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Excellent video! We are both in our 80's and feel better than ever! We are all about healthy aging. For us eating a whole-food plant-based diet was the key to our reversing life-threatening illnesses. We are doing research for our new healthy-aging advice YT channel to inspire others. Learned a lot here! Thank you.

Your videos are so good, very informative. You should consider many of your transcripts to be put into books in topics that are related. I think it would help many folks even doctors as they are very limited in the training they get. Keep sharing, I am always learning and sharing it. Bless you and yours and your work.

Thank you Dr. Furlan. I'm in tears, just by you saying "it's not in your imagination" . You have given me hope! Lots of information and options here.💖

My favorite MD on RU-vid and even on the internet. Thanks for this video. I used to meditate and since life has been ok, I stopped. And just like that the pain from cervical radiculopathy has returned. Adding mindfulness meditation to my stack.

Dr Andrea, I've just come from watching your excellent video on osteoarthritis, now yet another very informative video. Giving hope and tools to self empower anyone suffering from chronic pain. You are so good, Thank you Andrea 🙏

You are a God send. You are a true, genuine advocate for your patients and I thank you for putting out your videos.

Thank you Dr. Furlan for this informative video about the evidence basis for mind-body therapies. I am a social worker & trauma-sensitive yoga & mindfulness instructor not far from you in Kingston, ON. I will share your video with my audience. With gratitude for your dedication and important work!

I am embracing my life now since finding you and your videos one step at a time thank you 🙏 Dr Andrea x

Incredible informative video!! I love learning more about the 5M in an effective and efficient way for everyone to understand! Stay safe and well is what I wish to Dr. Furlan and her family! 👏🏻

Thank you for all of your wisdom Dr. Furlan!

This was a wonderful and informational video; thank you for sharing your knowledge Dr. Furlan. I wish you a pleasant end to your year and healthy new year!

Dr Furlan, you are such a good instructor and I’ve listened to you for 4 hrs bc I have Cervical Radiculopathy, CSS and Fibro. I did the exercises and I could truly feel the relief but pain returned shortly after bc I have to get in habit of doing them everyday and I will. Thank you!

Excellent explanation and scientific program… Thanks a lot 🙏🙏

Thank you for sharing! As always, great information for our patients.

Excellent video inf thank you 😊

Dear dr Furnal, this is a great service, you are doing to the mankind. May god’s blessings keep you healthy and joyful and your life becomes a celebration

Such a wonderdul explanation..thank you Dr.Furlan..evertime I suffer from migraine or lower back pain my focus is only on the pain the whole day untill the pain subsides..I realized how this use to only aggravate my condition..now I feel so positive that am determined to shift my focus on something else by accepting the pain and not waste my energy on it

glad I have found this brilliant, holistic examination of various pain experiences. and the message that just because a syndrom has a name or a diagnosis, doesn't mean it is immutable.

wonderful video! I fully share your approach to illness and have always believed that through training the mind, in many ways, it can be a tool, not just for pain management, but a way to achieve inner balance that leads to peace. When we have peace, everything is easier. Keeping constant peace requires a great commitment to being always present, always aware... But not easy specially if you can not share with other in the same condition... Please, dear Drª Andrea, can you share the link to these therapies online, as well as groups of people with chronic pain, if any? It would be very usefull Thank you once more 🌹🕊️🙏🏽

Very True, Very True. I go through these Emotions and fully agree with you.

Professora Andrea uma aula muito clara e importante. Congratulations (Vivian falou do seu trabalho)

Excellent video ! One of the best RU-vid channels.

Mind can make a mountain of molehill and also the converse. The more attention we pay to any pain, the more severe it appear to be. Ignore the pain and it is soon forgotten. Learning new things/ arts / crafts/ languages keeps the mind well occupied and act better than any pain killer. Positive emotions sweep away the negative thoughts about pains. I love your holistic approach in treating people with pain. :)

Awesome video, I'm so glad that I found you... Thank you

Hallow? Is very good I'm learning a lots. Thank you. Continue PL.

شكرا جزيلا د أندريا ♥️

Great video..Detailed and well explained.

Dr Andrea Furlan you give to good knowledge to people thank you so much giving to Emf ,i try to see you all vidio thank you so much

Nicely done, Andrea, well thought out and well-presented, with good video techniques. Are there more videos in this series? I'm particularly interested in the medication one. (PS - you look great!) I would love to discuss/interview you regarding expansion of the aids you present in this video, we're already in touch on Twitter @CanadaPain, for both my advocacy and the book I'm writing, "Fully Intended Consequences" (copyright). Keep up the great work, it's heartening to know there are doctors out there who truly care, in pain management, and are trying to present support and alternative therapies while not dismissing the pain. This is critical. If only the effective alternatives to medication were covered by OHIP and easy to access. Our health care system needs a complete and total overhaul in meeting patient's needs, starting with reinstating physiotherapy, and providing ACT and MBSR training free of charge. Many of us are already having to choose between medication and food... physio, ACT, even Yoga - a great pain management tool - is beyond a poverty-based budget. Stay safe and healthy in these challenging times, I hope you and yours are all faring well. Thanks again, and keep up the good work. Let's talk. Laura Robertson - CPASS Chronic Pain Support Services Patient Advocate, Peer Counsellor chronic pain @ bell . net (no spaces)

Thank you❤ I am really very, very happy that you have Arabic translations for most of your videos I hope you will put a translation for this video, the series, and the rest as well!

