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Kate's Recovery from Undiagnosable Symptoms

One morning, Kate woke up with a pain in her neck. She didn't think much of it until the symptoms started to spread to all over her body. Over the course of a year and a

How We Built the Curable App (Part II of the Curable App Founders' Special)

Is it possible to help people reduce chronic pain just by using an app? The co-founders of Curable were hopeful that the answer would be “yes” - and it was. This episode

Pain is the Worst (Part I of the Curable App Founders' Special)

In the years before the Curable App was born, its three founding members were plagued by dozens of unexplainable symptoms and chronic ailments. They spent years of wasted

Life After Opioids: How Pain Can Improve Without Pills (Beth Darnall, PhD)

After fighting her own battle with chronic pain at a young age, Dr. Beth Darnall is on a mission to provide people in pain with the answers and access she wishes she had

Why Spinal Surgery Doesn’t Solve Back Pain, According to a Spine Surgeon (David Hanscom, MD)

David Hanscom, MD, explains why spine surgery is not the antidote that so many people with chronic back pain seek.

Physical Therapy Begins In The Brain (Tim Flynn, PT, PhD)

Why do we look at medical imaging to determine the cause of someone’s pain, even when research has proven that there’s no correlation between the two? Why do most clinici

We’re All Just A Bundle Of Neural Pathways (Alan Gordon, LCSW)

Alan Gordon has spent his entire career helping people to overcome pain they’ve been told is incurable. How? By looking at it from a different perspective: as a neural pa

Stumped: A Double-Boarded Physician’s Quest to Cure Her Chronic Pain (Alicia Batson, MD)

When a double-boarded physician developed pain conditions so severe she couldn’t lift a dinner plate, she thought her career was over. For a full decade, she was out of a

Susan vs. Migraine: One Woman’s Life-Changing Journey With the Curable App

San Francisco attorney Susan Brown battled migraines since junior high. After countless rounds of Botox, a weeklong inpatient hospital stay, nerve blocks, triptans, and j

Aaron's Journey to Recovery from Foot Pain

In his mid-thirties, Aaron led a pretty normal life - he was married with kids, an active runner, and the breadwinner of his family. Then one day, all of that changed. A

The "Giver’s Glow": How Volunteering Can Improve Your Health (Stephen Post, PhD)

Is giving really receiving in disguise? According to Dr. Stephen Post, best-selling author of “Why Good Things Happen To Good People,” that’s usually the case. He says we

Unraveling the Mystery of Fibromyalgia (Howard Schubiner, MD)

Dr. Howard Schubiner has appeared on the list of Best Doctors In America three times - and there’s a good reason why. Patients flock to him from around the country to get

Here’s Why Your Diet Isn’t Working, According to Science (Alia Crum, PhD)

Why do diets make you feel so hungry? Why do some people only lose weight when they stop counting calories? How come you can exercise just as much as your peers, but not

From Medical Mystery to MD: Saved By Sarno (John Stracks, MD)

Before he was a doctor, John Stracks was the medical mystery no one could figure out. With neurological symptoms extending all across his body, he was desperate for anyth

Writing to Heal Your Life (Researcher John Evans)

John Evans knows first-hand how transformative a few writing sessions can be to someone's physical and mental health. 13 years ago, he picked up Jamie Pennebaker's hallma

What a Pain in the Brain! (Neuroscientist Tor Wager, PhD)

"What does it matter what we think?" That's the question Dr. Tor Wager has spent years in the research lab trying to answer. Now, as Director of the Cognitive and Affecti

Forgiveness Is Not What You Think It Is (Fred Luskin, PhD)

Forgiveness is not the same as reconciliation. It’s not the same as justice or vengeance. So what on earth is it? After years of personal struggle with an unforgiving hea

Even Yoga Masters Break Down Sometimes (Leslie Kaminoff)

Leslie Kaminoff has been an internationally recognized yoga and breathing expert for decades. So what happened when he lost his breath for six months? When he lost contro

The Long-Term Impact of Childhood Adversity (David Clarke, MD)

Dr. David Clarke has spent his career helping people recover from mysterious aches and pains across their body. The diagnosis? "Stress Illness" - the body's extreme physi

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