What does this Mean?

Could psychological treatments focused on helping change the patients’ beliefs about the causes and threat value of chronic low back provide substantial pain relief? They developed a therapy they called pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) based on the understanding of chronic pain. As pain becomes chronic it becomes associated with activity and patients build avoidance of those activities. The brain connects chronic pain with activity even in the absence of any tissue damage and way past the time of injury.

Conclusion

Each patient received a telehealth session with a physician and 8 psychological treatment sessions—that instructed patients to think of their pain as “nondangerous brain activity rather than peripheral tissue injury…” This study showed that 66% of participants were pain-free or nearly pain-free with 4 weeks of PRT. People could have substantial pain relief with treatment focusing on changing fear- and avoidance-inducing beliefs in the absence of tissue damage.

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