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Breakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google

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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.

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.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “If you think you suffer from CFS please check out Dr. Howard Schubiner and read his book.”

    Talk on healing chronic pain as a mind-body condition.

    JoeyJoJoJunior, 2019-09 · Strong recommendation · in “A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”

  2. “The author links to Schubiner's talk on chronic pain, which I heartily recommend as the right balance of rigor and tone”

    Rigorous yet balanced talk on pain not meaning injury.

    wonger_, 2025-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI”

  3. “good video on this”

    Explains psychosomatic nature of pain.

    rajlego, 2021-05 · Recommendation · in “The anus is an evolutionary marvel”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: chronic pain, mind-body, psychosomatic, rsi, howard schubiner

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