The Big Picture
This site is for people with persistent pain or physical symptoms, who are searching for relief of their particular symptoms. You live in a blind spot between healthcare practice domains. You probably haven’t found help through regular medical or mental healthcare services.
‘Neuroplastic’ has become the most descriptive category name for ‘persistent’ symptoms. Recent neuroscience research demonstrates the most common cause for persistent symptoms is neuroplastic.
The symptom is your ‘subconscious brain’ trying to get the attention of your ‘conscious brain’. Usually ‘ankle pain’ means an injury threat to your ankle. But a persistent symptom probably has a neuroplastic cause, rather than a damage cause.
Threats causing persistent symptoms frequently have ‘emotional’ components linked to coping with your past or current circumstances. Neuroplastic means ‘plastic-like’ brain pathways that continually adapt to your life circumstances.
Neuroplastic symptoms can be reversed by subsequent neuroplastic changes! Think ‘calming the threat monitor’ in your brain. Your search for neuroplastic relief will be unique because your brain is unique.
The Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms at www.Neuroplastic.org is the single richest resource of neuroplastic insight we have found. Some ATNS podcasts feature ‘neuroplastic symptom stories’ of individuals. Stories can expand your awareness of the scientific support for neuroplastic concepts and the realization that relief can be real for you.
This www.PainScienceLifeStories.org website also features neuroplastic symptom stories. You can search PSLS stories through a curated table, where you choose which elements/stories seem most likely to lead to answers for your questions about finding relief.
Feature Life Story Resource
Our feature archive resource is the video “My Pain Path – A PT Perspective” by,Jeffrey R. Blanchard | Pain Science Life Stories 1031
An interest in body building led Jeff Blanchard to love anatomy and kinesiology. That, in turn, led him to a career in Physical Therapy. His biomedical model PT training taught him to understand pain as “injury A, signal B, pain C.” Given his focus on diagnosis for choosing the appropriate treatment, he pursued a lot of continuing education over the course of his 25+ year career. Yet he noticed that–particularly with chronic pain patients–it seemed like his exercise skills and manual therapy tools were not enough to provide long-term benefits.
