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The Importance of Fear in Back Pain Treatment
The fear and preoccupation around the pain determines whether or not this danger signal stays activated or shuts off. So one of the things we want to do is target the whatever it is that the brain is perceiving as dangerous. And then we're trying to teach their brain that this thing that they learned was dangerous is actually safe. It's like nothing more than a barometer for how safe the primitive brain feels.