The Science

What Causes Chronic Pain?

I am delighted to tell you that there is new help for chronic pain sufferers and for people with other medically unexplained diagnoses such as IBS, long covid, chronic fatigue, migraine, anxiety, back pain, fibromyalgia and many more. If you have been to several medical professionals and are still not getting better, you may benefit from this approach. You may even have been given a diagnosis for your chronic pain, but if your pain has not resolved, then there has to be a neuroplastic component to it.

It is important to stress that ALL PAIN IS REAL — it is not imaginary or ‘all in your head’. All pain originates in the brain, and to treat chronic pain, you must start with the brain. These insights come from the most recent scientific studies into the causes of chronic pain.

Sufferers of chronic pain are often unaware that pain can get “stuck” in the body when neural circuits keep sending pain signals, even after the body is safe. This can happen for many reasons, including stress, trauma, or unprocessed emotions. Pain can also persist as a learned response — for example, when an injury has healed but the pain continues. This is where Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) can help the brain turn off the danger and pain signals.

The biopsychosocial method is the most up-to-date approach to treating chronic pain and is now being taught to medical practitioners worldwide, including Australia, the US, and the NHS in the UK. I have trained under Dr. Howard Schubiner, a pioneer in mind-body medicine, and I work with many people of all ages and conditions, with life-changing results. Let me help you too.