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/abdominal-pain-after-eating-blood-flow/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/rdFG9nFOf38.webp Your Gut Is Suffocating | The Angry Gut, Chapter 9 Abdominal pain after eating can be a blood flow problem the scope never sees. Learn the warning signs, why testing is hard, and what connects them. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rdFG9nFOf38 617 2026-09-12T22:11:42Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/abnormal-mri-findings-without-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/fZUL4Tm4AR0.webp Your MRI Is Lying to You | The Pained Brain, Chapter 3 An abnormal MRI is common in people with no pain. What scans show by age, what sham surgery trials found, and how metabolic health shapes the disc. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fZUL4Tm4AR0 582 2026-09-09T20:55:23Z 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/benzodiazepines-with-opioids-why-we-wean/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uVejaFHtqx4/maxresdefault.jpg Benzodiazepines and Pain Medication: The Real Risk Taken together, benzodiazepines and opioids suppress breathing more than either alone. Why we wean one, why it takes months, and why you must not stop abruptly. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uVejaFHtqx4 442 2026-08-12T12:34:22-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/biologics-crohns-disease-bridge-not-cure/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/qacstQfKCyU.webp Your Immune System Is Not Confused | The Angry Gut, Chapter 16 Biologics for Crohn's disease hold an inflamed bowel still. Learn how often they stop working, what they cost the body, and what to do with the time. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qacstQfKCyU 591 2026-09-12T22:11:42Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/bloating-at-night-housekeeper-wave/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/yOTPAEo_i0k.webp Six Meals a Day Is a Business Model | The Angry Gut, Chapter 19 Bloating at night is often a bowel that never gets its turn to sweep. Why bedtime hunger is not low blood sugar, and what meal spacing can change. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/yOTPAEo_i0k 605 2026-09-12T22:11:44Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/bloating-constipation-breath-methane-test/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/f93BkEgARBI.webp Your Gut Bacteria Breathe Out Through Your Mouth | The Angry Gut, Chapter 25 Bloating and constipation that never resolve may be a methane problem. What a breath test measures, how often it is wrong, and why stool kits miss it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/f93BkEgARBI 607 2026-09-12T22:11:42Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/bloating-fatigue-gut-antimicrobial-cost/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/FeLxwWwBgSE.webp The Wrong Enemy on Your Stool Report | The Angry Gut, Chapter 18 Bloating and fatigue get blamed on organisms most healthy people carry. What one antimicrobial course really costs, and what to measure instead of names. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FeLxwWwBgSE 620 2026-09-12T22:11:37Z 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/can-stress-cause-ibs-bowel-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/zh0qKWz_iDQ.webp Two Doctors, One Bowel, Nobody in Charge | The Angry Gut, Chapter 13 Can stress cause IBS? Pressure catheters, two town-wide outbreaks and pain-scored trials show how fear changes the bowel and which therapies ease the pain. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/zh0qKWz_iDQ 610 2026-09-12T22:11:44Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/carrageenan-side-effects-gut-wall/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/nI2-HyC_BMA.webp Your Microbes Read the Label, Not the Macros | The Angry Gut, Chapter 15 Carrageenan side effects are narrower and stranger than the internet claims. What one randomized trial, the big cohorts and the label mixture really show. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nI2-HyC_BMA 640 2026-09-12T22:11:42Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/celiac-plexus-block-upper-abdominal-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SqEZnM3t2dY/maxresdefault.jpg Celiac plexus block. 🎯 Stopping Upper Abdominal Pain Where It Travels Upper abdominal pain travels through one nerve plexus, so it can be interrupted there. What a block achieves, block versus neurolysis, and why timing matters. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SqEZnM3t2dY 311 2026-08-15T09:40:30Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/central-sensitization-inventory-score-testing/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/jdi6ekxyo4E.webp The Volume Knob Is Not in the Knee | The Pained Brain, Chapter 9 What a central sensitization inventory score means, why an algometer measures the amplifier better, and what sensitization predicts before surgery. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jdi6ekxyo4E 555 2026-09-09T20:55:23Z 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/chemical-restraint-dementia-agitation-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/gS1B2xS1-5A.webp Does She Hurt? Pain in the Elderly | The Pained Brain, Chapter 16 A chemical restraint often answers agitation in dementia that is really untreated pain. See the evidence, the drug risks, and what families can ask for. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gS1B2xS1-5A 593 2026-09-09T20:55:23Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/chronic-pain-after-surgery/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cylrGkdBgUc/maxresdefault.jpg Chronic post-surgical pain. 🎯 When Pain Outlasts the Operation Pain persisting months after surgery is a recognized condition, not poor recovery. What predicts it, what the sleep evidence really shows, and what to do next. