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Do you have a lingering injury or persistent pain that hasn't resolved after months or years of treatment?
If you're like the typical injured athlete, you probably wake up every day wondering how limiting your symptoms will be... OR you are immediately greeted by the same old symptoms, which have become your unwanted companions. You feel defeated and helpless... and you have every reason to.
This injury and pain have robbed you of the life that you once dreamed of, and nobody seems to be able to give you a solution.
What's worse, you went from being very active to not even being able to do basic tasks without pain.
At Pain Free Comeback, we're here to tell you that it's NOT time to give up.
The reason why you're still in pain isn't because your body is damaged beyond repair - it's because you haven't been told what is causing your pain and what to do about it!
But what if there was a proven approach that you could start implementing today?
Pain Free Comeback is a mindbody, brain-based program designed for athletes battling lingering injuries and/or persistent pain. We empower you to return to physical activities pain free, reduce mental pressure, and achieve next-level athletic performance. No drugs, stretching, diets, or physical exercises required!
Research has shown that sports injuries can easily transition into chronic pain - whether or not the underlying injury has healed.
Our brain-focused mindbody intervention has been scientifically proven to work, no matter how long you've been suffering with symptoms, because it helps you deal with these underlying factors.
Unlike typical pain programs, Pain Free Comeback is NOT a pain management program. Our focus is on ensuring your full, pain-free return to the sports and physical activities you love.
We achieve this by working with the brain's neuroplasticity, thus reprogramming both body and mind to move pain free.
The Pain Free Comeback Program combines the 20+ years of insights and techniques that we've gained as certified coaches, athletes, former pain sufferers, and students under some of the top pain doctors, pain psychologists, and sports medicine physicians in the world.
Pain Free Comeback focuses on addressing the root causes that are fuelling your chronic symptoms, reconditioning your brain to change the negative patterns that have developed (through no fault of your own!).
Chronic stress, fear of symptoms, believing your body is 'broken' and emotional distress can cause muscle tightness, spasms and other physiological changes that eventually cause the pain you are experiencing on a daily basis. The reason it doesn't go away is because the same brain pathways creating the symptoms keep firing.
In Pain Free Comeback, we tackle each of these potential sources one at a time, and help you work with your brain to develop healthier patterns. As you start to send different signals through new habits and learn how to release negative emotions in a healthier way while cultivating more peace and relaxation, your brain will eventually stop firing the usual pain response.
It's been the case for thousands of others - and it WILL be for you too - you just need to stick with us for 8 weeks!
Read
The Lesson Text
Understand an overview of key concepts, studies, practices, and more to set the stage for your healing
Write
In Your Workbook
Complete the exercises in your personal printed or digital workbook, designed to apply the lesson to your personal situation
Listen
To the Audios
Unique and powerful meditations that will take your learning and healing to the next level
> Change your understanding of pain and injury so you can identify the real reasons behind why your symptoms have persisted
> Break free of the conditioning process that fuels the majority of chronic symptoms by adopting new, healthier habits that help the brain unlearn the pain response
> Examine your stressors and reframe your athletic identity to reduce mental pressure
> Regulate the nervous system to make it easier to shift out of chronic stress, thus releasing accumulated muscle tension from your body
> Dial down fear levels and return to physical activity - without feeling like you're battling your own body all the time!
> Leave you with tools, practices and wisdom you can carry with you for the rest of your life - and so much more!
> 11 comprehensive video lessons accessible from any device
> Essential bite-size summaries of every lesson's key takeaways
> A comprehensive fillable workbook containing 27 guided exercises (downloadable, printable and editable)
> Over a dozen Brain Retraining, Meditation, and Nervous System Regulation Recordings
> Access to Miriam & Alec to answer your questions as they arise
> A growing community of to fellow learners to feel supported on your Comeback Journey
What our clients are saying:
The Pain Free Comeback Program was made for injured athletes who have experienced slow recoveries, poor treatments results, and persistent symptoms. We use the term 'athlete' loosely - you may be a pro athlete or simply someone who wants to get back to family walks. Either way - this is for you.
