Chronic Pain is Surprisingly Treatable – When Patients Focus on the Brain

A recent study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, demonstrated that a novel psychotherapy technique, Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is highly effective at reducing or completely eliminating chronic back pain (average duration 11 years). Find out more about this study in this Washington Post article, or read the original medical journal article here. Another study shows the benefits of a similar form of psychological treatment for chronic pain here. I am trained in PRT and have found it to be very helpful for clients with chronic pain, as well as other stress-related symptoms such as migraine, vertigo, nausea, TMJ dysfunction, tinnitus, interstitial cystitis and irritable bowel syndrome,

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