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/cylrGkdBgUc 345 2026-08-15T11:01:44Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/chronic-pain-depression-not-in-your-head/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/LD4uRI866FI.webp You Cannot Separate the Mind from the Metabolism | The Pained Brain, Chapter 21 Chronic pain and depression share inflammation, insulin resistance, sleep and loneliness. What each layer predicts, and why stacked treatments work best. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LD4uRI866FI 588 2026-09-09T20:55:19Z 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/constipation-and-dementia-first-brain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/rBk44gXk_kM.webp A Waistline Predicted a Leaking Brain | The Angry Gut, Chapter 12 Constipation and dementia share a long timeline. See what the large cohorts show, why a stool test from a slow bowel misleads, and what to ask first. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rBk44gXk_kM 616 2026-09-12T22:11:42Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/cortisone-shot-side-effects-knee-prp/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/mqT4veKyIKw.webp The Goal Was Never to Manage Your Pain Forever | The Pained Brain, Chapter 15 Cortisone shot side effects on cartilage, blood sugar and bone, how platelet-rich plasma compares over time, and why metabolic terrain shapes results. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mqT4veKyIKw 551 2026-09-09T20:55:23Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/crps-cost-of-delayed-treatment/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qmx45HoETRM/maxresdefault.jpg CRPS and the Cost of Doing Nothing: Joseph's Story CRPS that is denied early treatment does not stay still. A roofer's story, and what the delay actually costs — physically, cognitively and financially. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qmx45HoETRM 267 2026-08-12T11:56:01-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/deprescribing-older-adults-falls-risk/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_F70P-G-9TI/maxresdefault.jpg Deprescribing. 🎯 One Medication List. One Person. One Fall. A long medication list in an older adult is one problem, not several. STOPP/START version 3, the statin trade-off, and why nobody stops a drug on their own. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/_F70P-G-9TI 400 2026-08-15T11:11:50Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/diabetes-joint-pain-frozen-shoulder-trigger-finger/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/0abdKiuvP94.webp Sugar Is Turning Your Tissues to Glass | The Pained Brain, Chapter 6 Diabetes and joint pain share one cause: sugar bonding to collagen. Why frozen shoulder, trigger finger and carpal tunnel cluster, and what helps. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0abdKiuvP94 578 2026-09-09T20:55:20Z 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/diarrhea-after-cholecystectomy-missed-test/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/PnPCkHtd3bA.webp Bile Is a Hormone, Not Soap | The Angry Gut, Chapter 23 Diarrhea after cholecystectomy has a mechanism, a test and a treatment. Of 9,439 patients who had the operation, only 2.1% were ever investigated for it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PnPCkHtd3bA 598 2026-09-12T22:11:39Z 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/doctor-reviews-five-star-rating-quality/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/GDuU4gwQBQw.webp Kindness Is the Baseline, Not the Achievement | The Pained Brain, Chapter 19 Doctor reviews track kindness and granted requests, not clinical quality. What the studies show, and what to check instead when choosing a pain physician. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/GDuU4gwQBQw 569 2026-09-09T20:55:19Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/does-chronic-pain-shorten-your-life/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/CDVqPkVKZy8.webp The Cost of Pain Is Paid in Years | The Pained Brain, Chapter 1 Does chronic pain shorten your life? What large cohorts found, why limiting pain, insulin and visceral fat carry the risk, and what to measure first. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CDVqPkVKZy8 589 2026-09-09T20:55:19Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/does-nicotine-make-you-poop/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/lzCyR3g7DYc.webp The Nicotine Paradox: It Was Never the Molecule, It's Where You Put It | The Angry Gut, Chapter 32 Does nicotine make you poop? Human studies show one real evacuation wave, no restart of a stalled gut, and real harms. Why rescue is not repair. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/lzCyR3g7DYc 604 2026-09-12T22:11:42Z 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/ehlers-danlos-chronic-pain-gut/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/IVnZiCMD9Ls.webp Collagen Is the Wall, Not the Paint | The Angry Gut, Chapter 7 Ehlers-Danlos chronic pain rarely comes alone. Learn why collagen matters to the gut wall, what the GI and pain data show, and how repair actually starts. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IVnZiCMD9Ls 615 2026-09-12T22:11:39Z 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/enteric-nervous-system-first-brain-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/DiIoAgH7dQc.webp You Have the Stomach of a Hyena | The Angry Gut, Chapter 0 The enteric nervous system holds 168 million neurons and reports upward through the vagus. Learn what that wiring means for chronic pain and treatment. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DiIoAgH7dQc 661 2026-09-12T20:48:39Z 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/er-or-urgent-care-for-back-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/pHMIbNS1nuU.webp The ER Will Tell You You're Not Dying. That Is Not a Diagnosis | The Pained Brain, Chapter 10 ER or urgent care for back pain? The red flags that belong in the emergency room, what the visit gives everyone else, and what a same-day evaluation asks. