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Hey Reader!

After last month’s epic newsletter I am going to keep it short and sweet. I wanted to share some helpful science type things that I feel are important.

You may or may not know of Lorimer Moesly, Neuroscientist, Physiotherapist, and all around funny guy from his now famous TED talk on chronic pain. He has continued the work since then and has learned even more about how pain works. I recently heard his 4 essential pain pacts and I find them quite comforting somehow.

4 Essential Pain Facts

1. Pain is a protector and promotes healing. It does not detect damage. It occurs in order to prevent damage.
2. Persistent pain overprotects us and prevents recovery. The more often we produce pain, the lower the threshold to produce it becomes. (Hypersensitivity)
3. Many factors influence pain.
4. Therefore there are many ways to reduce pain and slowly retrain the pain system back to normal protective settings.

The other thing I wanted to share was a recent study

Dr. Brandon Yarns at UCLA and the VA Hospital in Los Angeles, published a study in JAMA Open Network that we think will be a game-changer.

In brief, he randomized 126 older, male veterans with chronic pain into an group that received 8 group therapy sessions in Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy versus a group that received 8 group therapy sessions of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. The results were stunning. 63% of the individuals in the EAET group achieved pain reduction of more than 30%, compared to only 17% of those in the CBT group. For the 50% pain reduction level, it was 35% in the EAET group versus 7% in the CBT group. These are huge differences that are rarely seen in any study. People in the EAET group also showed higher level of symptom reductions than in the CBT group for anxiety, depression, and PTSD. In fact, those with higher levels of anxiety, depression and PTSD achieved more reductions in pain with EAET therapy.

Here is a link to the study and to the press release.

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I have recently learned a little bit about EAET from a course with Dr. Howard Schubiner and am starting to apply it with my clients! Let me know if you want to learn more about it!

With love,

Coach Katie

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