Linked here is both a deep dive interview with Kyle and his healing from long COVID and chronic fatigue and an interview he first did with me for his channel. Kyle’s story is a great journey deep into himself and how he not only healed from these physical symptoms but gained and learned so much […]
I reviewed a research paper titled ‘Fearful thinking predicts hypervigilance towards pain-related stimuli in patients with chronic pain.’ Have a look at the video below to go over in more detail how hypervigilance and fear are big pieces in the production and maintenance of chronic pain and other chronic symptoms. The authors state in the […]
Here I go over in a video some of RE- words that are the essence of the brain re-training classes that I will be offering starting in February. If you are interested, you can learn more in the link here. Enrollment will be open beginning February 1st and you can sign up at anytime after […]
Today I go over a study that looked at the role of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in chronic pain. There are definite links between alterations and dysregulation in the ANS and people with chronic. In fact, the researchers sifted through over 17,000 studies on heart rate variability (HRV), which is a measure of your […]
I’m starting a series in 2025 called Evidence of the Week. Each week I will go over some research that is of interest and supports the work we are doing here on looking at and treating the brain and nervous system with chronic health conditions. Today I talk about back pain, dispelling 10 myths that […]
I wanted to share (via permission) from a patient of mine an example of how the brain can quickly produce severe physical symptoms with absolutely zero injury or physical cause. And also how these same severe symptoms can go away in short order if you approach them from the underlying cause- the brain, instead of […]
Research has identified a pain personality that is common amongst people suffering from chronic pain. Dr. Sarno, who many of you know, also identified common personality traits that he saw in his patients who suffered from many types of chronic health ailments. What the researchers found when looking at data from the past 120 years […]
Placebo and nocebo are real physiological effects generated by our brains. They have the power to turn symptoms on, up, or down. Past research has found our expectations (positive and negative) are the primary reason why placebo or nocebo effects occur. This 2024 systematic review found there is something more than expectation alone that contributes […]
In the early 2000’s, I started to think more deeply about chronic pain and other chronic symptoms that were not getting better through traditional physical therapy (physiotherapy). I was working in an outpatient physical therapy clinic focusing primarily on treating worker’s compensation injuries. What I began to see myself was also starting to show up […]
I wanted to highlight how fear of movement because of a symptom (like pain) can generalize to other safe movements from the learning mechanisms in the brain. This is called avoidance generalization. This 2023 study looked at how many people with chronic symptoms (pain) learn to avoid behaviors that cause more symptoms. This is called […]