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/pHMIbNS1nuU 542 2026-09-09T20:55:26Z 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/fasting-insulin-test-nerve-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/_MF0ivDeKg0.webp The Hormone Nobody Measured Is Starving Your Nerves | The Pained Brain, Chapter 4 Why a fasting insulin test can flag trouble years before glucose does, how high insulin starves and sensitizes nerves, and why most labs never order it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/_MF0ivDeKg0 582 2026-09-09T20:55:23Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/fatty-liver-symptoms-normal-labs-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/D5k6qBGpRR0.webp The Alcohol You Never Drank | The Angry Gut, Chapter 5 Fatty liver symptoms can hide behind normal labs. Learn how gut endotoxin and gut-made alcohol reach the liver, and why it matters when you live with pain. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/D5k6qBGpRR0 578 2026-09-12T22:11:37Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/fee-for-service-healthcare-chronic-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/b9yLhkEeIlU.webp The System Profits From Your Pain | The Pained Brain, Chapter 12 How fee-for-service healthcare shapes chronic pain care: repeat injections, the pay formula, drug cascades, and questions that make a procedure a bridge. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/b9yLhkEeIlU 562 2026-09-09T20:55:23Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/fibromyalgia-widespread-pain-evaluation/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q2Dig-RTQPQ/maxresdefault.jpg Why Fibromyalgia Tests Keep Coming Back Normal Fibromyalgia involves altered pain signaling, not joint damage, so normal scans are expected. The symptom pattern, who develops it, and how it is managed. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/q2Dig-RTQPQ 374 2026-08-15T09:31:09Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/fish-oil-inflammation-gut-trials-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/b8RCK9fI5ZQ.webp Your Gut Wall Is What You Fried Last Week | The Angry Gut, Chapter 8 Fish oil for inflammation, tested: what the gut trials showed, what high doses cost your heart rhythm, and why the fryer outweighs any capsule. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/b8RCK9fI5ZQ 574 2026-09-12T22:11:39Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/food-environment-metabolic-reversal-interview/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WrEk2qKWDFs/maxresdefault.jpg Processed Food, Pain and Addiction — Podcast Part 2 Dr. Padda on a podcast: growing up in St. Louis public housing, what the food environment does, and what metabolic reversal does and does not achieve. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WrEk2qKWDFs 1236 2026-08-12T14:59:06-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/genicular-nerve-ablation-knee-osteoarthritis/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4oFjo8HIPt4/maxresdefault.jpg Genicular nerve ablation. 🎯 Knee Pain Treated Without Touching the Joint Randomized trials show genicular nerve ablation outperforms steroid injection, gel injection and oral analgesics for knee osteoarthritis pain. What it can do. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4oFjo8HIPt4 316 2026-08-15T09:21:30Z 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/glyphosate-side-effects-first-brain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/H5zI-YtMxWc.webp The Antibiotic on Your Salad | The Angry Gut, Chapter 22 Glyphosate side effects are argued on the human cell. Half your gut species carry the target enzyme, and that is where a patient in pain should look. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/H5zI-YtMxWc 586 2026-09-12T22:11:37Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/gut-health-anxiety-inflammation-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/WVnayG6guCs.webp Your Anxiety Is a Fire in Your Gut | The Angry Gut, Chapter 1 Gut health and anxiety are linked through inflammation and a gut lining cell that can sensitize visceral pain. See who is affected and what moved symptoms. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WVnayG6guCs 574 2026-09-12T22:11:39Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/gut-health-inflammation-chronic-pain-maintenance/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/N4qLUSgFIjI.webp There Is No Discharge Date | The Angry Gut, Chapter 30 Gut health and inflammation move together. Learn why fiber, fermented food and daily habits keep chronic pain quieter, and why gains fade when they stop. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/N4qLUSgFIjI 586 2026-09-12T22:11:39Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/hand-numbness-carpal-tunnel-or-neck/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uPvwjkGoEgE/maxresdefault.jpg Hand numbness. 🎯 Wrist Problem or Neck Problem? The median nerve does not supply the little finger. Which fingers go numb, why symptoms start at night, and how nerve testing separates wrist from neck. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uPvwjkGoEgE 316 2026-08-15T09:37:03Z 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/heel-pain-not-plantar-fasciitis/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L2HQlTwBvKg/maxresdefault.jpg Tarsal tunnel syndrome 🎯 Heel Pain That Is Not Plantar Fasciitis Numbness or tingling with heel pain points to a compressed nerve, not the fascia. Why tarsal tunnel syndrome is missed and why waiting it out carries a cost. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/L2HQlTwBvKg 331 2026-08-15T09:43:58Z 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/histamine-pain-gut-mast-cells-nerves/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/kvSA9XClnUQ.webp She's Not Allergic to Her Food. She's Fermenting It. | The Angry Gut, Chapter 31 Histamine and pain are linked by mast cells beside gut nerves. See the tissue evidence, why antihistamines fall short, and what quiets those cells. