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Physician: West LA :general medicine, sports med, mind-body medicine, TMS, neuroplastic, chronic pain. Author of bks on pain. https://bit.ly/2Rk8lRq

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Sneak peek- look how cute my slides turned out for my presentation at the ATNS conference in Dallas next week!

The ATNS conferences have been so fun to attend these last 2 years. The presentations are so well done, and there is time before and after to meet and talk to your favorite researchers, authors, podcasters etc in this field.

ATNS stands for the “Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms”. Meaning research based ways using neuroplasticity to treat and cure chronic pain and health conditions.

You may be surprised how many diagnoses can be changed by reprocessing or unlearning pain!

#bodyandmindlifecoach, #painreprocessingtherapy, #painscience, #atnsconference2025, #unlearnyourpain

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Rethinking Chronic Pain
Dr. David Schechter @drdavela carries on Dr. John Sarno’s legacy, exploring the relationship between personality, emotions and neuroscience and how psychological and physical approaches can shape our understanding of chronic pain.

🎙️‘The Smartest Doctor in the Room’ hosted by Dr. Dean Mitchell @thesmartestdoctor on @ukhealthradio.

👉🏼 🎧 https://tinyurl.com/4t5asphk

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HAPPY VULVAR AWARENESS DAY. Education on vulvovaginal disorders is neglected even in the training of OB/GYNs.

Vulvodynia remains disturbingly understudied despite affecting a similar percentage of the population as prostatitis. The disparity is staggering: 1,300 PubMed hits for vulvodynia versus 311,000 for prostatitis.

Given these facts, it is logically impossible to claim that biomedical causes of pain are being ‘ruled out’ by the average practitioner. If physical pathology cannot be ruled out due to systemic medical neglect, then claiming the pain is ‘psychogenic’ or ‘neuroplastic’ is a mathematical fraud.

Promoting the ‘mind-body’ narrative under these conditions is not medicine; it is medical misogyny. Until 100% of gynecologists are trained in vulvar disorders and research and funding reaches parity with male-predominant conditions, any claim of ‘psychosomatic pain’ is simply a cover for ignorance.

#Neohysteria #Vulvodynia #MedicalMisogyny #MedicalGaslighting #mindbodysyndrome

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Newest episode with Dr. David Schector out on the @healwithgracepodcast

Dr. David Schechter @drdavela trained under Dr. John Sarno himself -> the doctor who started the whole mind-body pain movement. And in this episode he opens up about the moment that changed his career (and what he’s learned in the decades since, treating thousands of chronic pain patients).

We get into why a doctor’s words can make your pain WORSE (there’s a name for it), why chronic pain works completely differently than acute pain, and the wild story of patients finding their way to healing through AI after twenty-plus doctors came up empty.

If your pain hasn’t budged in years and you’re running out of hope -> this episode was made for you.

🎧 Ep 138. Healing Chronic Pain That Hasn’t Budged in Years is live now.

Comment PODCAST and I’ll DM you the link to listen. 🤍

#chronicpainrecovery #nervoussystemhealing #mindbodyhealing #neuroplasticpain #somatichealing

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Join us for the next Early Career Special Interest group on Wednesday, August 12, at 8p.m. ET, featuring guest speaker David Schechter, MD.

Together, we’ll explore topics that support education, professional development, and connection with others who are early in their careers and passionate about advancing neuroplastic symptoms care.

The Early Career SIG is open to all ATNS members in the early years of their careers.
Register through the link in our bio.

#Neuroplasticity #ChronicPain #PainRecovery #EarlyCareer

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The countdown is on! ATNS 2026 is bringing together an outstanding lineup of experts for three days of learning, collaboration, and innovation in neuroplastic symptom treatment. If you’ve been thinking about attending, this is the year to do it!

Don’t miss your chance to take advantage of early-bird pricing before it ends. We can’t wait to welcome you to Dallas, October 15–17.

Reserve your spot today—link in bio.

#Neuroplasticity #ChronicPain #PainRecovery

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So no matter what you do, it can be framed as you causing yourself pain. 😒 I call BS!

This video depicts a rhetorical strategy built on unfalsifiability in “neuroplastic pain,” “TMS,” and “pain reprocessing therapy” circles, where pain can always be framed as caused by the patient’s behavior and emotions; whether you talk about pain or don’t (repress it), your actions can be labeled as a cause of your suffering.

🌟 Also, neither claim—that repressed emotions directly cause physical pain, or that talking about pain makes it persist—is supported by established science.

In fact, research on emotional expression and social support suggests that expressing pain to a supportive listener can reduce stress physiology and emotional distress. 🤗🧑🏼‍❤️‍💋‍🧑🏾

❤️Fund the research. Educate providers. Improve healthcare access. Increase social support. Reduce stigma. Stop psychologizing chronic pain and illness.
#chronicpain #toxicpositivity #neuroplasticpain #drsarno #curable

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When we started trying to make our documentary “All The Rage” about Dr Sarno in 2004 we began with some exploratory discussions. He was a genius who was way ahead of his time. I can only imagine how frustrating it was to find so much success in helping people to re-regulate their emotions by exploring the impact of the repression caused by trauma in childhood - while getting lambasted by a medical system that refused to acknowledge the impact of trauma or emotions on health

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Our film about Dr Sarno “All The Rage” can be found at alltheragedoc.com

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We made a movie 10 years ago about Dr John Sarno. I hope you can check it out (link in bio) If you struggle with chronic symptoms please check out the people tagged. They can give you great information that might help you on your path towards healing.

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I did a Ted Talk about my experience being treated by - and making a film about Dr John Sarno (“All the Rage”)- a pioneer of trauma informed medicine. He was an outcast in his lifetime despite helping millions of people heal. This is an excerpt from that talk. The full piece is on YouTube. It’s unlisted and not searchable because TED believes he was not scientific. I gave them 35 footnotes which I don’t think they looked at. So please click the link and share #trauma #backpain #drsarno #traumainformedcare #traumahealing

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Dr. David Schechter
The Mind-Body Healing Journey

Our latest episode of Harnessing Your Wealth is focused on your health. We sat down with Dr. David Schechter of the MindBody Solutions to Pain.

Link in bio or listen on our website at www.petersonws.com/podcast.
#mindbody #podcast #chronicpain

#sportsinjury
#sportsrehab

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