The pain system can be leveraged to understand the difference between injury and pain and to interpret pain signals.

“The pain system offers us a number of different principles that we can leverage to, A, ensure that if we are ever injured, we are able to understand the difference between injury and pain because there is a difference, that if we're ever in pain, that we can understand the difference between injury and pain, that we will be able to interpret our pain, and during the course of today's podcast, I'm going to cover protocols that help eliminate pain from both ends of the spectrum, from the periphery, at the level of the injury, and through these top-down mental mechanisms.”