A Deeper Dive

Pain Recovery Versus Pain Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2022 Trauma-Informed Pain Recovery Versus Pain Management Bennet E. Davis, MD Within our medical profession, there is a...

Amazing Back Pain Study

Great news for back pain sufferers. A study by the University of Colorado, Boulder, has found that 98% of patients with chronic back pain...

Degenerative Disc Disease Isn't a Disease

“You have degenerative disc disease.” I regularly saw patients who’d been told that they had “arthritis, bulging discs, herniated discs,...

Fear-Avoidance Of Pain

There’s a divide between chronic pain experts and their patients that rarely gets crossed. The divide centers on the issue of...

Neuroplasticity And The Brain

Brain Neuroplasticity Neuroplasticity can lead to positive and negative changes within our brain. If we want to learn to be more...

How Pain Becomes Chronic

But how does the pain become chronic? Although emotional repression or unacknowledged stress may be sources/triggers of pain,...

How The Pain Cycle Is Created

Early childhood trauma, recurrent adult traumas and/or current stressors trigger a danger response in the brain’s amygdala. This...

The Body Is Not The Cause

The Body Is Not the Culprit It’s simply intuitive to conclude that if you have chronic pain, there must be something wrong with your...

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