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No new injury but still have awful pain? We experience pain because we have a Brain. Neuroplastic Pain Treatment.

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At the heart of this chemical symphony are two key players: endorphins and dopamine. These neurotransmitters, often referred to as “feel-good” chemicals, play crucial roles in regulating our emotions, motivation, and pleasure responses. While we often associate their release with more intense activities like exercise or thrilling experiences, mounting evidence suggests that the humble smile might be a powerful trigger for these mood-enhancing molecules….

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No new injury but still have awful pain? We experience pain because we have a Brain. Neuroplastic Pain Treatment.

Aucune nouvelle blessure, mais toujours une douleur atroce ?
Nous ressentons la douleur parce que nous avons un cerveau.

Traitement neuroplastique de la douleur.

Hello, Everyone / Bonjour à tous

Dr. Michael Moskowitz and Dr. Marla Golden and their team have created new beautiful graphics – education on the brain

Images are from https://www.neuroplastix.com/

Le Dr Michael Moskowitz, le Dr Marla Golden et leur équipe ont créé de nouveaux graphiques magnifiques - éducation sur le cerveau

Ces images proviennent de https://www.neuroplastix.com/

How does pain get from here to here?

How does the Brain work?

Comment la douleur passe-t-elle d’ici à là ?
Comment fonctionne le cerveau ?

Example / Exemple

Brain – Fractured Femur Bone – Spinal Cord

Cerveau – Fracture du fémur – Moelle épinière

https://www.neuroplastix.com/

Neuroplastix is dedicated to curing the disease of persistent pain in all people who suffer by unifying brain and body as the focus of treatment.

Neuroplastix se consacre à soigner les maladies liées à la douleur chronique chez toutes les personnes qui en souffrent, en unifiant le cerveau et le corps comme axe central du traitement.

On page 4 of workbook TRANSFORMING THE BRAIN IN PAIN: NEUROPLASTIC TRANSFORMATION,

Dr. Michael H. Moskowitz and Dr. Marla D. Golden enlighten:

“Without your brain, there is no pain. Your brain doesn’t just receive information from your body, but sends directions back out to tell your body what to do.

“Your brain ‘reads’ everything going on in your body 30 times a second for your entire life.

“The adult brain changes throughout our lives based upon the information it receives from our bodies.

“We only experience pain when the electrical signals reach the thinking part of our brains.”

“Nous ne ressentons la douleur que lorsque les signaux électriques atteignent la partie pensante de notre cerveau“

“This is why during surgery, when general anesthesia shuts down the thinking part of the brain, the person doesn’t feel pain.”

“C’est pourquoi, pendant une opération chirurgicale, lorsque l’anesthésie générale désactive la partie pensante du cerveau, la personne ne ressent aucune douleur.”

And… Dr. Moskowitz and Dr. Golden say: “The more sensation each part of your body has, the bigger the image of that body part in your brain (page 4 of workbook) … Shrink the pain map by flooding the brain using:

…thoughts, images, senses, memories, soothing emotions, movement, beliefs.” (page 13 of their workbook)

CLICK ON “EDUCATION” TAB

https://www.neuroplastix.com/about-8

EDUCATION - Change the Brain; Relieve the Pain; Transform the Person

ÉDUCATION - Changer le cerveau ; soulager la douleur ; transformer la personne

Acute pain. Chronic /Persistent pain.

Douleur aiguë. Douleur chronique / persistante.

Scroll down this page to get the 4 PDFs = Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4

Lecture One: Brain Basics

How does pain get from here to here

How does the Brain work

Synapses: Each Brain Cell is Capable of About 10,000 Synapses

There are 100 billion nerve cells in the
brain
There are 1000 trillion connections
(synapses) that pass information from one
part of the brain to another
Every week trillions of connections either
form or disappear

https://www.neuroplastix.com/_files/ugd/579dba_7291dc4a3a414d44a32c4d8be690f395.pdf

Page 14 in Lecture Four:

Every pain treatment alters the brain

There is no peripheral treatment

Pain is only perceived in the cerebral cortex

La douleur n’est perçue que dans le cortex cérébral.

