Advanced Sports Pain Management

Playing hurt can be okay. What's not okay is hurting while playing. Discover how to raise your pain threshold in less than 21 days...

Injuries Can Slow You Down

Are you are being slowed down by nagging injuries and chronic pain? As an athlete, you know that the pain associated with old injuries is one of the greatest barriers to your success.

Being able to manage pain can give you a competitive advantage over those who do not know how to apply these valuable skills.

Even if you're not an athlete, the feeling of physical pain can detract from your overall feeling of well-being and can have negative effects on your work performance. It can also prevent you from sticking to a long-term exercise plan. Sound familiar?

A Natural Way to Control Pain

Hypnosis is a safe, natural way for you to increase your pain threshold - ultimately reducing your need for medication. Professional athletes, Olympians, and those fortunate enough to have visited progressive pain clinics have been using hypnosis to manage their pain for years.

According to research done at the University of Iowa and published in the December 2004 issue of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, hypnosis can actually reduce activity in the pain network of the brain.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers were able to see that the processing of the pain signal through the lower parts of the pain network looked the same in the brain images for both hypnotized and non-hypnotized trials, but activity in the top level of the network, which would be responsible for "feeling" the pain, was reduced under hypnosis."