Breakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended to people with chronic pain, fatigue or RSI as a rigorous but balanced case that pain does not always mean injury.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2019 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec JoeyJoJoJunior · 2019-09 · on “A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”
If you think you suffer from CFS please check out Dr. Howard Schubiner and read his book. [this 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.
Strong rec wonger_ · 2025-05 · on “Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI”
The 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 image). Like, you might hear about Sarno's mindbody connection and think it's total quackery because of the language. Maybe it triggers the BS detector in a lot of us. So listen to the same ideas from other perspectives. The author links to Schubiner's talk on chronic pain, which I heartily recommend as the right balance of rigor and tone: [this video] . Curable helped me too: [LINK] . Click through until you get to the audio sections and give the
Recommends rajlego · 2021-05 · on “The anus is an evolutionary marvel”
If you read some of John Sarno's stuff on psychosomatic pain, it seems highly plausible that most pain is just psychosomatic in nature. [this video] good video on this