If pain processing is not reduced there, pain cannot be
decreased

Pain can be successfully treated from the periphery to alter
brain-based pain processing or from the brain to alter
peripheral processes

Ultimate successful treatment of persistent pain must alter the
constantly cycling brain/body loop

NO pain / PAS de douleur

https://www.neuroplastix.com/

Neuroplastix is dedicated to curing the disease of persistent pain in all people who suffer by unifying brain and body as the focus of treatment.

The neuroplastix.com website is ranked number one for all major search engines for Neuroplastic Treatment, Neuroplastic Pain Treatment and Neuroplastic Pain Therapy.

This ranking was accomplished by providing professionals and people living with pain a compelling experience based upon scientific content, consumer friendly information and highly navigable web design.

The educational programs establish a new paradigm in pain care, bringing advances in neuroscience to anyone affected by persistent pain, including patients, their families and providers. This is accomplished via conferences, interactive materials, scientific publications and professional training, providing a method to transform the clinical treatment of pain.

https://www.neuroplastix.com/about-5

Dr. Michael Moskowitz is Board Certified in both Psychiatry and Pain Medicine.

Dr. Moskowitz is a member of the Educational Council of the National Initiative on Pain Control, a group of the top pain physicians in the country. He served as a member of the Examination Council for the American Board of Pain Medicine from 2006-2010 and as the former chairman of the Educational Committee of the American Academy of Pain Medicine.

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He has also served on the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s Continuing Education Committee, Enduring Materials Committee and chaired the Academy’s Website redesign committee. He has pioneered the development and use of animations to teach and understand principles of pain medicine and has designed and developed the most popular website for pain animations in the world, since 1999,

http://www.bayareapainmedical.com

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Dr. Moskowitz has been an Assistant Clinical Professor for the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California, Davis since 2006, teaching the psychiatric and neuroplastic aspects of pain medicine there, to the Pain Fellows

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In November of 2008, Dr. Michael Moskowitz began working with Marla Golden, DO, MS on Neuroplasticity and its role in the treatment of patients living with persistent pain. Together, Dr. Moskowitz and Dr. Golden have lectured on this topic around the country and have delivered several 2-12 hour seminars on this topic.

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Dr. Moskowitz and Dr. Golden are the co-founders of Neuroplastic Partners, LLC, a company dedicated to the promotion of Neuroplastic treatment for persistent pain. He recently co-authored the Neuroplastic Transformation Workbook designed to teach practitioners how to use neuroplastic treatment approaches and provide patients with a written guide to recover from persistent pain disorders.

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By the way, Dr. Moskowitz is Chapter 1 in Dr. Norman Doidge’s second book

THE BRAIN’S WAY OF HEALING: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity

Guérir grâce à la neuroplasticité: Découvertes remarquables à l’avant-garde de la recherche sur le cerveau

Chapter 1 Physician Hurt, Then Heal Thyself - Michael Moskowitz Discovers That Chronic Pain Can Be Unlearned

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Marla Golden, DO, MS is an Osteopathic Physician in Jacksonville, Florida. Doctor Golden graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1988. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville, Florida in 1992. She is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.Doctor Golden practiced Emergency Medicine in Florida and served as the Medical Director of the Emergency Department at HCA Putnam Community Hospital and as the Medical Director of EMS in Putnam County. She transitioned her practice to Pain Medicine in 1998, establishing the solo practice of Integrative Pain Management in 2000.

She is a diplomate of both the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Pain Medicine. She practices a holistic and comprehensive approach to treating patients in pain. Her practice includes an emphasis on Osteopathic structural assessment and optimization techniques. For many years, she has utilized manual therapy in combination with medication management and minimally invasive interventional techniques as well as other treatment modalities.

