Transforming Pain Management: Pain Reprocessing Therapy with Howard Schubiner

Published 2024-03-10
Dr. Howard Schubiner discusses the link between childhood trauma and pain, as well as the brain's role in creating pain. He highlights the challenges in training healthcare professionals to understand and address mind-body pain. Dr. Schubiner introduces the symptom perception model and explains the process of pain reprocessing therapy. He emphasizes the importance of ruling out structural problems and using the FIT criteria to determine if the pain is functional, inconsistent, and triggered. This conversation explores the revolutionary data on non-structural pain and the importance of transitioning to understanding the emotional piece of chronic pain. It delves into the role of emotional awareness and expression in pain management and the challenges clinicians face in incorporating a mind-body approach. The conversation also highlights the healthcare system challenges and available resources for clinicians and patients. Finally, it discusses the future of mind-body approaches and training opportunities.

**TIMESTAMPS**
00:00 - Start
03:24 - How did Howard get to his current focus?
08:54 - Challenges we face in education of healthcare professionals
16:34 - Do clinicians need to go through a journey before they can adopt this type of approach?
18:47 - Are we overdiagnosing structural causes of pain?
31:01 - How does Howard's approach manage the emotional components of pain?
38:00 - Any concerns of crossing professional lines into psychology ?
41:06 - Barriers to utlizing this type of approach
44:04 - The struggle healthcare professionals have to make the transition to BPS practice
45:22 - Where can people seek training?

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All Comments (6)
  • Eloquent articulate young man with a timely message. Very nice. Thank you!
  • @Hinz2005
    Absolutely wonderful. Dr. Schubiner is so approachable and explains these concepts so well. He has been kind enough to email with me. He truly cares and wants people to succeed.
  • The background music is a little off putting but i persevered and really appreciated the input. I am trying to find a way to treat my chronic pain and this sounds very interesting and realistic..
  • Our health care system is so F ed up in bed with shitty insurance companies that a lot of docs who really want to help people do it out of pocket so they don’t’ have to deal with all of it thereby reducing the number of people who can pay for such services. I’m spending savings at 74 to get good folks to do this with me. 🤷‍♀️