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Breakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google

Dr. Howard Schubiner presents his research that much chronic pain comes from learned neural pathways rather than structural damage, and outlines a treatment approach based on that view.

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended to people with chronic pain, fatigue or RSI as a rigorous but balanced case that pain does not always mean injury.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Talks at Google
Topic
chronic pain neuroscience
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • If you think you suffer from CFS please check out Dr. Howard Schubiner and read his book. [VIDEO] I suffered from chronic pain symptoms for almost 10 years (was unable play the piano and type on the keyboard) until I realized it was 100% psychosomatic.

    JoeyJoJoJunior on Hacker News · 2019-09
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  • The article matches my experience and that of many others. It also mentions some key ideas that I haven't seen in other RSI/pain-epiphany writeups: - It may take a variety of resources to accept the idea that your pain doesn't mean injury (see the first …

    wonger_ on Hacker News · 2025-05
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  • If you read some of John Sarno's stuff on psychosomatic pain, it seems highly plausible that most pain is just psychosomatic in nature. [VIDEO] good video on this

    rajlego on Hacker News · 2021-05
    In The anus is an evolutionary marvel

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