Pain  Performance, Ryan Whited
Pain  Performance, Ryan Whited
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Pain & Performance
The Revolutionary New Way to Use Training as Treatment for Pain and Injury

Author: Ryan Whited, Matt Fitzgerald

Narrator: Gregory Abbey

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/02/2024


Synopsis

What if everything you know about pain is wrong?

For starters, pain is not synonymous with being “injured.” It’s also not evidence that your biomechanics are “flawed” or your body is “imbalanced.” And most important, pain doesn’t always mean you have to see a doctor.

In Pain & Performance, Ryan Whited and Matt Fitzgerald present a radically new way for athletes to understand and manage pain that exposes the shocking lack of evidence for modern medicine’s approach to pain and injury management. Based on many years of research and a greater appreciation of the complexity of pain as a lived experience, Whited’s revolutionary “Training as Treatment” method puts you in control of your pain experience as you build mental and physical resilience.

Learning this simple, three-step process will start you on a path to better performance and a more fulfilling athletic journey with less downtime, fewer visits to clinicians, less anxiety about pain and injury, and less time and money wasted on treatments that don’t work.

An elite boulderer and son of a chronically injured professional horse jockey, Whited brings a pragmatic approach to a complex process. As a trainer, he has spent decades guiding athletes from breakdowns to breakthroughs at Paragon Athletics, a magnet for pain-affected runners, climbers, and recreational athletes who’ve grown frustrated with the medical system. Pain & Performance makes Whited’s unparalleled knowledge of pain science and physiology available to anyone seeking to stay out of the doctor’s office and on track toward their goals.

"Training as Treatment is a fresh and innovative approach to understanding and working with pain rather than against it. By helping athletes face fear and reframe pain, Ryan Whited facilitates a shift in mindset that fosters a healthy, lifelong relationship to sport and performance.”—Rob Krar, coach and ultrarunning champion

This audiobook contains a supplemental PDF with a Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire and a link to video demonstrations of exercises to get started on a Training as Treatment plan.

Reviews

Skim-reading the last half of the book, the author repeated too much information, included too many personal stories, and mentioned too many times about his business (Advertising is good but too many). The training as treatment itself sounds good and I believe in the method, but the writing was poor......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne

I totally agree with Whited's ideas on pain and how to deal with it, but the book was very repetitive. The science was especially interesting, but there was too much personal information that was not directly connected to the topic. We do need to change our attitudes toward pain, and this book is a......more

Goodreads review by Jack

Great information about the upcoming science and understanding of pain, how it works, and what impacts it. Skip the forst two chapters and last two chapters as they are mainly the authors life story, as well as summarizing what has already been said, and applying it to your own training.......more

Goodreads review by Alex

Food for thought. Going to try reframing my idea of pain.......more