On-demand masterclass
Dr. Howard Schubiner
Reverse chronic pain : Unlock neuroscience insights and master practical, effective therapies with a leading expert who has helped thousands of people unlearn their pain.
Teacher
You will learn from Dr. Howard Schubiner, who was included in the 2003-2004, 2005-2006 and 2007 lists of the Best Doctors in America. He has authored over 60 publications in scientific journals and books and is the founder of the Mind-Body Medicine Program at Providence Hospital. He has created a program that uses cutting-edge psychological techniques that have had a profound impact on the practice of countless doctors and clinicians, not to mention patients with chronic pain.
Having tried numerous treatments with little success, you are eager for solutions that address pain beyond mere management—seeking a path to live pain-free and understanding the role of stress in your susceptibility to chronic conditions.
You frequently encounter patients with chronic pain and seek advanced, non-invasive, and non-medication-based treatment options to enhance patient care.
You specialize in pain management, you are frustrated with traditional models of pain management, or you are simply searching for innovative strategies.
Recognizing that pain is both a physical and psychological issue, you seek new therapeutic tools to bridge this gap for your clients.
Many of your clients suffer from chronic pain or conditions, and you’re looking to deepen your psychological, theoretical, and practical understanding of chronic pain to enhance your Feldenkrais practice.
Although well-versed in the implications of pain, you need effective methods to reverse its effects when it becomes chronic.
You are keen to understand pain, or seeking to master techniques that enhance life quality through scientific and practical approaches.
Committed to enhancing your clients’ overall well-being, you need science-based techniques to effectively address the chronic pain many of your clients experience.
Preparing for a healthcare career, you are especially interested in specializing in chronic pain management and wish to integrate the newest practices into your future work.
It's crucial to understand but also learn to explain how the brain generates pain and how neuroplasticity can be a double-edged sword in the case of chronic pain.
You will learn to: - Describe the role of the brain in chronic pain; - Describe which disorders are clearly caused by neural circuit disorders, and which are caused by structural disorders; - Perform neural circuit testing in the assessment of chronic pain; - Explain neural circuit disorders to patients and clients in a clear and compassionate manner; - Refer patients to appropriate resources in the treatment of chronic pain; - Initiate treatment using pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) and emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET).
In the first part of the training, you’ll focus on neuroscience and the nature of pain, learning all about predictive processing, and how to explain neural circuit disorders to patients and clients in a clear, and compassionate manner. In the second part, you’ll learn about diagnosis and assessment. We’ll demonstrate, and you will practice how to asses different kinds of chronic pains, and when to apply the therapies taught in this course. In the third part, you’ll learn about pain reprocessing therapy: how to rewire the neural circuits in the brain by helping people manage their fear, including practices such as performing provocative testing and graded exposure. In the fourth and fifth parts, you’ll learn about emotional awareness and expression therapy, the nature of emotions, their relationship with pain, and how to help people cope with emotional issues.
There are no prerequisites for this course. The course is tailored for therapists, clinicians, and practitioners in direct contact with clients/patients with chronic conditions, however, you can still follow the course if you are simply interested in knowing more about the neuroscience of pain and therapies for chronic pain.
The course was originally taught in English but it is also subtitled and translated in French. We are hoping to translate the course into other languages in the future.
You may take the course at your own pace. There are a total of 12 hours of video content, but we encourage you to take the time to go through the practice with a partner. The course was taught over 5 days, so if you're efficient you can do it in one week. It's also a great resource to come back to. There's a lot of content covered, so you may want to return several times to revisit what you've learned.
Learn about the nature of emotions, their relationship with pain, and how to help people cope with emotional issues (anger, guilt and sadness…)
Learn how to identify the hurtful situations, revisit past traumatic experiences with compassion, express and release anger, and move toward healing and repair.
To help bridge theory and practice, showing how concepts work in real-life situations and deepening understanding through concrete examples.
Guidelines provided to help you get started with practising. Ideas and tools on how to explain pain & mind-body connection to clients. Find a partner or a friend and try it out.
A number of additional resources and further readings to support your learning.
Understand the possible psychosomatic origins of pain and clearly distinguish between neural circuit disorders and structural disorders.
Assess whether a condition is perpetuated by maladaptive neural circuits and perform neural circuit testing to show that neural pathways can be turned on or off.
By implementing clear and compassionate methods to understand neural circuit disorders, you’ll provide a compelling and clear explanation of these conditions. This foundational knowledge is the first step toward a better life.
The course offers you training in science-based therapies like Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET).
