Discovering A Chronic Pain Reset with Dr. Afton Hasset

Is chronic pain just a function of our brains? If so, how do we
change our perception of pain? Today, we speak with licensed
clinical psychiatrist and pain researcher Dr. Afton Hasset.
Throughout her career, Afton has delved into the connections
between the brain, chronic pain, physical activity, and emotion.
She remains at the forefront of her field, and in our
conversation she shares several of her favorite takeaways from
her most recent book with us. Those of us intimately familiar
with chronic pain know just how severely it can impact quality of
life and happiness. With that in mind, join us to learn new,
game-changing pain management strategies and therapies.
 



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Key Moments“A little bit of pain is proper. What
happens, though, is pain can change from being something like a
stimulus response, meaning that you burn your finger and you
experience pain. It can turn into something that's not just pain
experienced by a burning finger and the brain, sometimes brain
actually creates the experience of pain.”





“What we see in chronic pain is that the default mode network is
talking way too much to another network called the salience
network, which is a network that says, hey, pay attention, this
is really something big, watch out. And so these two networks are
over connected. And so what we look for sometimes in
interventions is does the treatment actually start disentangling
these two networks?”





“So when we define pain, pain is a sensory, it's an emotional and
it's a cognitive, for it's a thought derived process. Pain exists
because there is this awareness of it. So when people are
anesthetized, you don't feel pain.”



About Dr. Afton Hasset:


Chronic Pain Reset: 30 Days of Activities, Practices, and
Skills to Help You Thrive


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