I recently certified in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a system of cutting-edge, mindfulness-driven psychological techniques for resolving chronic pain. Most chronic pain is neuroplastic (not structural), created when our brains misinterpret normal, safe signals from the body as if they're dangerous. Solving neuroplastic chronic pain can be a simple process, but how can you know if your pain comes from structural injury (a common, but frequently inaccurate, assessment under our current medical model) or because we’ve learned to be in pain? Read on to learn more.

Pain, Chronic Pain, mindfulnessMike WilliamsMarch 6, 2023pain relief, chronic pain, Pain Reprocessing TherapyComment

Solving Chronic Pain

Recent advances in pain science have taught us that, in order to solve chronic pain, you must holistically address the physical, psychological, and relational elements that go with it. It sounds pretty complicated, but what does that type of healing really look like? In this blog I share one of my all-time favorite client case studies that demonstrates how multidimensional this work can be, and the powerful transformation that awaits when you commit to this type of journey.

Information Medicine

What if chronic pain was mainly bad information? When we’re in pain, our tendency is to search for structural reasons for the pain — is there disc degeneration, a torn ligament, an abnormality in a joint? Studies have shown though that most structural damage is not the cause of chronic pain, and that pain processing shifts over time to the parts of our brain associated with memory, learning & emotion. We “learn” to be in chronic pain. And if we can learn to be in chronic pain, we can also unlearn it. Read on to learn more.

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