Articles and Resources
Explore our collection of articles, success stories, and insights about pain science, recovery strategies, and breakthrough treatments.
Part 1: How Our Helicopter Brains Learn to Predict Everything We Feel and Do
March 24, 2025
Caroline J Davies Why having brains like helicopter parents that predict everything can be both good and bad Why are our brains like helicopter parents? When I first heard the term, helicopter parent 1, after my main parenting years were over, I remember thinking two things, how useful new words or concepts could be, and […]
Part 2: Our Helicopter Brains and Their Unfortunate Habit of Predicting Pain
March 24, 2025
Caroline J Davies Read about how predicted pain works and why Pain Reprocessing Therapy makes sense as a way to deal with it. In Part 1: How Our Helicopter Brains Learn to Predict Everything We Feel and Do, I explained how our brains, over time, learn to predict almost everything we feel and do, and […]
Pain Reprocessing Therapy
February 25, 2025
Caroline J Davies A breakthrough in the treatment of pain is starting to change the landscape of what is thought to be possible for people in pain Figure 1 Caroline Davies Reprocess Your Pain: Generated with Chat GPT A promising research study was published in early 2022, showing that the majority of people, with a […]
Five Questions About Pain: That You Might Not Have Thought to Ask
February 24, 2025
Caroline J Davies Answers to these questions could help you to understand what might be behind your acute or chronic pain Figure 1 Group Pain Reprocessing Therapy Session: Copyright Caroline J Davies Reprocess Your Pain In this article, we will be discussing the well-founded, but still slightly shocking idea, that pain is generated in our […]
Can a New Treatment for CRPS Help Others in Pain?
February 12, 2025
Caroline J Davies Finding normal or safe sensations, is key to a promising new treatment for people with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), and offers hope to everyone in pain If you close your eyes, can you picture where your legs are or what position they are in? Can you feel what direction your knees […]