Free Pain Webinar

When: Jun 7, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) 

Topic: Trauma and Chronic Pain:  A new way of understanding; a new way of treating

 Understanding and treatment of chronic pain is an evolving process incorporating a growing list of causal factors including physical injury, psychological factors (‘catastrophizing’ and ‘pain behaviors’) and genetic predisposition. Since the turn of the 21st century, two major new developments in the treatment of pain are recognition of the role of traumatic stress as a predisposing factor and stress-related changes in brain functioning (central sensitization). Early life stress is now known to cause a range of physical, emotional and neurological changes that predispose survivors to disease and pain, a phenomena trauma experts refer to as ‘the body remembers.’ New trauma therapies such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) have stimulated new ways of treating chronic pain. The aim is to change the way the brain remembers pain, by reprogramming the neurobiological processes responsible for sensory-emotional aspects of chronic pain. Many experts believe EMDR targets brain functioning more directly than traditional approaches, leading to its ability to stimulate long-term physiological (rather than just mental) changes. The method has also stimulated innovative self-help strategies for managing and even changing pain. In this seminar EMDR and pain expert Mark Grant MA will describe how the effects of traumatic stress maintain pain; why its hardly ever talked about; how your brain receives and transmits pain and show you 5 innovative brain-based strategies for how to change your brain change your pain (hint: not meditation, not exercise, not changing your thoughts.)

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