Unlearn Your Pain
The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression
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Publisher Description
The groundbreaking guide to reversing chronic pain and overcoming anxiety and depression based on more than twenty years of life-saving research, clinical trials and practice.
'A revolutionary approach to understanding and resolving chronic pain and related conditions' – Dr Gabor Maté, bestselling author of The Myth of Normal
'Will change everything you thought you knew about chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety and depression' – Dr Rangan Chatterjee, bestselling author of Make Change That Lasts
For the past twenty years, Dr Howard Schubiner has been conducting clinical trials, writing more than 100 scientific papers and giving lectures to get to the root cause of chronic illnesses and find out how to reverse conditions including migraines, back pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue and more.
Unlearn Your Pain is the result of this work, revealing Dr Schubiner's life-changing programme to effectively treat chronic pain, anxiety and depression.
Drawing on the latest neuroplasticity research and the science behind the mind-body connection, step-by-step programme reveals:
How the mind affects pain and physical and emotional health The latest research and mind-body practices confirmed by clinical trials and studies How to take back control to live a pain-free life.
Written with compassion and grounded in science, Unlearn Your Pain provides an accessible framework for understanding the mind-body connection and taking practical steps towards lasting relief from chronic pain and illness.
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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.
