30/01/2026
Your brain is a learning machine. That's usually a good thing — it's how you learned to walk, talk, ride a bike, and recognise faces.
But sometimes the brain learns things we'd rather it didn't. Like chronic pain.
Here's how it happens:
You experience pain, maybe from an injury, maybe during stress, maybe for reasons that were never clear. Your brain notes: "This area of the body is dangerous. Pay attention."
The more you experience pain, the stronger those neural pathways become. Neurons that fire together, wire together. Soon, your brain is incredibly efficient at producing pain in that area, so efficient that it keeps doing it even after the original cause has resolved.
This is neuroplastic pain: pain that persists not because of ongoing damage, but because your brain has learned the pattern too well.
The crucial insight? Just as your brain learned to produce this pain, it can learn to stop. Neuroplasticity works in both directions.
That's what Pain Reprocessing Therapy is designed to do, help your brain unlearn the pain patterns it has mistakenly acquired.
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