I work with a lot of people with chronic symptoms and anxiety is one of the top things I see in many patients. What many people don’t realize is that anxiety alone can create physical symptoms in the body like pain, digestive issues, headaches, muscle aches, fatigue, etc. Anxiety works through the brain which then […]
Have you ever thought about doing the complete opposite of what you’ve been doing with your symptoms? We know fighting and resisting what we feel doesn’t really work. What we resist persists. The opposite of resisting is embracing- what we embrace we erase. This is reverse psychology, or what is called paradoxical intention in psychological […]
All pain is meant to protect us from something. It is always a protective response to try to help us as it thinks something is too dangerous or threatening. The definition of pain is that it is both a sensory (physical) and emotional experience. Once we’ve ruled out the physical side of protection, meaning acute […]
The body’s alarm system is your brain and nervous system. With chronic pain, the alarm system stays turned on or is easily triggered to turn on. The alarm system is trying to protect us and thinks there is danger or a threat at hand. But with chronic pain and many other chronic health conditions, it […]
This article really encapsulates many aspects of my mind-body treatment program for chronic pain and chronic health ailments. As Dr. Sarno states in his best selling books, we are talking about the subconscious mind here. The subconscious mind includes any thoughts, feelings, and tensions in your body that go underneath your conscious awareness. This includes […]
Not many people think of TMS- Too Much Stress as the culprit in their chronic health ailment. The medical establishment is too fixated on structural findings, which we know have poor correlations with pain. Here is a some scientific research showing the role Stress plays in 11 health different conditions. I see many of these […]
This article highlights what I have felt for a long while- the body knows what its doing so let it do it. In this case, researchers are finding out ice is not really helpful for injuries. In fact it may be doing more harm than good! The body does what it does to help us, […]
Getting moving is one of the best ways to deal with persistent pain or symptoms. Here I go over some interesting research about exercising and chronic pain. You may be surprised by the findings here- is marathon running bad for your knees like many people believe? Does exercising with pain make your situation worse or […]
Interoception does not refer to the game of NFL football (: It is the medical scientific term for “awareness of inner body sensations, involving the sensory process of receiving, accessing and appraising internal bodily signals.” Researchers have found many people with chronic pain have reduced interoceptive awareness. One of the goals of this work is […]
October 10th, 2019, SIRPA will be presenting a FREE online summit for chronic pain. There will be multiple speakers, including myself. We are all SIRPA practitioners helping people with chronic pain. If you would like to sign-up please follow the link below to join us. Thank You! SIRPA Online Summit
