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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee · January 16, 2025 · 72m
How to Heal Chronic Pain Without Medication
Dr. Howard Schubiner on the neuroplastic model of chronic pain: the brain generates pain signals even after tissue healing is complete. His Unlearn Your Pain program uses psychological techniques to retrain the brain and eliminate pain that has no structural cause.
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Schubiner: chronic emotional suppression (particularly anger, fear, and sadness) activates the same brain regions that process physical pain. In patients who suppress emotions, the brain converts emotional distress into physical pain symptoms.
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Most chronic pain has no structural cause — the brain generates pain as a learned response
Schubiner: neuroimaging studies show that in many chronic pain conditions (back pain, fibromyalgia, IBS), there is no ongoing tissue damage. The brain has learned to produce pain signals as a 'danger alarm' that persists long after the original injury has healed.Was this useful?