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The way out, a revolutionary, scientifically proven approach to healing chronic pain, Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

The way out

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Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv

a revolutionary, scientifically proven approach to healing chronic pain

"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, which 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 program that eliminated his own chronic pain and has transformed the lives of thousands of his patients to eliminate chronic pain. PRT is rooted in neuroscience, which has shown that while chronic pain feels like its coming from the body, in most cases its generated by misfiring pain circuits in the brain. PRT is a system of psycho-logical 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 were remarkable. By the end of the study, the majority of patients were pain-free or nearly pain-free. Whats more, these dramatic changes held up over time. They 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."--, Inside front jacket flap