{"id":192,"date":"2017-04-19T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T23:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/activelifescientific.org\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T23:21:05","slug":"generally-useful-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hansmalab.physics.ucsb.edu\/?page_id=192","title":{"rendered":"Generally useful Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lorimer Moseley M.D. Body in mind – the role of the brain in chronic pain<\/a>. This YouTube video has a great story about how meaning affects the experience of pain starting at 2:00, but I recommend watching the whole thing for some of the first research studies that are relevant to retraining the brain.<\/p>\n

Daniel J. Clauw M.D. Chronic Pain \u2013 Is it All in Their Head<\/a>?\u00a0 Wonderful YouTube video about the downward spiral of pain\/(inactivity, lack of sleep, stress) and its reversal starting 1:14 after a great discussion about the differences between chronic \u201cbrain pain\u201d and acute (nociceptive) pain.<\/p>\n

www.painrelievers.org<\/a>\u00a0 is a wonderful website by a local psychologist, Dr. Ken Pfeiffer, who cured his own debilitating back pain using brain retraining techniques that he shares on the website.\u00a0 Not only is the material on the website wonderful, but he writes: Please feel free to email me regarding anything on this website.\u00a0 Questions, comments, feedback, all are welcome. I always answer your questions promptly.<\/em><\/p>\n

All Care Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice has a comprehensive web document on the modern theory of pain.\u00a0 allcare.org\/CancerPain-and-SymptomManagement\/comfort\/cfm2\/cfm2_cont.htm#5e<\/a><\/p>\n

Professional help<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can find a practioner directory for experts in the Sarno method on this website: tmswiki.org\/ppd\/An_Introduction_to_Tension_Myositis_Syndrome_(TMS)<\/a><\/p>\n

Though there are lots of professionals in the Santa Barbara that will prescribe pain killers and perform physical procedures such as implanting stimulators and infusion devices, the only two professionals that I have been able to find, so far, that can help with retraining the brain are:<\/p>\n

1) Ken Pfeiffer, PhD. ken@painrelievers.org<\/a>\u00a0 He is author of the wonderful website on chronic pain, www.painrelievers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0 Susan Farber, MFT, 22 W. Micheltorena St. Suite B (805) 886-5538 and 240 East Highway 246 Suite 210 Buellton, CA 93427<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.susanfarbermft.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

If you find someone else, please let me know so I can add them to this evolving document.<\/p>\n

Final remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone I have met with chronic pain believes that their pain is due to a problem in the body.\u00a0 But there is no way of knowing if this is the case because of sensitization.\u00a0 And as long as the focus of therapy is on the \u201cproblem in the body\u201d, recovery is hopeless because of sensitization.<\/p>\n

For all but one person whom I have met that has reduced sensitization, it has turned out that there was no significant underlying body problem anymore. Their bodies had healed, but the pain had continued due to sensitization in the same or nearby location to where it had begun, leading to the confusion.\u00a0 This includes cases of diagnosed long term chronic pain from shingles, from sciatica, from bursitis, and from a galaxy of \u201cabnormalities\u201d seen in X-rays, especially of the lower back.\u00a0 The one exception was from diabetic neuropathy.<\/p>\n

Once you have retrained your brain to return your sensitization to normal, your chronic pain will be gone or greatly reduced.\u00a0 Any remaining signals coming from the body, such as from an incurable disease like diabetic neuropathy, can then be dealt with by retraining your brain to make better choices about what is in your conscious awareness (distraction) and by reducing the unpleasantness associated with the signals coming from the body with meditation and with affirmations.\u00a0 A very useful affirmation is: \u201cI feel that.\u00a0 It\u2019s of no importance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lorimer Moseley M.D. Body in mind – the role of the brain in chronic pain. This YouTube video has a great story about how meaning affects the experience of pain starting at 2:00, but I recommend watching the whole thing for some of the first research studies that are relevant to retraining the brain. Daniel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansmalab.physics.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansmalab.physics.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansmalab.physics.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansmalab.physics.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansmalab.physics.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hansmalab.physics.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansmalab.physics.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}