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/kvSA9XClnUQ 621 2026-09-12T22:11:42Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/how-to-stop-cluster-headache-attack/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/fRC8wRmjz50.webp The Most Painful Headache Requires Minutes, Not Weeks | The Pained Brain, Chapter 11 How to stop a cluster headache attack: oxygen, injected sumatriptan and the nasal SPG block, why opioids fail, and how steroids and verapamil end the bout. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fRC8wRmjz50 530 2026-09-09T20:55:23Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/how-to-stop-taking-omeprazole-rebound/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/3lbUioof63I.webp The Heartburn Pill You Can't Quit | The Angry Gut, Chapter 20 How to stop taking omeprazole with your physician: why heartburn rebounds, how long it lasts, what replaces the pill, and which harms of long use are real. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3lbUioof63I 596 2026-09-12T22:11:37Z 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/leaky-gut-symptoms-chronic-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/rFGLOxSP64I.webp The Leaky Gut Test You Paid For Cannot See the Wall | The Angry Gut, Chapter 4 Leaky gut symptoms prove little on their own. Learn how painkillers, stress and alcohol open the gut wall, and what endotoxin does to a body in pain. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rFGLOxSP64I 593 2026-09-12T22:11:42Z 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/PmMvOzSP9rU/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/PmMvOzSP9rU 454 2023-04-13T02:39:58-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/loneliness-chronic-pain-driver/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ormLpPqw91E/maxresdefault.jpg Mindset and Chronic Pain: Getting Unstuck From the Past Pain that will not settle usually has more than one driver. Isolation is one of the most consistent — and it is the one nobody screens for. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ormLpPqw91E 318 2026-08-12T14:52:48-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/long-term-nsaid-use-side-effects/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/MXC_aTJv7cc.webp Two-Thirds of Your Pill Is Not the Drug | The Angry Gut, Chapter 2 Long-term NSAID use side effects reach past the stomach: silent small-bowel ulcers, why acid blockers do not protect there, and what to ask your doctor. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/MXC_aTJv7cc 598 2026-09-12T22:11:39Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/long-term-omeprazole-side-effects-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/6LhiRQ48y_A.webp Full of Calories, Starving One Cell Deep | The Angry Gut, Chapter 14 Long term omeprazole side effects reach past the stomach: gut bacteria shift, and paired with an anti-inflammatory the small bowel takes the injury. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6LhiRQ48y_A 603 2026-09-12T22:11:37Z 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 randomized 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/melatonin-for-ibs-gut-pain-not-sleep/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/7oKeubQ8hn4.webp Your Gut Has Jet Lag | The Angry Gut, Chapter 17 Melatonin for IBS eased abdominal pain in trials without improving sleep. See who it helped, who it did not, and why a work roster belongs on the chart. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7oKeubQ8hn4 595 2026-09-12T22:11:37Z 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/metabolic-inflammation-treatment-target/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yvotIuolD4g/maxresdefault.jpg How Metabolic Health Shapes Pain, Energy and Aging Normal-range HbA1c is not the same as metabolic health. Why this practice targets insulin resistance directly, and what that has to do with pain. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/yvotIuolD4g 562 2026-08-12T12:13:41-07:00 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/mid-back-pain-between-shoulder-blades/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5-ALaSEWoi8/maxresdefault.jpg Mid Thoracic Back Pain 🎯 Pain Between the Shoulder Blades Thoracic pain is hard to localize and often treated as muscular. Why the costotransverse joints get missed, and how a diagnostic block confirms the target. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5-ALaSEWoi8 382 2026-08-15T11:09:58Z 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/mold-exposure-symptoms-evidence-tiers/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/CceI3VSEW9Q.webp Mold Illness: Fix the Basement, Skip the Panel | The Angry Gut, Chapter 26 Mold exposure symptoms, graded honestly: what mycotoxins are proven to do, why the urine panel cannot come back positive, and what to fix first. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CceI3VSEW9Q 617 2026-09-12T22:11:37Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/morphine-milligram-equivalents-dose-not-diagnosis/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/LbkKVK5LSEQ.webp A Dose Is Not a Diagnosis | The Pained Brain, Chapter 17 What morphine milligram equivalents measure, why the 90 line is a slope, not a step, what tapering studies found, and why the pain generator matters more. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LbkKVK5LSEQ 574 2026-09-09T20:55:19Z 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/myofascial-pain-trigger-points-evidence/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wgTq7eYHOis/maxresdefault.jpg Myofascial pain. 🎯 Trigger Points: What the Evidence Actually Supports Local anesthetic injection has sufficient evidence in myofascial pain. NSAIDs, botulinum toxin and TENS do not. The full hierarchy, and why referral misleads. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wgTq7eYHOis 336 2026-08-15T09:33:00Z 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/nociceptive-vs-neuropathic-pain-drug-match/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/A-EIHJ9LpsQ.webp Nerve or Joint? Pain Speaks Two Languages | The Pained Brain, Chapter 20 The nociceptive pain definition beside neuropathic pain: how a quick exam tells them apart, why the wrong drug keeps winning, and what fits each type. