Tag: chronic pain
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Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)
Some people come to Sea to Summit Physical Therapy in South Boulder because of persistent pain and dizziness. In fact, you are likely to know someone who experiences chronic pain as it affects approximately 21% of adults in the United States.
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Assessment for Neuroplastic Pain
In the blogs: About Pain and Pain Reprocessing Therapy, we discussed that all pain is a message from the brain, and that the brain will sometimes misinterpret safe sensations as unsafe, which is often what happens when people experience chronic pain. This misinterpreted pain is called neuroplastic pain. The following list is a helpful criteria…
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The Boulder Back Pain Study – 5 Years Later
In 2021, a randomized clinical study was conducted to assess the response of individuals with chronic low back pain to a treatment called Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT). PRT is a psychological intervention that emphasizes that the brain can create pain in the absence of tissue damage and that teaches the participant to reappraise their thoughts…
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The Boulder Back Pain Study
A common injury for which people seek physical therapy in Boulder, Colorado is back pain. In fact, low back pain leads globally in years lived with disability, having increased by over 60% between 1990 and 2017 despite an increase in research and money spent on treating it., In 2021, a randomized clinical study was conducted…