Thank you for reading my blog post:

“No new injury but still have awful pain? We experience pain because we have a Brain. Neuroplastic Pain Treatment.”

Merci d’avoir lu mon article de blog:”Vous n’avez pas subi de nouvelle blessure, mais vous souffrez toujours d’une douleur atroce ? Nous ressentons la douleur parce que nous avons un cerveau. Traitement neuroplastique de la douleur.”

You might like to read my other blog posts about Neuroplasticity:”Story Theme Consultant Teresa Jade LeYung says: “Scarecrow in THE WIZARD OF OZ would feel NO pain”

https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/story-theme-consultant-teresa-jade-leyung-says-scarecrow-in-the-wizard-of-oz-would-feel-no-pain/

Brain / Pain Scientist Professor Lorimer Moseley uses humor to help us understand Dark Side of Pain

https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/brain-pain-scientist-professor-lorimer-moseley-uses-humor-to-help-us-understand-dark-side-of-pain/

Want Wellness; Norman Doidge, M.D.’s books – The Brain That Changes Itself, Neuroplasticity

https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/want-wellness-norman-doidge-m-d-s-books-the-brain-that-changes-itself-neuroplasticity/

I wish you and your family, and everyone round you – excellent health and happiness always.Je vous souhaite, à vous, à votre famille et à tous ceux qui vous entourent, une excellente santé et beaucoup de bonheur, toujours.

Teresa Jade LeYung wishes everyone peace and wellness - photo by NN and MEK

Teresa Jade LeYung

Author / Blogger / Story-Theme Consultant / Photo Historian

https://m.youtube.com/@teresajadeleyung/videoshttps://LoveMadeOfHeart.com/blog/ goes to Teresa Jade LeYung’s Blog on Wellness, Story Themes, Archetypes

Love Made Of Heart ®

Wellness, Laughter, Writers, Jack Benny Program, Dr. Michael H. Moskowitz, Dr. Marla D. Golden, TRANSFORMING THE BRAIN IN PAIN Workbook

admin — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 03:59:32 +0000

2021 December 12, 13:37

Addendum: The techniques in Dr. Michael Moskowitz’s and Dr. Marla Golden’s workbook helps me “outgrow” persistent unpleasant sensations including pain.

2021 December 9, 15:18 – 16:18; December 10, 18:00 – 19:58 California

Dear Reader,

I have been watching episodes of The Jack Benny Program (TV series 1950-1965) and laughing out loud; thank you to the folks who post them on YouTube.

Laughing out loud is good medicine – a mighty elixir – for me.

The world continues to be impacted by COVID-19 pandemic. How can I think about laughing?

I am still dealing with a neurological disorder. How can I think about laughing?

Smiling for one’s self; laughing for one’s self; walking; imagining walking; moving to soothing thoughts – are some of the activities which help our beautiful brains produce beneficial chemicals. What I have learned as an advocate for my papa since 2015 when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease … and what I’ve learned and continue to learn – as a patient of persistent unpleasant sensations including pain - is that there are things I can do for myself to feel better. Even if the sensation of wellness seems ephemeral… I’ll take wellness moments. Thank you very much!

I remember sitting with Vicki Weiland https://vickiweiland.wordpress.com …knowing that it took our dear friend many days (oftentimes many weeks, even months) to prepare herself for visitors. Awful persistent pain was the symptoms.

On two occasions, I witnessed how laughter was a mighty elixir for Vicki. Someone in the room said something funny; or Vicki herself said something funny and we all laughed … at that moment Vicki’s entire body expressed wellness.

How we all wished that our pal would have millions of wellness moments.

Angel Vicki,

I’ve been watching my favorite episodes of The Jack Benny Program again and again. Interestingly, several of them feature James Stewart and his wife Gloria. More about that … at the end of my blog post.

This afternoon – Thursday, December 9, 2021 – while organizing my inventory of greeting cards, I found a note I had written to myself. You had called me on October 8, 2012 at 19:00 from your new home. You said “The trees and mountain are glorious. But my pain is not going away….”

