A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by
new research.
Chronic pain is an epidemic. Fifty million Americans struggle with back
pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment.
Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure
for chronic pain.
Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist and the founder of the Pain Psychology
Center in Los Angeles, was in grad school when he started experiencing
chronic pain and it completely derailed his life. He saw multiple
doctors and received many diagnoses, but none of the medical treatments
helped. Frustrated with conventional pain management, he developed Pain
Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a mind-body protocol that eliminated his own
chronic pain and has transformed the lives of thousands of his patients.
PRT is rooted in neuroscience, which has shown that while chronic pain
feels like it's coming from the body, in most cases it's generated by
misfiring pain circuits in the brain. PRT is a system of psychological
techniques that rewires the brain to break out of the cycle of chronic
pain.
The University of Colorado-Boulder recently conducted a large randomized
controlled study on PRT, and the results are remarkable. By the end of
the study, the majority of patients were pain-free or nearly pain-free.
What's more, these dramatic changes held up over time.
The Way Out brings PRT to readers. It combines accessible science with
a concrete, step-by-step plan to teach sufferers how to heal their own
chronic pain.
