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Pain Reprocessing Therapy to help and even eliminate chronic pain
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Aug 3 8:47am | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
Hi there @menetski4. Thanks for sharing the podcast on reprocessing therapy. I think it's wonderful that you are having success and not only talking about chronic pain management ideas but implementing them.
Dr. Sarno lines up with the overall belief system that Mayo's Dr. Sletten and Pain Rehab Center team teaches. The brain - our computer, our command center, is one of our biggest tools. My personal experience going through Mayo's PRC program was incredible in understanding ways to help reduce pain, manage it and accept it. I believe it's important to know that chronic pain may never leave but certainly is able to lessen and in a lucky case perhaps dissipate.
Here's a peek at the concepts of the PRC program and Dr. Sletten's approach (in case you've not already seen):
I think it's awesome that you want to shout from the rooftops your experience with pain reprocessing therapy... please do! Tell us more. How exactly did you begin the process? How long did it take to feel benefits? What does a day in the life of managing your pain and symptoms look like?
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Rachel, there is a comment later in this thread (terry 1976) that you may have info for. Is Mayo's Dr. Sletten and Pain Rehab Center program covered by insurance? Can it be conducted virtually/telemedicine?
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Thanks for the info, Rachel. I did not know that Mayo Clinic was offered this therapy. It is wonderful to know there is a center to refer people.
I have been able to accomplish this therapy on my own with the help of Dr Sarno’s books, listening to a lot of podcasts. Plus, I am a retired RN and a Functional Medicine Health Coach. So I understand the power of neuro plasticity and reframing neuro pathways. A technique that I developed for myself is that I have named the pain wherever it occurs in my body. I call her “Trixie”. Every so often Trixie gets out of the barn (my brain) and starts stirring up a ruckus causing pain in my body. I don’t treat Trixie with disdain. Instead I acknowledge her by name, because no one likes to be ignored. I coax her back in the barn with some deep breathing. Follow with thoughts of gratitude and affirmation and ‘voila’ the pain is gone. Sounds crazy but it works for me after years of chronic pain.
I have also had headaches for a 30+ years. I don’t say I am a ‘headache sufferer’ because that is such a victim mentality. I name headache pain “Pixie” and with the same technique I have been able to get her to stop stomping around and abort the headache in the aura phase. I will have to medicate if the headache gets too bad, but I have cut my usage of medication more than half. I’m still working on it.
I am glad to see that Mayo Clinic promotes; movement (exercise), nutrition, sleep, stress management, and useful purposement in their therapy. These are the foundational principles of Functional Medicine. Without them the therapy is a little harder, but not impossible.
By the way, my brother named his chronic pain “Mr. Pain”. My husband named his recurrent pain “Volver”. Both have eliminated their long-standing pain.