This Program won't be a fit for all individuals. It's NOT for you if:
You aren’t open to the idea that your brain has a role to play in the generation of your symptoms
You believe you can’t get better
You’re looking for someone or something to 'fix' you
You don't want to put in the time or effort
This program is not a passive treatment, like taking a medication. It requires your active involvement in order to eliminate symptoms and take control of your life. This program requires about two hours per week consistently to see real results. If you don’t feel like you can commit to that, then this program isn’t for you.
While everyone heals on their own timeline and in their own way, we recommend 20 - 30 minutes three-to-four times per week. That involves reading the lessons, watching the videos, doing the written exercises, and listening to the audios, and applying this work in your daily life.
The best part is you'll be able to apply these concepts to activities in your daily live that you're already doing.
There is a mountain of scientific research and clinical trials to support the Pain Free Comeback approach. Publications on neuroplastic/mindbody treatments have been featured in publications like the Journal of the American Medical Association, and feature work from clinical professionals at Harvard, NYU, University of Colorado, Michigan State, Wayne State, the US Veterans Administration (VA) and others. We have summarized some of this work below.
The first main proponent behind a mindbody approach to chronic pain was the doctor of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University (NYU), named Dr. John E. Sarno. Sarno is famous for writing books and giving lectures that have healed tens of thousands people from years of chronic pain, sometimes in a matter of days and weeks!
Dr Sarno based his pain treatment on observation, and helped patients link the physical tension in their bodies to emotional tension. Since his time, various studies in the fields of Rheumatology, Pain Psychology and Pain Management have proven that traumatic events or periods of chronic stress - especially trauma in childhood - significantly contribute to the likelihood of developing chronic pain (Karen P. Nicolson et. al., 2023, Crofford L.J, 2015, Arne Wyns et. al., 2023).
Since Sarno's findings, there has been additional research using neuroimaging linking real physical changes in the brain to an increased pain response, proving the now established fact that there is always brain involvement in the generation of chronic pain. The Boulder Study that took place in 2021 also revealed that chronic pain patients who were educated on the mindbody connection and who were taught Psychological techniques for chronic pain had way more success in becoming pain free or nearly pain free compared to those who took a Placebo or Conventional Treatment (Yoni K. Ashar et al., 2022). At the end of the trial 66% of those patients who followed the mindbody approach were pain free or nearly pain free, compared to 20% randomized to placebo and 10% randomized to usual care. We teach the same techniques (and more!) in our Pain Free Comeback Program to make sure that no stone is left unturned.
Recently, another study has shown that almost 90% of back and neck pain sufferers had neuroplastic pain - which means pain generated by neural circuits in the brain. This was in spite of 97% of sufferers having structural abnormalities, which proved to have nothing to do with their pain! (Howard Schubiner et. al, 2023).
Pain Free Comeback aims to help you resolve lingering injuries and persistent symptoms for which you haven't found permanent relief. The list of diagnoses that are treatable is very long.
That includes but is certainly not limited to: disc herniations, ruptures, bulges and impingements, scoliosis, tendonitis (tennis and golfer's elbow), RSIs, plantar fasciitis, sciatica, piriformis syndrome, rotator cuff, knee or ankle 'injuries' that haven't 'resolved' after months of therapy, migraines, as well as more widespread pain conditions like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and CRPS.
In addition to painful symptoms, those who undertake this work can also experience relief from other digestive and vestibular conditions like IBS, acid reflux, food sensitivities, tinnitus, vertigo and other symptoms that haven't resolved with conventional or alternative treatments.
Before starting the Pain Free Comeback Program, it's important that you’ve ruled out serious medical conditions that require urgent treatment (cancers, tumors, infections, etc.)
Yes, we offer optional 1:1 coaching with Miriam or Alec for an additional fee. We also provide personalized written guidance by responding directly to questions on the course curriculum page, which is included in the program cost.
We’re confident that you’ll see results from the Pain Free Comeback Program. That’s why we offer a risk-free 30-day money-back guarantee. Simply contact us within 30 days and we’ll give you a full refund.