Read jimmy’s sequence. Stopping pain is something that the brain can easily do. It’s just not something the brain usually does because pain is a valuable signal.
If you take RSI, it’s common that people who suffer from it have tight fascia around their nerves that prevent the nerves from moving in their nerve sheets unimpeded. Doing nerve sliding exercises helps address that problem, I wouldn’t go for convincing the brain to just ignore the signal as the first order of business.
some people are just really good at this suggestion business and we just need to teach them how to stop lying and how to scale their work in order to heal chronic pain at scale
There are plenty of hypnotists who are good at what they do and while some hypnotists do lie, there are many that don’t. There are a lot of institutional reasons why hypnosis doesn’t scale in the current system for pain expect for dentists who offer it as an additional services for pain free dentistry instead of pain killers.
Yeah I didn’t want to imply all chronic pain is not serving a purpose. I meant we should figure out good base rates what the underlying issues are by fixing a bunch of cases exhaustively.
I’m not exactly sure I know what you mean with “fixing a bunch of cases exhaustively” in the current state of medicine. It sounds similar to me like “cure a bunch of cancers exhausively”. It seems quite far outside of what mainstream medicine is equipped to do.
Yeah I didn’t want to imply all chronic pain is psychosomatic
I don’t think that’s a useful way to look at it. Pain arises as a complex interaction between the body and the mind. The pain that patients have at the dentist certainly isn’t psychosomatic, that doesn’t mean that you can shut it off psychologically if you want to do that. It’s just pain.
On the other side, you do need a sense of safety to get acetylcholine release in fascia. Without that you won’t get certain bodily tension released.
If someone has sensor motor amnesia downstream from suppressing an emotion like anger, just shutting of the pain might not solve the psychosomatic issue at it’s base level.
Read jimmy’s sequence. Stopping pain is something that the brain can easily do. It’s just not something the brain usually does because pain is a valuable signal.
If you take RSI, it’s common that people who suffer from it have tight fascia around their nerves that prevent the nerves from moving in their nerve sheets unimpeded. Doing nerve sliding exercises helps address that problem, I wouldn’t go for convincing the brain to just ignore the signal as the first order of business.
There are plenty of hypnotists who are good at what they do and while some hypnotists do lie, there are many that don’t. There are a lot of institutional reasons why hypnosis doesn’t scale in the current system for pain expect for dentists who offer it as an additional services for pain free dentistry instead of pain killers.
Implementing prediction-based medicine would be helpful to get this to scale.
Yeah I didn’t want to imply all chronic pain is not serving a purpose. I meant we should figure out good base rates what the underlying issues are by fixing a bunch of cases exhaustively.
I’m not exactly sure I know what you mean with “fixing a bunch of cases exhaustively” in the current state of medicine. It sounds similar to me like “cure a bunch of cancers exhausively”. It seems quite far outside of what mainstream medicine is equipped to do.
I don’t think that’s a useful way to look at it. Pain arises as a complex interaction between the body and the mind. The pain that patients have at the dentist certainly isn’t psychosomatic, that doesn’t mean that you can shut it off psychologically if you want to do that. It’s just pain.
On the other side, you do need a sense of safety to get acetylcholine release in fascia. Without that you won’t get certain bodily tension released.
If someone has sensor motor amnesia downstream from suppressing an emotion like anger, just shutting of the pain might not solve the psychosomatic issue at it’s base level.