Neuroplastic TherapyEvidence-based approach to chronic symptoms

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1What is neuroplastic therapy?Definition, mechanism & causes 2The history of the therapySarno, Schubiner, Schechter, Clarke & others 3Are my symptoms neuroplastic?The FIT criteria 4How is it applied?The five steps 5TechniquesBreathing, somatic tracking, imagery 6Conditions that may benefitList with references 7Success storiesRecovery testimonials by condition 8Bibliography & documentationRCTs, neuroscience & references 9Contactinfo@neuroplastictherapy.gr
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What is neuroplastic therapy?

Neuroplastic therapy is a studied, evidence-based treatment for conditions that arise from abnormally formed neural circuits in the subconscious of our brain.

These circuits perpetuate our symptoms and drastically reduce our quality of life. Everyone, to some degree, has such symptoms — but for some they are a daily torment.

The key to understanding them is neuroplasticity: the brain's ability to change, to create new connections and to strengthen or weaken existing ones according to experience. Thanks to it we can learn a language or a musical instrument. But through this very same mechanism the brain can also "learn" and entrench pain or other physical symptoms, even when there is no (longer) tissue damage.

Important: Neuroplastic symptoms are absolutely real — they are not "in our imagination". The pain and symptoms are genuinely produced by the brain and spinal cord. It is just that the cause is not damage to a tissue, but the excessive, "learned" activation of neural circuits.

How are these circuits created?

Abnormal neural circuits are usually created by:

Viral infectionse.g. after COVID-19 or other viral illnesses
Medicationsor withdrawal from medications
Psychological traumarecent or from childhood
Repressed emotionsespecially anger and fear

The brain, in a state of alarm, interprets neutral body signals as "danger" and produces pain or symptoms as a warning. Over time, this circuit becomes automatic and self-sustaining — a vicious cycle of fear and symptoms. Neuroplastic therapy targets exactly this cycle: it teaches the brain that the body is safe, so that the "danger circuit" is weakened and replaced by a "safety circuit".