Somatic Tracking Exercise for Pain Reprocessing Therapy (Guided By Tanner Murtagh, MSW, RSW)
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0:00 Setting Up How to Use Somatic Tracking
2:52 Somatic Tracking Exercise Begins (Guided by Tanner Murtagh, MSW, RSW)
After an assessment for structural versus neuroplastic pain, Pain Reprocessing practitioners help people transform their experience of neuroplastic pain by teaching somatic tracking. By paying close attention to sensations of pain with the knowledge that the body is safe and that this neuroplastic pain is not a sign of damage, people can experiment with being more curious about the sensations, and over time transform their fear of pain.
Over the long term, reducing fear of pain takes away the fuel source for chronic pain, and pain reduces or is eliminated. It's important to have "outcome independence" meaning to engage in the process without expectations of pain relief.
Since fear is often a key fuel source for chronic pain, reducing fear over time leads to reduced chronic pain.