Emotions and Chronic Musculo-Skeletal Pain: A Novel Neuro-Psycho-Physiologic Treatment Model

With chronic pain increasing worldwide and traditional medical approaches often ineffective, neuroscience gives us new insights into how chronic pain can become a pattern as neurologic pathways develop in response to strong emotions. Investigations into chronic pain histories reveal how childhood stressors create emotional memories, that when triggered by similar events in adolescence/ adulthood, create pain and other symptoms. Learn how a randomized, month-long, controlled trial of therapeutic writing, mindfulness meditation, and exercises to reprogram pain pathways leads to significantly decreased symptoms of fibromyalgia.