Evidence Base
These peer-reviewed studies demonstrate the effectiveness of mind-body approaches for chronic pain. The evidence is clear: the brain can be retrained.
4 studies
66% became pain or nearly pain-free with pain reprocessing therapy, maintained at one year.
For chronic back pain, 64% of patients reported being pain-free in the PSRT arm versus 25% in MBSR and 17% in usual care.
Up to a 55% decrease in symptoms over 13 weeks. Mean symptom duration prior to the study was 267 days.
A randomised controlled trial showing significant benefit from EAET versus CBT and FM education.
Why it matters
The biopsychosocial method is now taught to medical practitioners worldwide, including in Australia, the US, and the NHS in the UK. This is no longer fringe science.
These studies represent a new understanding of pain: that the brain can both create and resolve it. If your pain hasn't responded to structural treatments, there is likely a neuroplastic component.
"What the brain has learned,
it can unlearn."
Your next step
The research shows it's possible. Thousands of people have recovered from conditions conventional medicine couldn't resolve, using exactly this approach.
You could be next.