Episode 26: Grief and Pain (Part I) - When Grief Meets Pain

Grief and Chronic Pain: Why Loss Amplifies Pain and What to Do About It Dr. Zev Nevo introduces a three-part series on grief and chronic pain, describing a patient whose longstanding low back pain sharply worsened after her husband’s sudden death despite unchanged imaging, framing it as nervous system grief rather than bodily damage. He explains how grief disrupts the HPA axis and cortisol rhythm, increases inflammatory signaling (including a 2022 study of 111 bereaved spouses showing higher ...