The Way Out: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Heal Chronic Pain

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With straightforward and practical wisdom, The Way Out presents a sophisticated yet simple approach to understanding and healing chronic pain-an approach grounded in advanced science and proven clinical experience. Psychotherapist Alan Gordon was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed his life.

Gordon and Ziv argue that it is not a mere pipe dream for billions of sufferers across the globe to rid themselves from the vice like grip of chronic pain. Alan Gordon’s insights into somatic tracking offer a fresh perspective, suggesting that perhaps the key isn’t just to silence the pain but to attentively and non-judgmentally understand its tune.

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Diagnostiziert wurde ein 1,4cm großer Bandscheibenvorfall, der aber erstaunlicherweise laut Ärzten nicht für die Symptome verantwortlich sein konnte. While we cannot currently cure all of those symptoms, we can work on reducing the fears around them. In one of their younger patients, whom they saw weekly, a total transformation occurred within 3 months.

It's a gradual but steady process, but I feel increasingly confident that I will eventually be completely pain free. As someone who has been dealing with TMS (mind-body) symptoms for the better part of the last year, I was both excited and kind of nervous about reading this book. It gave me simple tools to get me through the difficult process of stopping medication, which had been exacerbating my pain for years.however, when the pain comes now, I am using the techniques from the book to minimize the pain, and it’s absolutely working.

If you have mind-body symptoms, you have probably tried just about EVERYTHING to rid yourself of them, and if you are like me, you have struggled to make sense of what's going on or make progress. It’s got a lot of science in it about how legit pain from injury gets stuck inside our bodies and the brain adapts by continuing to send painful signals of pain even once the injury is gone. The only topic I wish the authors had touched on is the difficulty feeling safe when current events/economic, social and political climates weigh heavily: a pandemic, cost of living, instability in work and housing etc. Scans showed nothing wrong- no brain lesions or tumors, no inflamed blood vessels, no swollen sinuses, no pinched nerves. A combination of mindfulness and therapy, somatic tracking imbibes the philosophy popularized by Jon Kabat-Zinn, who helped popularize mindfulness in the West.

I put my name down for a 50 mile road march, my squadron was putting in a team and planning training sessions. I recently started seeing a therapist who specializes in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and she recommended this book to me as an overview of the technique. Heard about the author because of an article in the Washington Post about the Pain Psychology Center and their ways of treating chronic pain. This book gives hope in that it provides the tools that anyone can apply to address those internalised worries, pressure and criticism, and may ultimately lead to healing. It was tough going, my body wasn’t used to that kind of distance, my blisters had blisters, two of my toes nails fell off and for 3 days afterwards I couldn’t climb the stairs.

By a gradually increased exposure to different types of exercise, I have had some corrective experiences that showed me that there are certain things I can already do again without crashing, reducing my fear of trying to do more again. This book was so much fun to read that I can see myself re-reading this in the future, when I need a reminder. I started having debilitating migraines about 4-5 days per month in 2019, so I sought medical attention. Alan Gordon summarises our current understanding of neuroplasticity and how each and every one of us can apply that, and in my mind the scope goes much beyond chronic pain.

In a ground-breaking study, PRT helped 98% of patients reduce their pain levels and 66% were completely cured. PRT is rooted in neuroscience, which has shown that while chronic pain feels like it's coming from the body, in most cases it's generated by misfiring pain circuits in the brain. Ab und zu spüre ich noch etwas Spannung im Rücken aber durch die Tools, die im Buch erklärt werden, habe ich endlich das Gefühl es im Griff zu bekommen. And yet future doctors are spending less time than that studying something that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide!