Entries by The Pain PT

What Emotion Are You Feeling Now?

Emotions are undercurrents running in our bodies. Many times emotions sit underneath thoughts, physical symptoms, behaviors and actions. Research indicates we are feeling at least one emotion 90% of the time during the day. Some research also shows many people (upwards of 50%) with chronic pain and other medically unexplained physical symptoms have what’s called […]

The Cause of Physical Symptoms: Brain or Body?

So important to distinguish the cause of physical symptoms in the body. What many people don’t realize and I didn’t either until I started specializing in this field, is that the brain itself can produce the very same symptoms the body can produce. We have to look at a person’s full history to understand where […]

Mind-Body Medicine from a Physician’s Perspective

I spoke with Dr. Rebecca Kennedy about her transition from traditional primary care to the mind-body practice she runs today. Slowly, gradually, the medical world is starting to wake up to the mind-body connection and the role the brain, stress, emotions, and trauma play in the production and persistence of somatic symptoms.  I hope you […]

Embrace to Erase instead of Resist to Persist

I shared a few videos about this concept which you can check out below. It’s true what we resist will persist and what we can embrace we can erase. Especially when it comes to emotions. And emotions are one of the main causes of unexplained medical symptoms in the body. The key thing to being […]

What’s your Diagnoses?

Check out this video to understand that your diagnoses may not be chronic fatigue, migraines, IBS, or chronic pain, or any other medical diagnoses. It may be one or both of these official diagnoses I lay out here. How many of your health practitioners have given you either of these diagnoses? My guess is not […]

Fear and Attention Contribute to Chronic Pain- How to Change That

Today I review a 2021 research paper (link here to paper) which shows how your attention is associated with fear conditioning and then chronic pain. Attention is one of the 4 categories I address with people suffering from chronic somatic symptoms. I call the 4 categories  B-E-A-T which relates to your behaviors, emotions, attention, and […]

Your brain may be producing your pain (symptoms)

Your brain is the most powerful and complex organ in the body. Yet it is the one area we don’t even scan or is talked about when people go to a doctor for many medical issues (outside of hitting your head or having a stroke for example). Our medical system is great about ruling out […]