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.