Conversations About the Journey Through Chronic Pain
Care Beyond the Pain is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Jason W. Siefferman, Founder and Medical Director of Manhattan Pain Medicine.
Each episode explores a different part of the chronic pain journey through conversations with the people who experience it, study it, diagnose it, treat it, and help others navigate it.
For patients and families, the podcast offers context for a process that can often feel difficult to understand: finding the right care, evaluating treatment options, managing setbacks, and recognizing what progress may look like.
For clinicians and healthcare professionals, the conversations offer perspectives across specialties and disciplines, exploring how different approaches can contribute to a more complete understanding of complex pain.
The goal is not to provide individual medical advice or a single answer to chronic pain. It is to bring together experiences, expertise, and questions that can help make the journey easier to understand.
Latest Episodes
New episodes of Care Beyond the Pain are released weekly.
Explore conversations about diagnosis, treatment, recovery, multidisciplinary care, the patient experience, and the many factors that shape life with chronic pain.
S1E1 – When Pain Doesn’t Show Up on a Scan | Dr. Joshua Weaver
Dr. Jason Siefferman sits down with neurologist Dr. Joshua Weaver to explore why pain does not always show up clearly on imaging or diagnostic testing. They discuss peripheral neuropathy, nervous system sensitization, fibromyalgia, and why listening, clinical examination, continuity of care, and an iterative approach can be essential when the diagnosis is not immediately clear.
Learn more about Dr. Joshua Weaver at Weill Cornell Medicine.
S1E0 – The Chronic Pain Journey: Discovery, Treatment, and Maintenance
Dr. Jason Siefferman introduces the framework behind Care Beyond the Pain, exploring the three phases of the chronic pain journey: Discovery, Treatment, and Maintenance. He explains why understanding how and why pain persists is essential, how treatment can help refine a diagnosis, and why progress is rarely a straight line.
