Long COVID & Chronic Fatigue Recovery Plus An Extra Interview
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…
Evidence of the Week: How Hypervigilance and Fear Impact Chronic Pain
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…
RE-Training Your Brain Out Of Chronic Pain & Symptoms
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.…
Your Autonomic Nervous System Plays a Role in Chronic Pain
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.…
Evidence of the Week: 10 Back Myths vs. 10 Back Facts
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…
An example of how the brain can produce severe physical symptoms
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…
2 personality traits associated with chronic pain from 120 years of research
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…
How Your Attention Impacts the Placebo & Nocebo Effect
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…
Study: Work Psychological Factors Increase Risk for Back Pain
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…
Avoiding behaviors because of symptoms generalizes to other behaviors
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…
