The Pain Equation

When you've thrown everything at your pain with minimal results it can feel like you're staring down the most complicated math problem you can imagine (like this poor guy in the image). The good news? Advances in the neuroscience of pain over the last decade or two have helped us get a much better understanding about the core inputs that go into the pain experience. Pain is, in many ways, a simple equation that your nervous system puts together, and if you learn what that is you can take the fuel out of the pain experience. Learn more about that equation here.

Chronic Pain Relief Basics

Pain can be a tricky thing to solve, especially when you’re dealing with long-term, chronic pain conditions. If your pain is relatively new, or the result of a recent injury, the clear order of the day is to simply be patient and do what’s needed to let your body heal. But if you’ve been challenged by more complex, chronic pain, the foundation of healing rests on one key thing: creating safety in your nervous system. Read on to learn some straightforward tools to help you do just that.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy: From Pain to Empowered

50 million adults in the US alone are reported to suffer from chronic pain (that number jumps to 1.2 billion adults globally!). Chronic pain defines our lives, limits what we can do, and perhaps most importantly, limits what we think we can do. The old paradigm for solving chronic pain tells us that something’s wrong with your body, that something’s broken and you need to fix it. The new paradigm understands that your pain doesn’t live in your body; it lives in your nervous system and you simply need to teach your brain that your body is safe. Pain Reprocessing Therapy does just that — read on to learn more.

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