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/A-EIHJ9LpsQ 581 2026-09-09T20:55:19Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/nociplastic-pain-structure-mechanism-terrain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/IVljDd91cFg.webp Pain Is Not a Diagnosis | The Pained Brain, Chapter 2 What nociplastic pain is, how it differs from nerve and tissue pain, and the three questions to ask before treating it: structure, mechanism and terrain. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IVljDd91cFg 566 2026-09-09T20:55:20Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/occipital-neuralgia-headache-from-base-of-skull/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DzuqzbxukIU/maxresdefault.jpg Occipital neuralgia. 🎯 The Headache That Starts at the Base of Your Skull Pain starting at the base of the skull and radiating forward points to the neck, not a migraine. How occipital neuralgia differs from cervicogenic headache. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DzuqzbxukIU 349 2026-08-15T09:28:06Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/omega-3-joint-pain-seed-oil-ratio/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/ZTO1Y1k485c.webp Your Diet Is Manufacturing Your Pain | The Pained Brain, Chapter 5 Omega-3 for joint pain works best when omega-6 seed oils come out too. The trials, the omega-3 index target, and what daily NSAIDs really cost. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ZTO1Y1k485c 600 2026-09-09T20:55:23Z 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/opioid-induced-constipation-not-side-effect/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/H7Y-D1spvRo.webp The Pain Pill That Paralyzes Your Gut | The Angry Gut, Chapter 21 Opioid-induced constipation is not a nuisance to tolerate. Why the bowel never adapts, why patients stay silent, and what treats the receptor behind it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/H7Y-D1spvRo 622 2026-09-12T22:11:37Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/orthopedic-surgeon-neurosurgeon-or-pain-physician/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jSbIb1Jv6KQ/maxresdefault.jpg Choosing a specialist. 🎯 Surgeon or Pain Physician: Who Should You See First? Three specialties get recommended for the same pain, and they answer different questions. Which order makes sense, and when surgery is the right first call. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jSbIb1Jv6KQ 353 2026-08-15T11:05:26Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/pain-addictive-eating-connection/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8Qc_yKE4x7I/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/8Qc_yKE4x7I 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/phantom-limb-pain-after-amputation/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fR6JTUSnIsU/maxresdefault.jpg 🎯 Phantom Limb Pain Is Real. Here Is the Evidence. Phantom limb pain affects 40 to 80 percent of amputees and arises at three levels at once. What mirror therapy and virtual reality trials actually showed. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fR6JTUSnIsU 325 2026-08-15T09:42:20Z 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/postcholecystectomy-syndrome-bile-acid-diarrhea/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/K7hSYYHXuEU.webp The Liver Flush Is Soap | The Angry Gut, Chapter 28 Postcholecystectomy syndrome is often bile acid diarrhea, not bacterial overgrowth. What the surgery data show and why mistimed bile keeps a gut in pain. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/K7hSYYHXuEU 613 2026-09-12T22:11:40Z 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. What PTSD does to the brain — including two claims usually overstated. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PQnTQ9SGduo 420 2026-07-31T06:15:15-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/pudendal-neuralgia-pelvic-pain-when-sitting/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EiEv8BAbnVg/maxresdefault.jpg Pudendal neuralgia. 🎯 Pelvic Pain That Is Worse When You Sit The Nantes criteria define pudendal neuralgia clinically. Why not waking at night and a normal exam both support the diagnosis rather than ruling it out. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EiEv8BAbnVg 354 2026-08-15T09:38:51Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/radiofrequency-ablation-back-neck-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RD4znYKqK2s/hqdefault.jpg The Truth About RF for Back and Neck Pain (No Surgery Center Required) 🏢❌ How radiofrequency ablation quiets facet-joint back and neck pain in the office, why staying awake is safer, and what makes relief last. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RD4znYKqK2s 235 2026-03-28T14:53:36-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/ros-oxidative-stress-inflammation-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jGMb452QyJw/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 32 — The ROS Inflammation Feedback Loop Chronic pain with no new injury? Learn how leaking mitochondrial ROS drives an inflammation loop that keeps your nervous system primed and how to break it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jGMb452QyJw 270 2026-06-27T05:46:31-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/rotator-cuff-shoulder-pain-exercise-evidence/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8RsdfT3OxqA/maxresdefault.jpg Rotator cuff pain. 🎯 Why Your Shoulder Function Improved. Your Pain Did Not. Pooled trials found exercise improved shoulder disability but not short-term pain, and no trial has compared session frequency at all. What that means for you. