Insight: Feb 17
Is Steve Pete the most fascinating person to be interviewed on TV all week?
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Is Steve Pete the most fascinating person to be interviewed on TV all week?
Steve Pete has broken his bones more than 70 times. But he’s never felt physical pain.
He appears on the first new episode of 2015 to explore how we deal with pain.
Pete has a congenital insensitivity to pain that he describes as both a blessing and a curse. It’s allowed him to take risks from a young age – but it’s also meant he’s often been seriously injured without even realising it.
He’s joined by some of Australia’s top sportspeople who regularly play with and beat pain, including Australian fast bowler Ryan Harris.
They’ll share some of their secrets for getting on top of niggling injuries, discussing the relationship between body and mind.
Gold Walkley award-winning host Jenny Brockie will also hear from pain specialists about some unusual burgeoning treatment methods.
Guests include:
Ryan Harris
Australian fast bowler: “I’d love to meet a bowler who’d walk out onto the field pain free, I don’t think I’ve met one yet.”
Steve Pete
Congenital insensitivity to pain: “My T8 and T9 vertebra were fractured and I went probably seven or eight months not even knowing that it had occurred”.
Lorimer Moseley
Pain expert: “ I think the most powerful shift that we can undergo in our own sense of what pain is, is to let go this of idea of a pain being sent to your brain because that doesn’t happen. There’s no such thing a pain message.”
David Martin
Senior sports physiologist at AIS: “With elite athletes, winners are grinners, it’s amazing what (pain) they can cope with, (but) when that dream is over the pain is almost unbearable.”
Lesley Brydon
Head of PainAustralia: “Psychological therapies play a major role in pain programs and fortunately we’re now starting to see them introduced.“
Ryan Kagan
Lost his hand and still feels pain: “The terminology is phantom pain and it’s the fact that your limb is still absolutely there, but yet it’s nowhere there. It’s quite obvious for me I’m missing my right hand”
Tuesday, 17 February at 8.30pm on SBS ONE.
One Response
I will be tuning in. As someone who was born with a medical condition brittle bones, I have a very high pain tolerance. I rarely feel pain once I have broken a bone. When I feel pain, it must be a very bad injury.