Stream the full 80-min film at https://www.thismighthurtfilm.com

🏆 Official Selection, Austin Film Festival

➡️ Includes guided somatic tracking exercise 🧘 at 16:20

0:00 Tanner tells his personal chronic pain story
2:43 Howard Schubiner, MD defines Pain Reprocessing Therapy
5:10 FIRST CRITICAL STEP IN PRT: Get an assessment for neuroplastic pain versus structural pain. (Do not skip this step! It is critical for reducing fear, which is the whole game.)

Tanner lays out the criteria for identifying neuroplastic pain: if there no damage discovered in the body, does the symptom switch on and off, does it move around and spread over time, does stress make it worse, is there a history of childhood stress or trauma, do you have multiple pain syndromes, and many more.

9:10 How to get an accurate assessment if you can't see a "mind-body-informed physician" — hint: most people don't need a special mind-body physician.

13:39 Tanner sets up how to use Somatic Tracking for Pain Reprocessing
16:20 GUIDED SOMATIC TRACKING 🧘🧘🧘
21:00 Why does chronic pain alternate with intense anxiety?
25:22 The Boulder Back Pain study found that 66% of patients became pain-free with somatic tracking and PRT from working with therapists Alan Gordon and Christie Uipi.
29:20 Why is it important to be outcome independent?
32:00 What if somatic tracking and PRT aren't enough to unlearn pain?
35:30 How do you talk to other people about this work?
39:24 Lots of ways to work with mind-body symptoms, these are just a few of many. Each person has to find what works for them. EAET (Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy) is another powerful modality that can be added or combined with PRT. EAET is featured extensively in This Might Hurt.

Q&A about how to use Pain Reprocessing Therapy and somatic tracking to unlearn many common chronic pain conditions like back pain, neck pain, hip pain, pelvic pain, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Interstitial Cystitis, headaches, and migraines.

Also multi-systemic syndromes that lead to fatigue, insomnia, brain fog, and othe symptoms: Chronic Lyme, post-viral syndromes like ME/CFS and Long Covid, Pain from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, chronic Epstein-Barr syndrome, Mast Cell Activation, and many other illnesses. You can find a compendious list at http://thismighthurtfilm.com/other-sy...

Tanner Murtagh, MSW, RSW is the Director of Pain Psychotherapy Canada and a therapist specializing in treating neuroplastic pain and mind-body concerns. Tanner recovered from chronic pain several years ago using a mind-body approach and now is passionate to support people in unlearning their pain.

Howard Schubiner, MD (film subject) is an internal medicine physician and has been treating chronic pain patients for nearly two decades. He's recognized as a leading researcher in the field. Much of his time is devoted to teaching doctors and other health care professionals about the intricacies of this work. He is a clinical professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and author of the book Unlearn Your Pain. You can find his work online at unlearnyourpain.com.

Kent Bassett (director, moderator) is an Emmy-nominated editor and filmmaker as well as a pain recovery coach. He directed and edited This Might Hurt (Austin Film Festival), a feature documentary about chronic pain and a radical mind-body treatment, and his most recent editing work is Not Going Quietly, a feature documentary about health care activist Ady Barkan (on Hulu, 2 Emmy Nominations). Kent has a BA in history from Swarthmore College and an MFA in film production from Chapman University.After directing This Might Hurt, Kent trained as a pain recovery coach and works with clients at Mind-Body Insight.
➡️ If you're interested in 1:1 coaching with Kent: https://www.mindbodyinsight.net