Can Chronic Pain Be Learned - and Unlearned? with Dr. Howard Schubiner

About this episode

Around 1.5 billion people worldwide live with chronic pain. Yet severe, life‑altering pain can be completely real even when there’s no ongoing physical injury or tissue damage. So what’s happening when the brain and nervous system continue to interpret safe signals from the body as a threat? In the first episode of the new series, host Gabby Sanderson is joined by internist and Clinical Professor Dr. Howard Schubiner to explore the science of neuroplastic pain - and what this emerging understanding could mean for people living with chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue and depression. Dr. Howard explains why all pain is real, but why pain doesn’t always indicate physical harm. He breaks down the…