THE VIDEO SHELF · chronic pain neuroscience
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
In A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue SyndromeThe 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
In Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSIIf 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
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