Resources for Chronic Pain
What is Chronic Pain?
- Any pain that lasts for 2 months.Â
- Pain of any kind, in any part of the body, and from any cause.
- Chronic pain affects around 20% of the population and causes significant disability and decrease in quality of life.
- Despite being so common, current treatments are ineffective.
- Because chronic pain is an invisible disability, patients’ experiences are often doubted. They’re told to learn to live with their pain—not what anyone wants to hear. I know from 35 years of experience and from the science that chronic pain is very real.
- Chronic pain doesn’t respond to treatments that are effective for acute pain because chronic pain has a different biology. Chronic pain is generated by the brain, not the body.
- Luckily, there is hope. You can learn to rewire the brain and decrease chronic pain, often substantially.
Online Courses
Self-Study Course
Healing Through Neuroplasticity
Learn to reduce or eliminate chronic pain by rewiring your brain. Neuroplasticity works!
Live Online Mentorship
Neuroplasticity In Action
Learn to individualize and optimize your neuroplasticity practice with the connection, validation and support of a mentor and small group. Ask your questions about strategies with chronic pain.
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Live! with Dr. Stein
Evidence-based presentations and Q&A with Dr. Stein. Credible, science-based and cutting edge information about how to live longer and healthier.Â
Webinars (recordings)
Know Pain
Debbie Patterson, a registered physiotherapist and teacher, explains key concepts of pain science, emphasizing neuroplasticity and providing guidance on how to rewire your brain to produce less pain.
More DetailsDeep Pacing
Dr. Stein explains DEEP pacing—providing strategies for attending holistically to the mind and body, to stabilize your energy, make your life and health more predictable and give you more control.Â
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Let Your Light Shine Through
In this manual, Dr. Stein shares the strategies she has found to be the most successful for patients in her 35-year medical practice working with ME, CFS, FM, ES, chronic pain, and more recently, long Covid. Readers are guided through a 286-page, 4-month program specific to these conditions. Let Your Light Shine Through is filled with practical, no-to-low-cost management suggestions, tools and resources. Formats available: hardcopy coil-bound and digital download.Â
Recommended Free VideosÂ
How to Use Neuroplasticity
to Heal Chronic Pain
Dr. Stein shares some of the keys to using neuroplasticity to decrease chronic pain and other associated symptoms. The recording includes over 30 minutes of Q&A with some great questions asked.
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Neuroplasticity of the Brain Meetup
In this presentation, Dr. Stein gave a detailed summary of neuroplasticity, how it causes pain, how we can leverage it to heal from persistent pain, and the neuroplasticity boosters which allow practice to be more effective. The presentation is 45 minutes, followed by a very engaged Q&A session with the attendees.
Interview with the Bill Nelems Pain and Research Centre
Dr. Stein discusses nociplastic pain of which Fibromyalgia is the poster child. The type of persistent, widespread pain-associated symptoms found in FM is caused by a brain process called sensitization. This is good news because we can learn to return the brain to normal processing by the consistent application of simple neuroplasticity-based tools. This neuroscience is the basis of Dr. Stein's new online course Healing through Neuroplasticity.Â
What Can Help Heal Your Pain?
An interview with Simon Pimenta
Simon lives in the UK and had ME/CFS and fibromyalgia for 8 years. In this video, Simon talks to Dr. Stein on the topic of healing pain using Neuroplasticity and other approaches. Â
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