Pain treatment isn’t failing because clinicians don’t care — it’s failing because we may be measuring, reasoning, and treating the wrong things. From outdated pain scales to over-reliance on research models that don’t reflect real patients, many clinicians are stuck using systems that don’t match reality.

In this episode, Dr. David Walton — physiotherapist, pain scientist, and researcher at Western University — breaks down what we’re getting wrong about pain, why outcomes are inconsistent, and how clinicians can think differently to get better results in complex cases.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn

• Why pain scales (0–10) may be misleading your clinical decisions
• The real predictors of recovery in musculoskeletal pain
• How psychological factors influence outcomes more than physical ones
• Why rand ...