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What You’ll Learn   ●     Why pain can continue even when tests look normal ●     How neuroplastic pain relief works in real life, not just on paper ●     What working with a pain doctor in Los Angeles, CA actually feels like ●     Why tension headaches often respond better to understanding than force   Pain Isn’t Always What We’re Told It Is   Most people come to us tired.   Not just physically tired. Mentally tired. Tired of appointments, scans, and explanations that never

Chronic pain has a way of convincing people that something in their body must be broken, a disc out of place, a joint deteriorating, a muscle that never recovered. Yet when you study long-term pain closely, especially in clinics like ours at MindBody Medicine, a different pattern starts to emerge. Many patients arrive with scans that show nothing alarming, yet their pain is relentless, sometimes years deep. What they’re actually experiencing is the brain doing what it believe

For years, medicine treated pain as a purely physical problem, something to be cut out, numbed, or braced. Yet millions of people have learned the hard way that even after surgeries, injections, or clean MRI scans, the pain doesn’t always leave. That’s because the brain, in its stubborn brilliance, sometimes keeps sending danger signals long after the threat is gone. This is the foundation of neuroplastic pain relief: retraining the brain to quiet those false alarms and stop

Type T …. And Your Neuroplastic Pain Recovery   At a recent conference, there were questions about the “Type T” personality. What is it?  What does it mean?  How does it help us to know this?  Where did the name come from?   First, credit to Dr. John E. Sarno for his pioneering work in elucidating personality factors that often are often associated with mind-body or neuroplastic disorders.  He noticed and wrote about individuals who are hard on themselves, people pleasers, hi

Finding a doctor who really listens is rare. And when you’re dealing with chronic pain, stress-related health issues, or just the slow accumulation of small aches and fatigue, it can feel impossible. That’s where Los Angeles primary care at MindBody Medicine makes a difference. This isn’t a place that checks boxes or rushes you in and out. Here, the work starts by understanding the person as a whole, not just the symptoms they bring through the door. Many patients come after

Dr. Schechter talks about neuroplastic symptoms in an interview Someone asked me today, "You've been on a lot of podcasts, TV interviews,...

Pain and Your Fears I have been treating patients with pain for decades.  Nearly every patient with chronic pain (more than six months of...

Over time, with chronic pain, people begin to think about their body as a "house of cards". A fragile structure that can easily be...

Always exciting to offer something new to the world. I wrote a MindBody Workbook for Teens in 2019 and I worked, along with a teacher...

Moving my office. Change in inevitable, but good things are happening. TMS intensive programs. More self-pay model.