Unlearn Your Pain
The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression
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Publisher Description
Based on more than twenty years of clinical trials and practice, Unlearn Your Pain is a groundbreaking guide to reversing chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression.
AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER
Migraines, headaches, back pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, and a host of other chronic illnesses have caused hardship worldwide. For the past twenty years, Dr. Howard Schubiner has conducted clinical trials and authored more than 100 scientific papers to uncover the root cause of these in challenging illnesses. In Unlearn Your Pain, he shares in inspiring and step-by-step detail the program that has proven to be effective in reversing chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression. For most people, the answers lie in the science of neuroplasticity, and this book details a revolutionary program that has saved thousands from a lifetime of misery and depression.
Using the latest research and mind-body practices all confirmed by clinical trials and studies, Dr. Schubiner leads readers to a new understanding of how the mind affects pain and physical and emotional health, and how we can live healthier and better lives.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Schubiner (Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression Workbook), an internist and clinical professor at Michigan State University, delivers an illuminating guide to addressing chronic conditions through practices that recognize the link between mind and body. He posits that in many cases of back pain, migraines, anxiety, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, long Covid, and more, the problem is the brain overreacting to inputs. Traditional medicine teaches that pain is caused by physical damage to the body, and that medication should be prescribed to alleviate symptoms. But for "neuroplastic" or "brain-generated" disorders, prescriptions and surgeries do not end the pain. Schubiner's solution is to put patients through a comprehensive evaluation that takes into consideration past trauma to determine if symptoms are neuroplastic (signs of neuroplasticity include symptoms that turn on and off and change with innocuous stimuli). He encourages therapy, which can rewire the brain, and mindfulness practices, like breathing exercises, that can start patients on the path to healing. Combining moving patient stories and extensive research, this will transform readers' understanding of the origin of pain.
