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Pain, injury and rehabMental healthChronic painBack and neck painPhysical therapy and rehab

Howard Schubiner explains how chronic pain can be caused by learned neural pathways in the brain and how to treat it.

Howard Schubiner, MD, is a clinician, author and researcher who has conducted ground-breaking research on a treatment plan that can resolve, rather than manage, chronic pain. Pain isn’t what you think. Neuroscientists are now explaining pain in a way that is counterintuitive to both lay people and physicians. A significant proportion of individuals with chronic pain do not have structural abnormalities, but have pain due to learned neural pathways in the brain. Dr. Schubiner, author of Unlearn Your Pain and co-author of upcoming book, Hidden from View, reviews the current state of brain research and a new form of psychological treatment for fibromyalgia that is superior to the standard treatments. More info here: unlearnyourpain.com/

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What people say. Highly recommended as a scientifically rigorous yet accessible explanation of psychosomatic chronic pain and its treatment.

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On “A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”

If you think you suffer from CFS please check out Dr. Howard Schubiner and read his book. link to this video I suffered from chronic pain symptoms for almost 10 years (was unable play the piano and type on the keyboard) until I realized it was 100% psychosomatic.

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On “The anus is an evolutionary marvel”

If you read some of John Sarno's stuff on psychosomatic pain, it seems highly plausible that most pain is just psychosomatic in nature. link to this video good video on this

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On “Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI”

…e first image). Like, you might hear about Sarno's mindbody connection and think it's total quackery because of the language. Maybe it triggers the BS detector in a lot of us. So listen to the same ideas from other perspectives. The author links to Schubiner's talk on chronic pain, which I heartily recommend as the right balance of rigor and tone: link to this video . Curable helped me too: link . Click through until you get to the audio sections and give them a listen. Testimonials from tech people may help break the old mental model of pain, or at least point convincingly to resources that do. Josh Comeau, the CSS guy, has a post that links to further testimonials: https:www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/mi…