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Learn more about chronic pain and treatment approaches through our curated list of informational resources

Newspaper Articles

  • Discover: Understanding That Chronic Back Pain Originates From Within The Brain, Could Lead To Quicker Recovery, A New Study Finds

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/understanding-that-chronic-back-pain-originates-from-within-the-brain-could

  • The New York Times: The Pain Brain

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/well/chronic-pain.html

  • The New York Times: I Have To Believe That This Book Cured My Brain

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/well/chronic-pain.html

  • The Washington Post: Chronic Pain Is Surprisingly Treatable-When Patients Focus On The Brain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/15/chronic-pain-brain-plasticity/

  • The New York Times: The Ezra Klein Show, This Book Changed The Relationship With My Brain

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/17eks-ezra-klein-podcast-rachel-zoffness.html

  • National Geographic: How You Think About Chronic Pain Can Make It Worse

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/how-you-think-about-physical-pain-can-make-it-worse

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Books

  • "Explain Pain" by Dr. David Butler, G. Lorimer Moseley 

  • "Unlearn Your Pain" by Howard Schubiner MD

  • "The Pain Management Workbook" by Rachel Zoffness 

  • "The Way Out" by Alan Gordon

  • "A Diagnostic Guide for Psychophysiologic Disorders" by  David Clarke MD, David Schechter MD, Howard Schubiner MD 

  • "Think Away Your Pain" by David Schechter MD

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  • Your Brain: Perception Deception - a FREE documentary exploring how our brain impacts our perception of reality. Click here to view 

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Podcasts

  • The Ezra Klein Show: This Book Changed My Relationship to Pain - interview with Rachel Zoffness

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-book-changed-my-relationship-to-pain/id1548604447?i=1000600805466​

  • The Curiosity Cure Mindbody Wellness Podcast: Season 2, Episode 29 - Petra's Pain Recovery Dream Life

https://the-curiosity-cure-mindbody-wellness.simplecast.com/episodes/s2e29-petras-pain-recovery-dream-life

  • Huberman Lab: Dr. Sean Mackey - Tools to Reduce & Manage Pain

https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-sean-mackey-tools-to-reduce-manage-pain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53LQqwyJp2E

  • Joh Loeser MD on why pain treatment “Must” be biopsychosocial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Syg4MUfK8

  • PBS, Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan, Dr. Rachel Zoffness

https://watch.ksmq.org/video/rachel-zoffness-1vq8xc/

  • Dorology (PAIN) with Dr. Rachel Zoffness on Alie Ward’s Ologies

https://www.alieward.com/ologies/dolorology

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Scientific Publications and Resources​

  • Reattribution to Mind-Brain Processes and Recovery From Chronic Back Pain: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2809959

  • Application of a Clinical Approach to Diagnosing Primary Pain: Prevalence and Correlates of Primary Back and Neck Pain in a Community Physiatry Clinic.

https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(23)00544-8/abstract

  • Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2784694

  • Shape shifting pain: chronification of back pain shifts brain representation from nociceptive to emotional circuits

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3754458/

  • Nociception, pain, negative moods and behavior selection

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4529956/

  • Assessment and manifestation of central sensitisation across different chronic pain conditions

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29105941/

  • Central sensitization: Implications for the diagnosis and treatment of pain

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3268359/

  • Nociplastic pain: towards an understanding of prevalent pain conditions

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34062144/

  • Pain Psychology: A Global Needs Assessment and National Call to Action

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4758272/

  • Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy Achieves Greater Pain Reduction than Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Older Adults with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Preliminary Randomized Comparison Trial

https://academic.oup.com/painmedicine/article/21/11/2811/5843881?login=false

  • Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy for Chronic Pain: Rationale, Principles and Techniques, Evidence, and Critical Review

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11926-019-0829-6

  • Psychophysiologic symptom relief therapy for chronic back pain: a pilot randomized controlled trial

https://journals.lww.com/painrpts/Fulltext/2021/09000/Psychophysiologic_symptom_relief_therapy_for.13.aspx

  • “I don't have chronic back pain anymore”: Patient Experiences in Pain Reprocessing Therapy for Chronic Back Pain

https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(23)00397-8/abstract (https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(23)00397-8/abstract)

Newspaper Articlees
Books
Films/Videos/Websites
Podcasts
Scientific Publications and Resources
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