Resources for Chronic Pain Recovery
Curated by Rewire Chronic Pain
These are the tools, books, videos, and brain-based techniques that have helped me and my clients retrain the nervous system and reduce chronic pain and symptoms. Whether you're just starting your brain-based recovery journey or deepening your practice, these resources offer practical, neuroscience-based support for healing. If you're wondering whether your symptoms may be neuroplastic, you can also explore the conditions and symptoms this approach commonly helps with. If you're unsure where to begin, you're welcome to book a free discovery call.
Start Here: Foundational Resources for Chronic Pain Recovery
Book: The Way Out by Alan Gordon, LCSW
A clear and hopeful introduction to Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT). This was the resource that helped me turn the corner on my own recovery—the moment I began to believe change was truly possible.
Podcast: Tell Me About Your Pain (Alan Gordon & Alon Ziv)
Hearing Alan work with real people made recovery feel reachable. This podcast helped me understand that my pain was real—and change was possible.
App: Curable
A neuroscience-based app offering audio lessons, journaling prompts, and guided exercises. The recovery stories had the biggest impact on me—they showed me what was possible.
Workbook: The PRT Workbook by Blackstone & Sinaiko
A hands-on way to practice PRT principles. These exercises helped bring the techniques to life, and I still use many of them.
A clear, engaging animation explaining how chronic pain can continue even after the body has healed, introducing the idea that pain is produced by the brain and nervous system as a protective signal.
Professor Lorimer Moseley explains how the brain can learn pain and continue producing it long after an injury heals—and how retraining the nervous system can reverse persistent pain.
Published Study on Chronic Pain Recovery
Pain Reprocessing Therapy for Chronic Back Pain (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)
A groundbreaking study using fMRI showed that Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) doesn’t just reduce pain—it rewires the brain’s pain pathways. 66% were nearly or fully pain-free after 4 weeks. 98% experienced significant relief, with results holding at one-year follow-up.
Read the full JAMA Psychiatry article.
Practice Tools – Somatic Tracking & Pain Reprocessing Demonstrations
These guided audios and live sessions teach the nervous system safety and help you unlearn pain. Somatic tracking was the single most important tool in my recovery—it bridged the gap between understanding the science and actually healing. If you'd like help learning how to apply these tools to your own symptoms, you can also book a free discovery call.
Audio: Somatic Tracking Using Breath (Alan Gordon)
Gently notice sensations with curiosity to retrain your brain’s response to pain.
Audio: Leaning into Positive Sensation (Alan Gordon)
Learn to focus on ease and pleasant sensations to quiet danger signals.
Video: Live Somatic Tracking & Pain Reprocessing Demonstration (Alan Gordon)
Alan guides a woman with 20-year chronic neck pain through somatic tracking, leading to her first real experience of relief.
Video: Live Anxiety Regulation for Chronic Pain (Alan Gordon)
Alan demonstrates how calming the nervous system and approaching sensations with curiosity can reduce pain signals.
Video: Live Session – Releasing Fear of Standing (Alan Gordon)
A step-by-step session showing how changing the brain’s danger signal around standing allows the client to stand comfortably again.
Ready to Explore Coaching?
If these resources are speaking to you—but you’re unsure how to apply them—I’d love to help. Coaching offers structure, support, and step-by-step tools for retraining the brain and nervous system. You're welcome to book a free 30-minute discovery call to see if this work is right for you.