Retraining your emotions a new way to help relieve chronic pain

Chronic pain affects around 30% of people globally, and up to 80% of those people with chronic pain also experience depression.

While pain medications are an important part of treatment, a new trial is showing that training people’s emotion regulation skills can also help. Not only does this reduce the intensity of pain, it can be done online.

Dr Nell Norman-Nott PhD, Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales and Neuroscience Research Australia, and her colleagues, recently ran a trial that delved into this approach.

She joined us on the line at the Thursday Daily this morning, to share what they found.

 

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Article in the UNSW Newsroom: New chronic pain therapy retrains the brain to process emotions

Research paper published in the JAMA Network: Online Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Emotion Dysregulation in People With Chronic Pain : A Randomized Clinical Trial

To register your interest in the Pain and Emotion Therapy Trial visit https://www.neurorecoveryresearch.com/pain-emotion-therapy