Unlearning Pain with Pain Reprocessing Therapy — Demonstration by Alan Gordon LCSW

This is a live demonstration of a new treatment to reverse chronic pain called Pain Reprocessing Therapy, which uses a form of guided mindfulness called "somatic tracking" to re-process danger signals.

PRT was recently demonstrated to cure chronic back pain for 66% percent of people who were randomly assigned to it in an NIH-funded trial. PRT retrains the brain to unlearn pain through neuroplastic changes and fear reduction.

More info about the film, the study, and the treatment at:

We were fortunate to film a live demonstration with one of the innovators of PRT, Alan Gordon, LCSW, founder of the Pain Psychology Center. He was presenting at a conference with Howard Schubiner, MD called “Breaking The Pain Cycle” — Beyond Pain Management, at Providence Hospital in Southfield, MI. Check out Gordon's book, The Way Out.

[zzzleepyhead]

I'm dealing with chronic pain as a side-effect of my narcolepsy. I'm also on the ASD spectrum and struggle with sensory issues. I can't help but wonder if this also relates to my misophonia -- all of yhese symptoms started becoming stronger around the onset of my narcolepsy at the age of 15.

Previously reframing the pain had nearly eliminated the pain when I tried it, turning it to a warm almost pleasurable feeling. when I realized this was possible, since I have no body injuries, and it was so surreal...I don't want to take gabapentin anymore, if I can overcome this pain I'll feel like a true superhero.

[RICKYDENNIS]

I have lived with long term chronic pain due to lower back issues for over thirty years. This spinal tissue damage is still present. Big question. I have now watched a great many of these retraining the brain videos and similar treatments. The vast number of these videos talk about therapy and methods of adjusting the brain when the tissue damage is no longer present. My big question is this, Can these treatments help if the tissue damage causing this pain is still present ? A definitive answer to this question would be so very helpful. Chronic pain has dominated my life for over thirty years. Pain relieving drugs have come close to killing me on several occasions. Over the years I have tried so many third party treatments without success. Do I need to accept the pain and cope with life in the best I can or is there really a way for treatments like the one in this video helping. All advice and help would be very much appreciated.

[YellowPineappleHoyas]

What if you actually do have something “structural wrong”? I assume this not work then, right?