Neuro Plastic Pain

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Many people are thinking that the cause of their pain is something on a structural, bio mechanical level. So shifting from that to saying, oh, the cause of my pain is narrow pathways and fear is it is a major shift That's step one. Step two is getting the person in paint on board with that assessment. And for that, it really helps to have evidence. This is not an leap of faith we're asking anyone to take. But how do you no, there's soething actually wrong there? You know? What's the evidence for that? Maybe there's strong evidence, maybe there isn't. The appendix has a more detailed elaboration of all these factors i was

Yoni Ashar is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist. Yoni’s research uses brain imaging and other tools to understand how beliefs and emotions influence health, especially pain, and to develop novel neuroscience-based treatments for chronic pain. Yoni is a post-doctoral associate at Weil-Cornell Medicine and completed his doctorate at the University of Colorado.

In this episode, Eric and Yoni Ashar discuss the indicators of and evidence-based treatment for Neuroplastic Pain.

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Yoni Ashar and I Discuss Neuroplastic Pain and…

The indicators of Neuroplastic Pain
The difference between Short Term vs Chronic Pain
Where the body pain lives in the brain
The evolutionary role of pain in life
The #1 thing that drives the Neuroplastic Pain network
How you can eliminate pain by changing various mind-brain pathways
The 3 habits that trigger fear and exacerbate pain
Evidence-based ways to treat Neuroplastic Pain
The problems that come from the brain’s misperception of threat to the body
Somatic Tracking
Ways to pay attention without fear
Corrective Experience
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)

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