Pain reprocessing therapy and somatic tracking
An emerging, clinician-led approach. You attend to pain sensations with less threat. Pain is treated as real. Medical evaluation comes first.
Somatic tracking, as taught in this approach, is a guided way of noticing pain sensations with curiosity and safety rather than with panic. The therapist helps you see that some pain can be a false alarm from a nervous system that has stayed on high alert after tissues have had time to heal.
That sentence can be twisted into cruelty. Do not let it be. If a disc, joint, nerve, or disease is still an active medical problem, that problem still deserves care. PRT is one option for a specific pattern of persistent pain, offered after evaluation, by a person who will not shame you.
How to
- Get medical evaluation before anyone calls the pain “neuroplastic.”
- A trained clinician teaches short periods of noticing the sensation with a “this can be safe” frame.
- You do not talk yourself into believing the pain is fake.
Do not start this from a video in place of care. Anyone who says “it is all in your head” has left the method.
A helpful book
Workbook: The Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook (Blackstone & Sinaiko). Use it after medical evaluation and ideally with a trained PRT clinician. Pain is real. This is not 'all in your head.'
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