The Way Out: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Heal Chronic Pain

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In one of their younger patients, whom they saw weekly, a total transformation occurred within 3 months. million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Needless to say, my pain was so overwhelming and intrusive that I would literally try anything to get my life back. Alan Gordon now leads a team of twenty-five therapists at the Pain Psychology Center (of which he is the founder and Director too). I try all sorts of things for my pain; physio, tens, painkillers, yoga, hot and cold compress, activity, massage, rest etc.

PRT is rooted in neuroscience, which has shown that while chronic pain feels like it's coming from the body, in most cases it's generated by misfiring pain circuits in the brain. Alan Gordon is the founder and director of the Pain Psychology Center in California, a leading treatment facility for chronic pain sufferers that sees over 1,500 patients from around the world every year. of your pain along with a lot of positive thoughts and the repeated mantra that there is NOTHING wrong with your body -- your tissues, muscles, back, spine, stomach, wrists, etc.

Edit: retroactively changing this to a 4 because honestly I have started trying this technique and it is working to reduce my pain.

It’s not a huge amount of new info for me, but it is written in such a wonderful way, that I feel like I have learned so much. It combines accessible science with a concrete, step-by-step plan to teach sufferers how to heal their own chronic pain. Debilitated by chronic pain throughout his body for several years and frustrated by the lack of effective treatment, Gordon developed the ground-breaking Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) – a highly effective system of psychological techniques that rewire the brain’s neural circuits to turn off “stuck” pain signals. The trick is to overcome the relapse by employing the same tactics that caused the neuroplastic pain to disappear in the first place, and originally. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Alan Gordon summarises our current understanding of neuroplasticity and how each and every one of us can apply that, and in my mind the scope goes much beyond chronic pain. Gordon has also completed a groundbreaking neuroimaging study on the efficacy of PRT in conjunction with the University of Colorado-Boulder. Scans showed nothing wrong- no brain lesions or tumors, no inflamed blood vessels, no swollen sinuses, no pinched nerves. The therapy is an easy to follow process, the authors have made it clear and given advice for when any inevitable set backs occur. The insidious trifecta of worry, self-criticism and self-imposed pressure combine in the most adverse of fashion, according to Gordon to exacerbate the degree of neuroplastic pain.