Healing Chronic Pain: The New Science in the Treatment of Pain

This lecture will give updates on research related to the psychology of pain, discussion of the mind/body connection and how pain is not in your head, but in your brain. Discussion will also cover the role of trauma, emotions and stressful relationships in the development and maintenance of chronic pain including neck and back pain, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, migraine, irritable bowel and more. Therapies, tools and resources to address these symptoms will be reviewed.