Chronic Pain: Why we Must Treat the Mind, Body, and Heart

When I tell people I'm a therapist and coach specializing in the treatment of chronic pain, their first question is often whether I mean that I'm a physical therapist. Nope. All chronic pain has an emotional component and emerging research indicates that it is imperative to treat the emotional component in order for patients to recover. In this video, I describe the groundbreaking neuroscience and a fascinating experiment that showed us how important it that your pain be treated from a holistic, evidence-based perspective.