Thank you doctor for you effort💖 From Jordan

So informative,i like it

Thank you for your excellent videos. Have you explored doing a video on dry-needling or acupuncture? I have talked to people who have done both of these and had wonderful results and no longer take medications for pain. Thank you so much! So glad I found your videos.

I did not know that what I was doing was ACT but now I see that. I was in a wheelchair because of my pain. Every time I rode past a wall of climbing grips in the gym, where I would hold on to a railing and walk 20 feet 3 times, I thought "Maybe, by the time I am 60, I can take a walk along the south rim of the Grand Canyon." I was 44. I left the wheelchair 18 months later but I held on to my dream. When I was 57, the company I was working for sent me to a conference in Las Vegas, NV. I went early, rented a car, and drove to the Grand Canyon. I took a walk along the south rim and listened to a park ranger explain that only 1% of visitors actually go INTO the canyon. I wondered if I could do that. Back home I went to a trainer I knew and asked if she thought I could ever do a hike into the Grand Canyon. She was certain I could, so I trained for 3 years. Three days before my 60th birthday, my sister and I went with a guided group to the bottom of the canyon where we camped 2 nights. On my 60th birthday, I hiked up the 9+ miles. It was harder than anything I could imagine and I temporarily developed serious asthma/bronchitis due to Mast Cell Activation, but I did it. It showed me that both the journey AND the destination are important to me. I am 73 now and am looking at sustainable options such as yoga or dancing. Yes, I still have the chronic pain. I also have a life. Thank you for your contribution to this field!!

You are amazing ! I’ve been doing mind based therapy for pelvic pain. Thank you

Very informative.

Thank you Dr..really helpful info. If you can, please share some therapist details who can assist us 🙏

I’ve known about some of these for years, some are new to me. I took part in a tinnitus study which taught me to practice these principles. I still hear ear noises, they’re not going away but I don’t have to pay attention to them.

Thank you so much 🙏🏻. Can you talk about EMDR?

So Dr Furlan how do I use my mind to manage my 24/7 pain at: C3/4 - moderate right neural exit stenosis (contacting right C4) C4/5 - moderate left and mild right neural exit stenosis (contacting bilateral C5). C5/6 - spondylolisthesis, moderate left and mild right neural exit stenosis (contacting bilateral C6). C6/7 - moderate bilateral neural exit stenosis (contacting bilateral C7) C7/T1 - mild bilateral neural exit stenosis (contacting bilateral C8). Multi-level thoracic spine discogenic disease and multilevel facet joint arthropathy. Lumbar spine Diffuse spondylosis/degeneration, most significant at L2/3 and L5/S1 levels Multilevel disc-osteophyte complexes resulting in right L2/3, L3/4 and L4/5 foraminal stenoses. Some increased disc degenerative activity at C5/6 with less-marked disc degenerative activity at C4/5 and to a minimal degree at C6/7. Slight increased activity in the left T2/3 facet joint. Lumber spine - marked increased disc degenerative activity at L2/3 and L5/S1, slight increased activity at right L4/5 and left L5/S1 facet joints. I am sick and tired of the meds that give me side effects. Can I really manage this using mindfulness and CBT. What do you sick about acupuncture? Thank you.

Dr Furlan, thank you so much for your videos. I've been at this a little over a year. The only things that have helped so far are cannabis and the mind/body approach. Both of which I learned about more from you than just about any doc here in the US. I highly recommend the following apps- Calm, Insight Timer and Curable. Thanks again1

Do you do personal consultation. Thanks 🙏

Can you control the smell with your mind? Or others sens?

Huh. Does ACT mean you don’t continue pursuing pain managing treatments (meds, surgery, physio, etc) and just accept everything as is, or is pursuing reasonable treatment considered part of the committal bit? Because if not then that seems a bit extreme. Thanks you for your videos, especially the one explaining CRPS. Helped me communicate with my family about my health more effectively.

Have you ever dealt with chronic pain caused by pudendal neuralgia. Thanks

She's brilliant and compassionate, but, like most mind / body pain resources, she only exists on the internet. I'm in the NYC area, and there is ONE doctor like her out here. If he's not a great fit for you, it's cortisone shots and more failed PT visits. Care that acknowledges the non physical aspects of pain is hard to get.

You hear some people speak about kratom. What are your thoughts about this herb in its natural leaf state?

Is it possible, how?

Do you do online consultation with patients?

ohhh mam thx a lot i have fibromylgia ......i am on my recovery journey

I am pretty angry at times when I think of injustice done to me by certain individuals. I never express these feelings to them nor to anyone else for that matter. Is there anything I could possibly do? By getting angry I am the only one that is losing and not those that have done wrong to me.

Porque no tiene traducción en español?

What about HYPNOSIS???

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Доктор Фурлан поставьте пожалуйста субтитры на русском языке мне интересна ваши рассказы 🇺🇿

I also do not like that name-- catastrophizers.