Even though you were ill, you gave your time to call and to ask about Sasa Southard https://sasasouthard.com and other friends at Women’s National Book Association and San Francisco Writers Conference. How I wish a physician with Dr. Michael Moskowitz’s insight about persistent pain was your physician. The workbook that Dr. Michael Moskowitz co-wrote with Dr. Marla Golden was published only three months after your phone call (in January 2013), however, I didn’t know about it until last year (2020) when I was battling persistent pain myself.

I wish you Bliss, mon amie, and humbly ask you to help more people find Dr. Moskowitz’s and Dr. Golden’s workbook TRANSFORMING THE BRAIN IN PAIN: NEUROPLASTIC TRANSFORMATION

With deep gratitude,

Teresa Jade

TRANSFORMING THE BRAIN IN PAIN: NEUROPLASTIC TRANSFORMATION

written by Michael H. Moskowitz, MD and Marla D. Golden, DO

http://neuroplastix.com

Your Brain On Pain

Why doesn’t the pain stop?

Listen to your body talk.

Use your brain to stop your pain.

Below are chapter / section titles of the workbook:

Dr. Moskowitz’s and Dr. Golden’s Instructions for Using this Workbook

“This worbook has been designed to be helpful for practitioners and people experiencing persistent pain. It is a practical, visual guide to neuroplastic treatment approaches for treating persistent pain.”

“Neuroplastic Transformation provides a model that approaches persistent pain where it transforms from a symptom to disease. It also gives the person experiencing pain’s relentless persistence, a chance to treat it with the same neuroplastic phenomena that created it, restoring balance to pain processing.”

At the end of each section is “Reining in the Runaway Brain” (patients share techniques they use)

http://neuroplastix.com

Sections in the workbook:

pages 4 – 16 Section 1 – Introduction

Brain Facts (page 4); Brain Change (page 5);

Neuroplasticity Definition

New Learning Changes the Brain
The Brain Changes the Body
The Body Changes the Brain

Neuroplasticity Rules
Workbook page 5

What Gets Fired Gets Wired
Use It or Lose It
When You Break ‘Em You Make ‘Em; When You Make ‘Em You Break ‘Em

Fight Fire With Fire
Reverse the Forces That Have Caused Pain to Persist
Restore Normal Pain Responses

R.A.F.T. (page 9)

– Rescue

– Adjustment

– Functional

– Transformation

Persistent vs Acute Pain
Workbook pages 10, 11

Counter-Stimulating Pain
Worbook page 11, 12, 13

Pain Reassigns Brain Cells
Take Back Brain Cells
Use Graphics to Counter-Stimulate Pain

Become Active in Your Own Care
Counter-Stimulate Your Brain

Shrink the Pain Map by Flooding the Brain (page 13)

Push Back Against Pain Spikes and Intrusions
Get Inside Your Own Head
Always Counter-Stimulate Your Pain

Active vs. Passive Treatment

Practice Makes Perfect

Brain is Most Accessible Organ
Avoid Pain; Pursue Pleasure
End Pain’s Tyranny
Reject Pain’s Inevitability

M.I.R.R.O.R. (page 14) MIRROR is:

– Motivation

– Intention

– Relentlessness

– Reliability

– Opportunity

– Restoration

N.O.R.M.A.L (page 14) NORMAL is:

Neuroplastic Optimization and Reduction of Medication for Adaptive Living

Rebalance Pain Processing Circuits
Body and Brain Act Together
Persistent Pain is a Learned Activity

People Taking Back Control of Their Pain (page 16)

pages 18 – 24 Section 2 – Touch

Mom the Neuroscientist – It Takes a Mother’s Touch (page 18)

Hands That See (page 21)

Healing Touch (page 22)

pages 26 – 33 Section 3 - Neuroplastic Brain and Body

NO BRAIN, NO PAIN. Nociception. (page 26)

