Back & Neck Pain- A Q&A session hosted by Kent Bassett

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Post-screening dialogue with Jim Prussack, the Pain PT! Co-presented by the Pain PT and This Might Hurt film.
This webinar focuses on how to unlearn back and neck pain. We specifically cover the assessment process-how to take in information about your diagnosis and make sense of it. Do you have clearly structural issues like an infection, a fracture, or a tumor? Do you have an extreme herniated disk, or muscle control issues in your leg? Do you have problems with your bowel or bladder? These problems tend to be the tale-tell signs of structural damage issues, and they can require medical intervention. But these back issues account for less than 10% of back pain cases.
The vast majority of back and neck pain are not caused by structural damage, but rather through learned neural pathways, or neural circuits. So called “degenerative disk disease” is actually not a disease, but rather the signs of normal wear and tear of aging, just like wrinkly skin. But these normal aging signs have been unnecessarily medicalized; and sometimes people are getting surgery on healthy backs because of this misunderstanding.
How to recognize when you have mind-body back pain? And how to overcome it? Jim Prussack is a licensed physical therapist who has a full-time practice assessing and helping treat people with mind-body back pain and other mind-body disorders. What follows is a masterclass on how he does his work, and how he thinks about the role of the brain in generated and healing back pain. He has helped many, many people make full recoveries from pain and shares his lessons learned, as well as a guided somatic tracking exercise that anyone can benefit from.
More information and resources about back pain can be found on our site at: www.thismighth..., including the video where Dr. Howard Schubiner dissects the 2015 study of MRI’s which showed the Degenerative Disk Disease, herniated discs and bulging disks and many other spinal “abnormalities” are actually just normally aging disks and are found in large numbers of people with no back pain. .
Link to video of Alan PRT video demonstrating Somatic Tracking:
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Links to the studies cited:
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Study showing that 88% of unselected patients with back pain have nothing structurally wrong with their backs that would explain their pain:
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Jim Prussack (PT coach, panelist) is a licensed physical therapist in California. He has been practicing since 1998 treating all types of musculoskeletal issues. In the last 5 years Jim has moved to treating primarily chronic somatic issues in the body. This was born out of his own frustrations in resolving chronic pain and then the work of Dr. Sarno and the subsequent trainings with Dr. Schubiner and other leaders in the mind body field. Jim works with individuals and in groups and can be found online at thepainpt.com and on his extensive KZbin page: / @healingchronicpain-th...
Kent Bassett (coach, moderator) is an Emmy-nominated editor and filmmaker as well as a pain recovery coach. He directed and edited This Might Hurt (Austin Film Festival), a feature documentary about chronic pain and a radical mind-body treatment, and his most recent editing work is Not Going Quietly, a feature documentary about health care activist Ady Barkan (on Hulu, 2 Emmy Nominations). Kent has a BA in history from Swarthmore College and an MFA in film production from Chapman University. His narrative film work includes Girls Will Be Girls (co-producer, Sundance), Honolulu (editor, Aspen Shortsfest), The Line (writer/director, winner, spirit award, Brooklyn Film Festival), and A Period Piece (editor, SXSW). After directing This Might Hurt, Kent trained as a pain recovery coach and works with people struggling with chronic pain at Mind-Body Insight.
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[@Lara-dq7yb]

Thank you so much for this!

[@ThisMightHurt]

0:00 Intro 1:13 Framing with a study suggesting 88% of back pain is mind-body 2:30 Jim’s personal history with pain/treating pain 9:30 10 Myths and Facts about back pain 13:30 SI joint pain 16:45 Surgery vs. Mind-Body treatment 19:00 Herniated disks and bulging disks 22:08 When back pain is linked to muscle control issues 24:15 Symptoms of TMS / Mind-Body Syndrome 25:11 Ways to assess Mind Body Syndrome 26:35 Treatment of Mind Body Syndrome 29:45 EAET (Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy) and PRT (Pain Reprocessing Therapy) 32:17 GUIDED SOMATIC TRACKING 🧘🧘 42:30 Possible outcomes of a PRT session 44:10 Diverticulitis, IBS and Pelvic Pain and other Mind-Body symptoms 46:55 Arthritic pain 49:30 Chronic neck and back pain

[@lynneberry6495]

Lovely practice! Thank You for this discussion 🙏❤️

[@Ama40401]

I’d love to hear your opinion on frozen shoulder, as well as shoulder I inflammation..

[@g.siporin4000]

I do believe in TMS. However, I ran daycare for 22 years and had low back pain. A massage therapist taught me to hold my arms in the air and lean back and hold for a minute. I dd that for 3 nights and my back pain has never returned. I also had sciatica and looked up exercises on KZbin. Did them a few days, sciatica never returned. ❤

[@thepainpt]

Yes can happen if you remove tightness etc but in those cases there was no injury if it went away that quickly. Could also be some placebo which is the brain at play

[@g.siporin4000]

@@thepainpt no injury? My back hurt for years from lifting kids for 22 years.

[@KingStoner23]

I’m STILL trying to figure out “ what are structural issues ?”

[@ambitiousbutrubbish1992]

Can TMS be applied in cases such as ulcerative colitis?

[@kent.bassett]

Ulcerative colitis is considered a structural damage syndrome by physicians, including mind-body-informed physicians like Howard Schubiner, MD and Dave Clarke MD. However, I have heard Dr. Clarke suggest that sometimes abdominal symptoms are blamed on ulcerative colitis, when they may be driven more by mind-body phenomena. In other words, a person can have both ulcerative colitis *and* irritable bowel syndrome-and the latter is considered TMS. So that can be a tricky thing to sort out. Wishing you luck. -Kent

[@ambitiousbutrubbish1992]

Thank's a lot. @@kent.bassett

[@sasha_fierce]

Look at Nicole Sachs work and her podcast The Cure for Chronic Pain so many digestive conditions are TMS

[@thelaceygirl]

I’ve heard stories of people healing from this using mind body techniques.

[@ambitiousbutrubbish1992]

@@thelaceygirl thank you! 🧡🧡🧡