Actor/Producer Vince Vaughn and acclaimed pioneers in neuroscience, medicine and psychology, are featured in a newly-released documentary, “Changing Your Mind: Chronic Pain and The Brain,” analyzing how the brain could be the solution to treating chronic pain without requiring meds or surgery.

Released in October 2022, the documentary short was directed by Grammy-nominated director Alison Chernick and produced by TheMindBody.Org Founder Marjorie Heule, whose goal is to disseminate empirical research findings about chronic pain.

In the documentary, Vaughn, Comedian Howard Stern, Journalist John Stossel, and retired Sen. Tom Harkin, who chaired the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee during office, along with a team of world-renowned medical professionals affirm psychological treatments have been proven to unlock chronic pain suffering, sharing similar viewpoints as the late Dr. John Sarno, professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, and attending physician at the Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Medical Center.

“We are failing patients with chronic pain,” Dr. Ira Rashbaum, clinical professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Rusk Rehabilitation-NYU Langone Health, said of conventional means to treat chronic pain, such as surgery and opioids. He studied with Dr. Sarno for 20 years to treat patients with mindbody pain disorders. “The back pain industry is a multi-billion dollar program and if this mindbody pain disorder were more conventionally accepted it may have some negative economic repercussions.”

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