Our new study, “Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial” shows that Psychological treatment centered on changing patients’ beliefs about the causes and threat value of pain may provide substantial and durable pain relief for people with chronic back pain!
The findings provide some of the strongest evidence yet that a psychological treatment can provide potent and durable relief for chronic pain, which afflicts one in five Americans.
“For a long time we have thought that chronic pain is due primarily to problems in the body, and most treatments to date have targeted that,” said lead author Yoni Ashar, who conducted the study while earning his Ph.D. in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder. “This treatment is based on the premise that the brain can generate pain in the absence of injury or after an injury has healed, and that people can unlearn that pain. Our study shows it works.”
Dartmouth News: In Chronic Pain? Changing Your Attitude May Give Relief
U.S.News: Special Therapy Brings Relief to Patients With Chronic Back Pain
CU Boulder Today: How therapy, not pills, can nix chronic pain and change the brain
Denver7 – The Denver Channel: CU Boulder research shows benefits of pain reprocessing therapy
Altmetric News: Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain
SciTechDaily: Rethinking What Causes Pain: Psychological Treatment Shown To Yield Strong, Lasting Pain Relief
Science Daily: Back pain: Psychological treatment shown to yield strong, lasting pain relief, alter brain networks
Florida News Times: Psychotherapy that has been shown to provide powerful and lasting pain relief and alter brain networks
The Irish News: Give patients with back pain therapy – study suggests
The Sunday Times: Pain reprocessing therapy helps with chronic back pain
Video interviews with participants randomized to PRT
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