Re:Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for ...
by jfengel on Saturday November 27, 2021 @08:38AM
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The brain is involved in all pain. The fact that the brain can help fix it doesn't mean it's psychosomatic. It just means you can interrupt the process at some place other than where the damage is.
Chronic pain is aggravatingly hard to trace to the source. Maybe it's psychosomatic, maybe it's not. Calling it psychosomatic causes stigma -- it implies that it's fake and their choice. But they do want to get better.
It's more than just thinking yourself healthy. It requires some counterintuitive ways to create new pathways. It's great that there is more research showing an improved way.
Chronic pain is aggravatingly hard to trace to the source. Maybe it's psychosomatic, maybe it's not. Calling it psychosomatic causes stigma -- it implies that it's fake and their choice. But they do want to get better.
It's more than just thinking yourself healthy. It requires some counterintuitive ways to create new pathways. It's great that there is more research showing an improved way.