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8RsdfT3OxqA 315 2026-08-15T09:34:58Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/sacroiliac-joint-pain-diagnosis-injection/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ritS_Lqz8KY/maxresdefault.jpg The sacroiliac joint: 🎯 The Low Back Pain That Is Not Coming From Your Spine Up to 25% of low back pain may come from the sacroiliac joint. How provocative testing and an image-guided diagnostic injection confirm it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ritS_Lqz8KY 311 2026-08-15T09:15:52Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/same-day-emergency-visits/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dBAxa7EGRkA/maxresdefault.jpg Don't Spend 5 Hours in the ER for Pain | Same-Day Visits in St. Louis Why the hospital emergency department is a structural mismatch for pain that is not immediately life-threatening, what CMS Hospital Compare reports about Missouri and St. Louis emergency department throughput, when you should go to the emergency room, and what a same-day interventional pain visit involves. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dBAxa7EGRkA 211 2026-07-31T08:00:20-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/sauna-heat-therapy-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WOhtd7ZcmXM/maxresdefault.jpg Sauna and Heat Therapy: What It Does and Doesn't Do Heat therapy is not a comfort measure. What the evidence actually supports, what is still investigational, and what is frankly speculative. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WOhtd7ZcmXM 429 2026-08-12T12:43:36-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/sciatica-causes-disc-piriformis-cluneal-nerve/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6kJG5JnOSEU/maxresdefault.jpg Sciatica Is Not a Diagnosis: The Three Structures That Actually Generate Leg Pain Sciatica names a route, not a source. 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/sibo-relapse-after-rifaximin/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/zqDhHmx46co.webp The Weeds Were Never the Problem | The Angry Gut, Chapter 27 SIBO relapse arrives on schedule after a clean kill. What the recurrence data show, what predicted her return, and what belongs in the week after the last dose. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/zqDhHmx46co 621 2026-09-12T22:11:44Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/sleep-disruption-and-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fVCTc5N0zZw/maxresdefault.jpg Sleep and chronic pain. 🎯 Pain Wrecks Sleep. Sleep Wrecks Pain. Pain is both a cause and a consequence of sleep deficiency. The mechanisms proposed, why medication sits on both sides, and what it means before surgery. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fVCTc5N0zZw 356 2026-08-15T11:07:27Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/social-determinants-of-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XoaLwx7s3WA/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/XoaLwx7s3WA 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. Here's the biology and how to break the loop. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JGd744-_wAU 260 2026-06-27T05:35:36-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/spg-stellate-blocks-cluster-headache-migraine/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XCQQM_vDgN4/hqdefault.jpg Pain is a signal, not a Sentence. SPG and Stellate Blocks Can Silence the Chronic Headache Loop How sphenopalatine and stellate ganglion blocks interrupt cluster headache and migraine at the nerve level — and why blocks are only the start. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XCQQM_vDgN4 307 2026-03-30T08:00:39-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/spinal-cord-stimulator-trial-what-it-tells-you/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vNTvvDNB2lo/maxresdefault.jpg 🎯 What a Spinal Cord Stimulator Trial Actually Proves A stimulator trial is a test, not a small version of treatment. What counts as success, how durable benefit is, and what predicts a device being removed. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vNTvvDNB2lo 373 2026-08-15T09:17:47Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/spinal-stenosis-leg-pain-when-walking/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iVfONGAaqGk/maxresdefault.jpg Lumbar spinal stenosis. 🎯 Why Leaning Forward Stops the Leg Pain Leg pain after a few minutes of walking that settles when you lean forward points to lumbar spinal stenosis. What the pattern means and how it is confirmed. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/iVfONGAaqGk 304 2026-08-15T09:23:33Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/spondylolisthesis-surgery-fusion-worth-it/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/PDZ9cUlfXKg.webp The Four-Dollar Bottle Costs the Years | The Pained Brain, Chapter 18 Spondylolisthesis surgery weighed in years of health: what fusion adds to decompression, what trials found, and why the bridge and blood tests come first. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PDZ9cUlfXKg 577 2026-09-09T20:55:19Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/stellate-ganglion-block-how-to-know-it-worked/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uS08xCHCA1Q/maxresdefault.jpg A Needle in the Neck Is Not a Test: How a Stellate Ganglion Block Is Proven to Have Worked Had blocks with no answer? How a stellate ganglion block is verified with Horner syndrome and hand temperature, and what the evidence really shows. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uS08xCHCA1Q 643 2026-07-31T02:44:31-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/stress-body-aches-cortisol-pain-threshold/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/8iAgwDemQLU.webp Chronic Stress Is Not in Your Head. It's in Your Pain Threshold | The Pained Brain, Chapter 8 Can stress cause body aches? Chronic stress changes cortisol signaling, inflammation and the brain, lowering your pain threshold. Here is what helps. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8iAgwDemQLU 551 2026-09-09T20:55:19Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/sugar-refined-grain-seed-oil-metabolic-harm/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WERyJWwQyb4/maxresdefault.jpg Sugar, Refined Grain and Seed Oil: The Mechanism Behind Each One There is no biochemical reaction that requires dietary fructose. The evidence on sugar, refined carbohydrate and omega-6 seed oils — including where it is weaker than claimed. