As a long term sufferer of chronic pain, I was delighted to discover that there is a method that is founded in neuroscience, that could really explain what was going on with the chronic pain that I have tried so many approaches to dealing with. I was so impressed at it that I decided to train as a therapist.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy enables you to ascertain whether the pain you are experiencing is neuroplastic, which means learned neural pathways in the brain, as opposed so structural issues. What the scientists have found fascinates me – acute (less than 3 months in duration) pain lights up different areas in the brain to chronic pain (which lights up the amygdala – the fight/flight centre of the brain). With PRT, we are able to teach our brain that sensations that it is interpreting as dangerous are actually safe.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy is NOT saying that the pain is all in your head – it’s not. It’s just as real as structural pain, it’s just different neural pathways. It is also not about just changing the way you think about the pain, it’s a process of teaching your primitive brain that the danger it is perceiving is not actually there.
Next week I will be posting a video of a free class to help you to identify whether your pain might be neuroplastic in nature, and what you can do about it if it is.
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