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Leading doctor's 2023 study changes everything about chronic pain
Chronic pain and symptoms aren’t always caused by damage in your body.
Chronic pain and symptoms aren’t always caused by damage in your body.
They’re caused by a glitch in your brain’s prediction system.
In fact, one of the leading doctors in this field, Dr. Howard Schubiner published a study in 2023 showing that nearly 9 out of 10 people with chronic back or neck pain were actually experiencing brain-driven pain…
…Not damage in their spine (even though their scans showed ‘problems’).
Let me explain…
The brain is a prediction machine, and when it gets stuck predicting pain or danger, it keeps creating those symptoms on repeat.
But because of neuroplasticity…
You can retrain your brain to stop predicting pain and start predicting safety (reversing symptoms at the source).
Here’s an example:
Person A: Has an MRI that shows bulging discs in their lower spine.
But they feel no pain at all.
Person A lives a normal life, exercises, goes hiking, and plays with their kids.
Person B: Has the same MRI results.
But this person is in crippling pain every day.
They struggle to sit through a work meeting or walk to the mailbox.
If the discs and arthritis were truly the cause, both people would be in the same amount of pain.
But they’re not.
Why?
Because the brain is the deciding factor.
As Dr. Schubiner’s 2023 study proved, nearly 85% of chronic back and neck pain is “primary pain” which means brain induced…
In other words, the pain is generated by the brain’s danger alarm system, not by structural damage.
This is the same reason my own MRIs came back normal…
But I lived in agony for years. My brain was stuck predicting danger and producing pain signals long after my injury had healed.
So here’s the good news…
Because of the recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, the same system that learned pain can also unlearn it. Research shows that therapies targeting this mechanism can help as many as 90% of people become pain free or nearly pain-free in just 30 days.
Results that are permanent.
Here’s why this is so important:
We live in a world where the medical establishment provides medications, injections, and even surgeries to “fix” pain that often has nothing to do with damage in the body.
That’s why so many people spend years (and thousands of dollars) chasing solutions that don’t work.
Millions of people suffer from one chronic condition.
The Brain Based Healing course could make sure you’re no longer one of them.
To your success & joy,
— Kimia