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WERyJWwQyb4 374 2026-07-31T06:04:31-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/tarsal-tunnel-syndrome-burning-sole-of-foot/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8shcxK89xA0/maxresdefault.jpg Burning in the Sole of Your Foot: When the Problem Is a Nerve, Not the Fascia Burning across the sole that worsens with standing and wakes you at night can be tarsal tunnel syndrome, not plantar fasciitis. How the two differ. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8shcxK89xA0 625 2026-07-31T02:22:08-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/tenjet-procedure-chronic-tendon-pain/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/zOHlF45vbOI.webp Wash Out the Lesion, Don't Jam the Signal | The Pained Brain, Chapter 14 What the TenJet procedure removes from a chronic tendon, how its evidence compares with nerve stimulators and surgery, and why loading decides the result. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/zOHlF45vbOI 566 2026-09-09T20:55:26Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/too-much-vitamin-d-falls-fractures/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/d4ehfGDo3hU.webp Vitamin D Is a Hormone, Not a Vitamin | The Angry Gut, Chapter 10 Too much vitamin D raised falls, fractures and bone loss in large trials. Learn why a governed hormone pushes back, and what that means for a body in pain. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/d4ehfGDo3hU 637 2026-09-12T22:11:39Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/toxins-energy-production-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/f1padaEudgU/hqdefault.jpg EPISODE 40 — How Toxins Directly Jam Your Energy Production — and Spike Your Pain Doing everything right and still in pain? Some heavy metals and pesticides directly jam the electron transport chain, cutting energy and spiking pain. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/f1padaEudgU 311 2026-06-27T06:17:15-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/trauma-memory-reconsolidation-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2Vm_TSXqGpU/maxresdefault.jpg Trauma, Time and Pain: A Different Way to Look Back Memory is reconstructive, not a recording. What that means for people carrying both old trauma and present pain — and what it does not mean. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/2Vm_TSXqGpU 364 2026-08-12T14:48:52-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/trigeminal-neuralgia-facial-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8-T8ZYHURJU/maxresdefault.jpg Trigeminal neuralgia. 🎯 Facial Pain That Lasts Seconds and Stops You Eating Sudden shock-like facial pain lasting seconds, set off by shaving or a breeze. What triggers it, why painkillers rarely help, and when the cause is secondary. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8-T8ZYHURJU 348 2026-08-15T09:25:45Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/type-2-diabetes-remission-chronic-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OxrE-gCmLt8/maxresdefault.jpg Type 2 Diabetes Remission and What It Does to Chronic Pain What the remission trials actually achieved, why pain often improves before weight does, and how to read the very high success rates quoted in this field. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/OxrE-gCmLt8 3464 2025-08-12T00:00:26-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/ulcerative-colitis-back-pain-spine/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/nnm7YNH1j3U.webp Your Gut Is Reaching Your Spine | The Angry Gut, Chapter 11 Ulcerative colitis back pain is common and routinely missed. Learn how bowel inflammation reaches the spine, the four questions that find it, and what helps. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nnm7YNH1j3U 622 2026-09-12T22:11:42Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/ultrasound-guided-injection-accuracy-blind-needle/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/UmpWMPAVIbc.webp Injecting Blindly Is Accepting Failure | The Pained Brain, Chapter 13 Ultrasound guided injection accuracy against landmark shots at the knee, shoulder, hip and spine, and why a missed needle gets called a failed treatment. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/UmpWMPAVIbc 575 2026-09-09T20:55:23Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/untreated-chronic-pain-brain-cognition/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fjZn7kiG2CE/maxresdefault.jpg What Untreated Chronic Pain Does to the Brain Leaving chronic pain untreated is an exposure, not a safe default. What persistent pain does to cortisol, microglia and cognition — and what to do about it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fjZn7kiG2CE 214 2026-08-12T12:00:24-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/vagus-nerve-and-pain-gut-signals/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/JytW6dc1Kw8.webp Two Doctors, One Nerve | The Angry Gut, Chapter 3 How the vagus nerve and pain are linked: what the wire reports from the gut, why the ear clip lost to sham, and where needle stimulation helped. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JytW6dc1Kw8 590 2026-09-12T22:11:39Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/valor-villages-horticulture-retraining-veterans-ptsd/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hRrX588XdWs/maxresdefault.jpg Helping Veterans With PTSD Heal: Valor Villages and Padda Institute Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP on the terrain model shared by soil and the human body — why a prairie restoration on Woodson Road is part of how Valor Villages retrains veterans living with PTSD. