Understanding chronic pain

Recent research has shown that conditions such as chronic back and neck pain, migraines and tension headaches, TMJ, acid reflux, fibromyalgia symptoms, repetitive strain injury, and other forms of chronic pain are often not the result of structural causes, but of psychophysiological processes that can be reversed. This is known as neuroplastic pain.

This never implies that the pain is "in one's head." Pain is very real, as has been demonstrated by brain imaging studies. Recent research has shown that pain is often the result of learned neural pathways in the brain: literally teaching the brain to focus on and amplify pain signals. And just as pain can be learned, it can also be unlearned.