A backache that won't go away, a recurring migraine, a tendinopathy that continues to hurt long after the tissue has healed. These are common cases in clinics and they share something: imaging tests do not explain what the person feels, and despite trying multiple treatments, the pain persists.
Research in recent years has been refining this type of pain, the one that persists when there is no longer an injury to justify it, and has located it in the functioning of the nervous system: the alarm signal remains active even though the danger has disappeared. Neuroscience has called it neuroplastic pain.
ByeByePain, in Barcelona, works along these lines with an approach that combines psychoneuroimmunology with Pain Reversal Therapy. The approach they advocate is that, in these cases, the treatment does not focus on the painful area but on reversing the adaptations the nervous system has created that keep this alarm active.
ByeByePain is formed by Claudia Carol and Vanessa Tejada, psychoneuroimmunologists specializing in Chronic Pain Reversal Therapy (TRD) and persistent symptoms, such as digestive and autoimmune disorders. Among the situations they address are chronic back pain, migraines, chronic pelvic pain, chronic knee pain, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue.
Their main proposal is a training and therapeutic process, designed as a support in which the person understands what is happening to them and learns to intervene, actively participating in the definitive reversal of symptoms, rather than a series of passive sessions.
As with any health issue, the first step remains medical diagnosis: this type of approach is considered once a structural cause requiring other treatment has been ruled out.
