Shift focus to a state of lightness and safety to break the intensity of pain.
Engaging in humor and jokes reinforces the feeling of lightness and serves as a catalyst for enhancing mindfulness and creating a sense of safety.
Positive Affect Induction
Mindfulness
Focus on physical sensations without fear or judgment.
Mindfulness helps deactivate the brain’s fear circuits, increasing feelings of safety.
Use evidence-based affirmations to reinforce that the sensation is safe.
Statements like “This is temporary” and “The sensation is not an accurate reflection of tissue damage” can help.
Safety Reappraisal
How PRT Works
PRT has been helped individuals with:
- Reduce or eliminate chronic pain by changing how your brain perceives and processes pain signals. Understand the brain’s role in chronic pain. Become familiar with the signals of pain, depression, or anxiety as sensations, not threats to your overall well-being.
- Train the brain by leveraging the brain's capacity to learn and adapt, breaking the mistaken belief that you are in danger. Learn to reinterpret pain during physical activities previously avoided due to fear.
- Improve emotional well-being by addressing the psychological aspects of pain. Develop skills to manage emotions that can amplify pain perception.
- Emotional Regulation: Enhance quality of life by enabling you to engage in daily activities with less pain and more confidence.
- Chronic Back Pain
- Chronic Headaches
- Fibromyalgia
- Neuropathic Pain
- Chronic Pelvic Pain
- Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ)
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RPS)
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Post-Surgical Pain Syndromes
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- Lingering Pain Post Injury
Goals of PRT
What is Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)?
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a cutting-edge, evidence-based approach designed to treat chronic pain by retraining the brain. It operates on the premise that the brain can generate pain even without current injury, or after an injury has healed. PRT helps patients reduce the perceived threat of pain, making it less frightening and disruptive.
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