What is CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome)? CRPS is a debilitating post-traumatic pain disorder that usually develops in a limb, often after an injury, a surgery, a stroke or a heart attack, but then spreads to other areas. The pain is out of proportion to the severity of the initial injury and is known to…
If you suffer from persistent pain or chronic symptoms, you’ve probably heard of a new intervention called Somatic Tracking. But what is it exactly? And is it worth trying? Is it possible to ‘train your brain’ out of chronic pain? That’s the aim of Somatic Tracking and it’s the key technique from Pain Reprocessing Therapy….
What is Pain Reprocessing Therapy? Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a relatively new psychological treatment that offers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help people overcome chronic pain or symptoms by retraining the brain’s response to pain signals. We now know that most chronic pain is neuroplastic in nature—that it is caused by learned neural pathways…
Pain Is A Protector Pain is a danger signal⚡. It protects us from further damage—to make us remove our hand from something hot, to stop us walking on an injured ankle, to make sure we take time to let injuries heal. The latest research shows that most forms of chronic pain don’t stem from physical…