Summary:
Predictive processing, latest science on pain education, chronic pain development and its myths.
Goals:
Participants will describe predictive processing and how the brain generates all sensations.
Participants will describe how pain develops and what makes pain become chronic
Participants will describe what reinforces chronic pain.
Participants will describe three myths about chronic pain (injuries heal, scars don’t hurt, MRIs are always abnormal).
Participants will be able to communicate to clients that all pain is real, that all pain comes from brain neural circuitry, and that there is hope for reversal of most chronic painful conditions.