Based on the premise that pain starts in the brain not the body, Gordon’s Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) enables you to rewire your neural circuits and turn off 'stuck' pain signals . 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. It’s not a huge amount of new info for me, but it is written in such a wonderful way, that I feel like I have learned so much. Well meaning doctors may have scared you, or confused you, or you may have become somewhat of a doctor yourself via google - and in the end turned into a scared, in pain mess, who is now wondering if you will be able to get out of this. Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv in their compelling book “Way Out”, introduce the concept of Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a radical approach to eliminating chronic pain instead of just managing the discomfiture by taking recourse to conventional remedies such as surgeries, physiotherapy and opioids intake.

It was tough going, my body wasn’t used to that kind of distance, my blisters had blisters, two of my toes nails fell off and for 3 days afterwards I couldn’t climb the stairs. By a gradually increased exposure to different types of exercise, I have had some corrective experiences that showed me that there are certain things I can already do again without crashing, reducing my fear of trying to do more again. The author states that chronic pain is real, but "the pain is due to your brain making a mistake and. If you’re new to the ideas of the mind body connection and neuroplastic pain, which book is a great starting point.I do believe that changing your habits of thinking, feeling and behaving CAN re-wire your brain and reduce your fear and pain - but there are millions of us (including me) who have a chronic physical condition that is causing our pain.

As I read in another's accurate review, this book could have, and indeed should have, been a pamphlet advertising his services.I know a fair amount about the science of pain and neuroplastic pain, and have quite a few techniques which I use for helping me on this journey (Curable, JournalSpeak as pioneered by Nicole Sachs, meditation etc), but I have still gotten so so much out of this book. In one of their younger patients, whom they saw weekly, a total transformation occurred within 3 months.

Accepting that it's the confused and overprotective brain amounts to revealing that neuroplastic pain is really a little man pulling levers and pushing buttons, making you think he's something he's not. This is a result, they aver of wafting back into bad habits induced by a sense of complacency and over confidence.

Alon Ziv has a degree in neuroscience and was awarded the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching in Biology from UCLA. million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Ab und zu spüre ich noch etwas Spannung im Rücken aber durch die Tools, die im Buch erklärt werden, habe ich endlich das Gefühl es im Griff zu bekommen.