Dr. Rachel Zoffness

"It’s a rare book that both expands an issue into a dizzyingly complex problem and offers to solve it. In Tell Me Where It Hurts, pain psychologist and scientist Rachel Zoffness pulls off both."

Thank you @sciencenews.bsky.social for this incredible book review 🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Recording the audiobook for Tell Me Where It Hurts 🎙️♥️

How is already 6 weeks away?!?? So not ready 😅

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Join me at ASU for a conversation about the MYTHS of pain medicine - the lies & BS we've been sold, and the true science of healing 🔥🔥🔥

Academics 🧪, science nerds 🧠, and anyone who likes to read 📚welcome!!!! 🤓

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Mapping somatosensory afferent circuitry to bone identifies neurotrophic signals required for fracture healing The pain associated with bone fracture is mediated by somatosensory neurons, which also appear to be required to initiate bone regeneration. To characterize neuroanatomical circuitry mediating skeleta...

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Sensory neurons promote bone fracture healing
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I recommend completely avoiding this rabbit hole. They use confusing language that doesn't make sense because it doesn't make sense.

And whether or not congenital limb aplasia triggers as much pain as phantom pain after limb loss is in no way evidence that pain requires nociception. Also, pain is an EXPERIENCE. Not just a sensation, not just a perception. Both & more. 👋🏼😁

Their arguments are completely inane. The IASP definition plainly states that pain can arise from POTENTIAL -not just actual- damage. And it is well established that phantom limb pain arises in the brain. Stump pain (which is different) has anatomical origins.

These dudes are ignoring 65 years of science. Pain is a BPS experience *by definition.* There are a zillion examples of pain w/o nociception. And a "sensation" can't be experienced without consciousness/ perception. Halp 🙄😑

Finally some good news 🧀

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🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️ Because only pain science employs the term "biopsychosocial," misunderstood by some to mean pain is "all in your head." Which isn't true and isn't what it means at all. (p.s. love this analogy!)

An interesting point! Empathic pain does indeed seem to be brain-generated, not a nociceptive phenomenon.

What's really idiotic about it is that this "debate" is being had by 1 PT in 1 tiny corner of SoMe. Meanwhile, science has zero Qs about this, because this debate has been put to bed with 60 years of neuroscience. A stress-related stomachache is pain without damage. There are a zillion examples.👏🏼

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Phantom limb pain is the perfect example of brain-made pain without nociception. I had a patient who lost his arm + hand in an accident. Injury had long healed. He had excruciating phantom hand pain that only remitted with mirror therapy (brain-based). This neuroscience has been known for decades 😑

Rad. 🔥

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Random acts of kindness, my friend. 🌟

This all day. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I love this account so much, thank you for existing 🫶🏼

Finally and thank the lord 👏🏼👏🏼

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I hear you and it's an important point. I humbly submit that it's both. The way we practice medicine is heavily influenced by our culture 😑

Absolutely. Strange that this connection continues to get ignored and dismissed by medicine...

Sigh. 🙄🤬

👎🏼 It's easy to believe that pain lives just in our aching back or bad knee.

🧠 But neuroscience says pain is constructed by the BRAIN-

💥 including the limbic system, key to constructing EMOTIONS 💥

‼️ Pain is both physical AND emotional 100% of the time 👏🏼👏🏼

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Thanks 🙏🏼🤓

Hi so I have imposter syndrome & just found out my little book on the science of Pain is being translated into *TWENTY FOUR* languages (including US & UK)?!! Here is the cover in Greek 🤯🤯🥹

Totally tweaking out & so insanely full of gratitude. Happy weekend Bsky 🫶
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This is just delightful 🥗

Omg 😍