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hRrX588XdWs 808 2026-08-07T14:17:30-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/vertebral-compression-fracture-sudden-back-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vetMBR0kLCg/maxresdefault.jpg Vertebral Compression Fracture: Why a Cough Can Break a Spine — and What Cement Actually Does Sudden midback pain after a cough or a lift can be a vertebral compression fracture. How the bone fails, what cement does, and what the trials show. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vetMBR0kLCg 614 2026-07-31T02:47:41-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/visceral-fat-inflammation-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BNqLOG1HIVo/hqdefault.jpg Episode 5 Belly Fat Isn't Passive, How Visceral Fat Pumps Out Pain Signals How visceral fat acts like a gland, pumping TNF-alpha and IL-6 into your blood to drive body-wide pain, and how to reverse it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/BNqLOG1HIVo 362 2026-06-21T14:08:46-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/visceral-fat-metabolic-inflammation/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YOjbZGi7npQ/maxresdefault.jpg Visceral Fat: The Metabolic Problem You Can't See Visceral fat is not storage — it is endocrine and immune tissue that secretes inflammatory signals continuously. What that means for pain, and what to do. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/YOjbZGi7npQ 777 2026-08-12T12:29:10-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/vitamin-b12-neuropathy-normal-level/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/aOWv8xsU5t4.webp The Normal B12 That Wasn't | The Angry Gut, Chapter 6 Vitamin B12 neuropathy can hide behind a normal blood level. Learn how the stomach, metformin and acid blockers starve nerves, and what to test instead. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/aOWv8xsU5t4 636 2026-09-12T22:11:39Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/what-emg-and-nerve-conduction-studies-measure/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9xaTjcjdlZk/maxresdefault.jpg ”Neuropathy” Is a Category, Not a Diagnosis: What Nerve Testing Actually Measures Nerve conduction studies and needle EMG measure timing and size. What each test finds, what it misses, and when nerve testing is actually worth doing. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9xaTjcjdlZk 639 2026-07-31T02:09:50-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/what-the-er-can-and-cannot-do-for-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dBAxa7EGRkA/maxresdefault.jpg Don't Spend 5 Hours in the ER for Pain | Same-Day Visits in St. Louis What an emergency department is built to do, what CMS Hospital Compare reports about emergency department throughput, what the research shows about pain assessment in that setting, and how to decide which door you need. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dBAxa7EGRkA 211 2026-07-31T08:00:20-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/what-to-expect-first-pain-appointment/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S6Vu477cG10/maxresdefault.jpg Your first visit.🎯 What Actually Happens at a Pain Appointment A first interventional visit is a diagnostic appointment, not a prescription. What to bring, what the examination looks for, and the questions worth asking. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/S6Vu477cG10 297 2026-08-15T11:03:36Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/what-waiting-for-pain-treatment-does-to-your-body/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_eF5TMsqbRA/maxresdefault.jpg Why We Don't Make You Wait 6 Weeks for Pain Treatment | Padda Institute St. Louis What the published research shows happens in the body during a multi-week wait for pain treatment: loss of deep sleep and the resulting drop in pain threshold, glucocorticoid-driven muscle breakdown, gray matter differences that scale with pain duration, and how the duration of a first opioid episode predicts long-term use. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/_eF5TMsqbRA 437 2026-08-01T04:14:51-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/where-knee-arthritis-pain-comes-from/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HWpYELCW9Lg/maxresdefault.jpg Where Knee Arthritis Pain Actually Comes From (It Is Not the Cartilage) Cartilage has no nerves. Where knee osteoarthritis pain is really made, what the genicular nerves carry, and what the trials honestly show. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HWpYELCW9Lg 645 2026-07-31T02:51:18-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/why-calorie-restriction-fails-weight-loss/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vOVu3n3eauo/maxresdefault.jpg Why "Eat Less, Move More" Fails — and What the Numbers Actually Say The annual chance of reaching normal weight in routine care is 1 in 210 for men and 1 in 124 for women. Why obesity behaves like a hormone problem, not an arithmetic one. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vOVu3n3eauo 406 2026-07-31T06:06:49-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/why-do-i-crave-sugar-nervous-system/ https://painmd.tv/wp-content/uploads/video-thumbs/DW-xmCWWp00.webp Your Sugar Craving Has a Schedule | The Angry Gut, Chapter 24 Why do I crave sugar at four and again after nine? How the gut reports to the brainstem, why blocking the nerve failed, and what turns the craving down. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DW-xmCWWp00 579 2026-09-12T22:11:37Z yes no no https://painmd.tv/why-leg-pain-persists-after-back-surgery/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-hCe88ycelA/maxresdefault.jpg Why Your Leg Still Burns After a Back Surgery That Worked Your MRI is clean and your leg still burns. Why nerve pain outlives spine surgery, and what spinal cord stimulation can and cannot do. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-hCe88ycelA 644 2026-07-31T02:42:33-07:00 yes no no https://painmd.tv/why-medications-surgery-may-not-fix-pain/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wcFjFQjAPmk/hqdefault.jpg Dr. Gurpreet Padda: Why meds, procedures, & surgery may not be the biggest key to fixing your PAIN. 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