Can the Brain Unlearn Chronic Pain? With Dr Howard Schubiner and Gigi Cockell

About this episode

Can the brain create real, physical pain even after the body has healed? In this episode, host David Mark, Co-Director Coaching at the New School of Nutritional Medicine, speaks with Dr Howard Schubiner, physician and author of Unlearn Your Pain, and pain and wellness practitioner Gigi Cockell about neuroplastic pain: chronic symptoms that persist not because of ongoing tissue damage, but because the brain has learned to sound a warning signal that no longer serves a purpose. Dr Schubiner explains the neuroscience behind predictive processing and shares research showing that MRI findings such as bulging discs, degenerative changes and rotator cuff tears appear at similar rates in people…