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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.
➡️ If you're interested in 1:1 coaching with Kent: www.mindbodyin...