-06-27T04:51:46-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/pfas-thyroid-tissue-repair-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AbCyP1g7Ywo/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 48 — PFAS and Your Thyroid: The Hidden Brake on Tissue Repair "Forever chemicals" (PFAS) can disrupt thyroid signaling and slow tissue repair—so injuries linger. Learn how the Padda Institute looks for the brakes. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/AbCyP1g7Ywo 273 2026-06-27T07:20:15-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/pgc1-alpha-cellular-energy-healing-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/brnNdGBDV38/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 35 — Why Some Bodies Can't Build the Energy Machinery They Need to Heal: PGC-1α Suppression If exercise has always failed you, a suppressed switch called PGC-1 alpha may be why. Learn how to turn it back on and rebuild your capacity to heal. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/brnNdGBDV38 304 2026-06-27T05:54:36-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/photobiomodulation-red-light-therapy-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i5WM6RuvCTk/hqdefault.jpg Photobiomodulation: Reduce Metabolic Inflammation and Boost Melatonin Levels | Padda Institute How near-infrared light fuels mitochondrial melatonin, your daytime anti-inflammatory. Learn what red light therapy may mean for pain at Padda St. Louis. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/i5WM6RuvCTk 2409 2026-04-04T11:01:02-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/pill-counts-vs-pharmacology-opioid-stewardship/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CLKe5M7bYuo/hqdefault.jpg Pill Counts vs. Pharmacology: When Politics Meets the Hyperadaptive System Why consolidating onto fewer long-acting tablets improves a prescribing metric while worsening the pharmacology, the observational mortality and overdose data, and the monitoring that actually reduces risk. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CLKe5M7bYuo 719 2026-07-29T04:13:31-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/post-herpetic-neuralgia-after-shingles-rash-heals/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MAH4tdBEWec/maxresdefault.jpg The Rash Healed and the Burning Did Not: Inside Post-Herpetic Neuralgia The rash healed but the burning did not. How shingles damages the nerve cell body, why a bedsheet hurts, and what a nerve root block can do. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/MAH4tdBEWec 631 2026-07-31T02:36:36-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/ptsd-neurobiology-amygdala-hippocampus-prefrontal/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PQnTQ9SGduo/maxresdefault.jpg The Neurobiology of a Stuck Alarm: Why "You're Safe Now" Doesn't Help An alarm that won't switch off, a map that lost its timestamps, brakes that can't engage. 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How a disc, the deep gluteal space, or a cluneal nerve each produce the same leg pain — and how they differ. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6kJG5JnOSEU 627 2026-07-31T02:35:02-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/social-determinants-of-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d75qBS0n1B0/hqdefault.jpg Social Determinants & Pain Management | Padda Institute Of Pain Management | Dr Gurpreet Padda Why your pain doctor asks about your neighborhood, work, and support. How social determinants shape chronic pain outcomes. Padda St. Louis. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/d75qBS0n1B0 445 2023-04-13T02:44:35-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/social-isolation-inflammation-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JGd744-_wAU/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 28 — Social Isolation Is an Inflammatory State — Here's What That Means for Pain Loneliness isn't only emotional—it's a measurable inflammatory state that lowers your pain threshold. 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