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Breakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google

Talks at Google · 500.8K views · 2018-01-11 · 53:24

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Dr. Howard Schubiner presents his research that much chronic pain comes from learned neural pathways rather than structural damage, and outlines a treatment approach based on that view.

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Recommended to people with chronic pain, fatigue or RSI as a rigorous but balanced case that pain does not always mean injury.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2019–2025

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wonger_ · 2025-05 · Strong recommendation

The article matches my experience and that of many others. It also mentions some key ideas that I haven't seen in other RSI/pain-epiphany writeups: - It may take a variety of resources to accept the idea that your pain doesn't mean injury (see the first image). Like, you might hear about Sarno's mindbody connection and think it's total quackery because of the language. Maybe it triggers the BS detector in a lot of us. So listen to the same ideas from other perspectives. The author links to Schubiner's talk on chronic pain, which I heartily recommend as the right balance of rigor and tone: [VIDEO] . Curable helped me too: [LINK] . Click through until you get to the audio sections and give them a listen. Testimonials from tech people may help break the old mental model of pain, or at least point convincingly to resources that do. Josh Comeau, the CSS guy, has a post that links to further testimonials: https:www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/mindbody - The second half of healing is calming down the nervous system. The author accomplished this with different therapies, equipped with greater awareness and tools. Others fix their default stress state by leaving the stressful environment, i.e. changing jobs. Either way, the pain goes away. Kudos to the author for presenting everything clearly.

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JoeyJoJoJunior · 2019-09 · Strong recommendation

If you think you suffer from CFS please check out Dr. Howard Schubiner and read his book. [VIDEO] I suffered from chronic pain symptoms for almost 10 years (was unable play the piano and type on the keyboard) until I realized it was 100% psychosomatic.

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rajlego · 2021-05 · Recommendation

If you read some of John Sarno's stuff on psychosomatic pain, it seems highly plausible that most pain is just psychosomatic in nature. [VIDEO] good video on this

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