S6 E2 | Is Neuroplastic Healing Backed By Science?

and you probably are too okay like that's probably both of us so like yeah i just i want to validate myself that like if i'm angry that's cool if you're angry that's cool um so yeah like i'm saying if you're cool with a dose of that energy today listen on okay number one The Boulder Back Pain Study.

You all knew it was coming.

It's the most cited study in this field since it came out.

The Boulder Back Pain Study was published in JAMA Psychiatry in 2021.

The authors on that are Yoni Ashar, Alan Gordon, and Howard Schubiner.

Okay, from the study.

Question, can a psychological treatment based on the reappraisal of primary chronic back pain as due to non-dangerous central nervous system processes provide substantial and durable pain relief? Great question.

That is a very fancy, heady, scientific way of saying, do neuroplastic recovery therapies work, or does TMS therapy work, or do emotional and psychological modalities really heal chronic pain this one honestly that's i i would say do psychological modalities really heal chronic pain because they didn't test the emotional stuff as part of the prt study that was on the psychological side we all know you got to do both You know, if you wanna heal, you really gotta do both.

But, well, some people maybe only need one, but most people need both.

All right, findings of the Boulder Back Pain Study.

In this randomized clinical trial, 33 of 50 participants, that's 66%, randomized to four weeks of pain reprocessing therapy were pain-free or nearly pain-free at post-treatment.

That's a really good result.

Right? So does this work? Yeah, that works pretty well.

I would say that is pretty good.

And I'm four weeks is nothing.

I'm like, how did they get such good results? I am When I found this, I was not pain free or nearly pain free in four weeks.

My God.

Um, you know, I would not have been one of the 66% that said, this is the way, and this has been the solution for me.

And it is the solution.

It is, it just is the solution for, I mean, anyone who has TMS or a neuroplastic condition, this, this is it, this is the way forward.

But okay.

66% were pain-free or nearly pain, nearly pain-free at post treatment.

Okay.

Um, there were 20% of people randomized to a placebo group and there were 10%, uh, uh, of the participants were randomized to usual care, just, you know, told to continue whatever they were doing for their back pain.

Uh, those people did not, uh, improve significantly.

and you probably are too okay like that's probably both of us so like yeah i just i want to validate myself that like if i'm angry that's cool if you're angry that's cool um so yeah like i'm saying if you're cool with a dose of that energy today listen on okay number one The Boulder Back Pain Study.

You all knew it was coming.

It's the most cited study in this field since it came out.

The Boulder Back Pain Study was published in JAMA Psychiatry in 2021.

The authors on that are Yoni Ashar, Alan Gordon, and Howard Schubiner.

Okay, from the study.

Question, can a psychological treatment based on the reappraisal of primary chronic back pain as due to non-dangerous central nervous system processes provide substantial and durable pain relief? Great question.

That is a very fancy, heady, scientific way of saying, do neuroplastic recovery therapies work, or does TMS therapy work, or do emotional and psychological modalities really heal chronic pain this one honestly that's i i would say do psychological modalities really heal chronic pain because they didn't test the emotional stuff as part of the prt study that was on the psychological side we all know you got to do both You know, if you wanna heal, you really gotta do both.

But, well, some people maybe only need one, but most people need both.

All right, findings of the Boulder Back Pain Study.

In this randomized clinical trial, 33 of 50 participants, that's 66%, randomized to four weeks of pain reprocessing therapy were pain-free or nearly pain-free at post-treatment.

That's a really good result.

Right? So does this work? Yeah, that works pretty well.

I would say that is pretty good.

And I'm four weeks is nothing.

I'm like, how did they get such good results? I am When I found this, I was not pain free or nearly pain free in four weeks.

My God.

Um, you know, I would not have been one of the 66% that said, this is the way, and this has been the solution for me.

And it is the solution.

It is, it just is the solution for, I mean, anyone who has TMS or a neuroplastic condition, this, this is it, this is the way forward.

But okay.

66% were pain-free or nearly pain, nearly pain-free at post treatment.

Okay.

Um, there were 20% of people randomized to a placebo group and there were 10%, uh, uh, of the participants were randomized to usual care, just, you know, told to continue whatever they were doing for their back pain.

Uh, those people did not, uh, improve significantly.