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Pain neuroscience education
Pain is always real. A nervous system can stay alarmed after tissues have had time to heal. Learning that is not the same as being told the pain is imaginary.
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Learning how a real, alarmed nervous system can keep pain going after tissues have had time to heal.
See also the Back pain discovery hub.
Pain is always real. A nervous system can stay alarmed after tissues have had time to heal. Learning that is not the same as being told the pain is imaginary.
An emerging, clinician-led approach. You attend to pain sensations with less threat. Pain is treated as real. Medical evaluation comes first.
A clinician-led therapy that pairs pain education with guided work on unresolved stress, conflict, and hard emotions (often anger, grief, or fear) that can keep the pain system on alert. Two randomized trials (fibromyalgia; older veterans) show promising results, including some advantages over CBT. Emerging, not a cure, and not a claim that pain is imaginary.