Pain Reprocessing Therapy
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a treatment rooted in neuroscience, is providing hope to individuals suffering from chronic neuroplastic pain—pain in the absence of an injury or that persists long after an injury has healed. PRT teaches patients to unlearn their chronic pain by reconceptualizing it as a brain-generated false alarm. Psychotherapist Alan Gordon , PRT pioneer and director of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles, and neuroscientist Alon Ziv explain the ins and outs of PRT in their book, The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain. Gordon shares his own story of overcoming chronic back pain on episode 47 of Dr. Joe Tattta’s Healing Pain podcast . How does Pain Reprocessing Therapy work? PRT utilizes somatic tracking which teaches the brain to reinterpret signals from the body. Gordon and Ziv describe somatic tracking as way to “flip...