The Brain Learns Pain; Too Smart for It’s Own Good (page 27)

Brain and Body (page 28)

Fire and Wire … Or Not

Cause and Cure for Pain Persistence (page 29)

pages 35 – 41 Section 4 – Pain Gone Wild

Limbic Activation (page 35)

Pain Makes Pain; Making a Bad Thing Worse (page 36)

Unpleasantness – As if the Pain Wasn’t Enough (page 37)

BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE – Over the Edge – Amygdala and Hippocampus (page 38)

IN THE AMYGDALA – Where the Wild Things Are (page 39)

Pages 43 – 52 Section 5 - Soothing

Oh That Smell; The Nose Knows (pages 47, 48)

BELIEF IS RELIEF (page 49)

Pages 54 – 64 Section 6 - Mood and Pain

Pain and Mood Circuit (page 54)

Relax, Calm, Soothe – GABA to the Rescue (page 55)

Limbic Deactivation – Emotional Calm (page 57)

Access the Brain with THOUGHTS IMAGES SENSATIONS MEMORIES SOOTHING EMOTIONS MOVEMENT BELIEFS (page 58)

[ This wonderful workbook helps me understand just how awesome the beautiful brain is, however, my initial success was due to the coaching I received from Dr. Danielle Rosenman who was trained by Dr. Michael Moskowitz. The techniques helped me "outgrow" persistent pain. ]

Pages 66 – 74 Section 7 - Pleasure – the Antidote for Pain

BLISS – Anandamide (page 69)

WELL BEING – Endorphins (page 71)

ALL WE NEED IS LOVE – Oxytocin (page 72)

Page 75 Section 8 – Conclusion – A New Beginning

Below are names of the writers who were credited for these particular episodes of

The Jack Benny Program which brought healing laughter

Written by Sam Perrin, George Balzer, Al Gordon, Hal Goldman -

James and Gloria Stewart are celebrating their wedding anniversary at a restaurant; Jack has invited himself and has brought girlfriend Mildred who sings (loudly) to Mr. Stewart when the band plays the French song “La Vie En Rose” (according to https://frenchmoments.eu/je-vois-la-vie-en-rose-the-story-of-the-song/ the music was composed by Marguerite Monnot and Louis Guglielmi aka Louiguy, lyrics and also sung by Édith Piaf)

”Jack In Paris” (guests: Mary Livingstone, Maurice Chevalier) – according to https://www.imdb.com this show is Season 7, Episode 14 – Oh to see Arc de Triomphe et la Tour Eiffel!

Written by Sam Perrin, George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon -

“The Income Tax Show” is hilarious! - Season 15, Episode 4; October 16, 1964

“Jack Directs Film” Season 14, Episode 6; Oct. 29, 1963 Jack finds out that Gloria Stewart is in James Stewart’s new movie and wants to congratulate her on the set.

Written by Sam Perrin, George Balzer, Milt Josefsberg, John Tackaberry

Jack Benny Program “The Jackie Gleason Show” is hilarious! Wanting to impress Jackie Gleason, Jack and Rochester are staying in the penthouse suite in the Saint Regis Hotel. Yes, Jack is staying there (at no cost)

Again, thank you to the folks who post them on YouTube.

Thank you for reading Teresa Jade LeYung’s blog post: “Wellness, Laughter, Writers, Jack Benny Program, Dr. Michael H. Moskowitz, Dr. Marla D. Golden, TRANSFORMING THE BRAIN IN PAIN Workbook”

For other posts related to our Beautiful Brains, Pain, and Neuroplasticity in my blog https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog … If you scroll to top of page, look at right side of screen, you’ll see the category “Beautiful Brains Neuroplasticity”. Please click on that category to get all my blog posts pertaining to the topic.

I wish you new vitality, total wellness!

Sincerely,

Teresa_Jade_LeYung__photo_by_Nan_Nooanan_and_Mary E. Knippel