The Way Out: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Heal Chronic Pain

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In a world where chronic pain often plays a haunting refrain, the idea of neuroplastic reprogramming sounds like a symphony of hope. She asked me cover my eyes whilst she touched my legs with a cotton wool ball or poked me with a cocktail stick. In this section, you’ll find advice, reviews, recommendations and insights for helping to find balance, especially between physical and mental health. I kept thinking, if the pain could be switched on such as it was, then surely there must be a way to switch it off again.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It's a quick read, contains numerous studies and scientific information, and humor is interspersed throughout since Gordon did have a brief stint in comedy. As someone who has been dealing with TMS (mind-body) symptoms for the better part of the last year, I was both excited and kind of nervous about reading this book. Gordon is so talented at communicating in a gentle, humorous way to deactivate your high alert and hyper vigilant brain. Does your pain consume your thoughts- when you feel a twinge of pain, do you obsess over whether or not it's going to get worse?

It's already a pretty short book at 150 pages but its significant content could have been effectively reduced to a 15-page pamphlet. It taught me that fearing my pain and my corresponding hyper vigilance was creating an unending cycle of intense, REAL PAIN that my brain was accustomed to producing. But Gordon and Ziv warn their readers to be prepared for the occasional ‘relapse’ of a neuroplastic pain episode.

That's the program (w/a lot of fluffery in between pages, w/his many anecdotal sidebars about people he's helped).I found this is helpful because elements of their experience mirror my own and I have some of the same queries and reactions.

The University of Colorado-Boulder recently conducted a large randomized controlled study on PRT, and the results are remarkable. The authors explain the pain-fear cycle and how it’s possible to break that and create new connections in the brain. But pain that persists after an injury has healed, or pain that has no clear physical cause, is usually neuroplastic pain. I hope that anyone else in my situation finds this book and rids themselves from the prison that is chronic pain. Alon Ziv has a degree in neuroscience and was awarded the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching in Biology from UCLA.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. With the backdrop of a society grappling with long covid symptoms and the inherent fears they bring, this approach seems like a daring dance, challenging both the brain’s pathways and societal perceptions, but one that promises a more harmonious future. Of all the stories, studies, and statistics that I’ve presented in this book, this is the most mind-boggling. I was in and out of the ER with facial and head pain that started during the run and would not subside.