The Way Out: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Heal Chronic Pain

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Frustrated with conventional pain management, he developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a mind-body protocol that eliminated his own chronic pain and has transformed the lives of thousands of his patients.

It is relatively short and easily digestible, but even someone skimming a chapter or two would gain a lot of insight in ways to recontextualize their chronic pain. Very, very useful indeed and an absolute lifesaver if you’re willing to accept that your mind and body are connected and that your brain can cause the pain that you are feeling. Another thing I rate this book for, is it’s brevity; there’s enough detail to ensure everything is clear and covered but no superfluous text.

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Which is a bunch of things, really, but chiefly somatic tracking, which sounds a lot like mindfulness (thank you, Buddha! Chronic pain is real, even if its origins are in the brain and not the area of the body where the pain is felt. The therapy is an easy to follow process, the authors have made it clear and given advice for when any inevitable set backs occur. The goal is to get your brain off high alert, to almost hypnotize it into understanding it is in a SAFE STATE and, as all the tests have proven, you don't have a killer disease, and everything is COOL.

Even better, Alan Gordon and Alan Ziv have a way of writing using personal experiences and lively stories that takes a concept that can be difficult to comprehend and puts it into an approachable narrative that is enjoyable to read. In addition to back, neck and knee pains, he also suffered from heel pain tongue pain, eye pain, tooth pain toe pain (three different toes! Scans showed nothing wrong- no brain lesions or tumors, no inflamed blood vessels, no swollen sinuses, no pinched nerves. Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a system of psychological techniques designed to rewire the brain and break the cycle of chronic pain. Ab und zu spüre ich noch etwas Spannung im Rücken aber durch die Tools, die im Buch erklärt werden, habe ich endlich das Gefühl es im Griff zu bekommen.

I recently started seeing a therapist who specializes in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and she recommended this book to me as an overview of the technique. This was recommended to be by an excellent pain psychologist as part of my treatment program after lots of useless appointments with lots of health professionals with (what felt like) no hope.It's hard to admit my pain is "all in my head" (which is a pun in more ways than one), and while I do believe I have migraine disease, I don't believe that every single day of my bizarre facial/head pain is migraine, I believe it is neuroplastic pain. The author states that chronic pain is real, but "the pain is due to your brain making a mistake and. But Gordon and Ziv warn their readers to be prepared for the occasional ‘relapse’ of a neuroplastic pain episode.

If you’re unsure whether to purchase this, I would strongly advise jumping in any trying these techniques, and if you need more convincing check out Alan’s podcast first.

An hour into the book my pain started to drift away as I learned how neuroplastic pain enters the body. I felt my own injured hip (following a nasty automobile accident four years later) act truant by the time I finished listing Dr.