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Neuroplastic Recovery Therapyfor Chronic Pain

Pain doesn't have to be managed — it can be reduced, and sometimes resolved

Evidence-based approach for chronic pain and other persistent symptoms that don't stem from structural damage in the body. It rests on a simple but powerful insight: just as the nervous system learned to produce ongoing and persistent pain, it can also learn to turn it down. Approaches like PRT and EAET work with the brain and nervous system, where body and mind meet — so when treating the body or mind alone falls short, a new path to recovery opens.

Yotam Yanai
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Who am I?

Nice to meet you, I'm Yotam

A Physical Therapist (B.PT) specializing in pain care and in vestibular, neurological, and orthopedic rehabilitation. I work in a Day-Rehabilitation center and an integrative clinic for Post-Trauma care at Reut Rehabilitation Hospital, Tel Aviv, alongside a private clinic in Ma'agan Michael. Over the years I've trained and specialized in research-based methods for treating pain — among them PRT, EAET, trauma-informed biofeedback, and mindfulness. I also lecture and run workshops for professionals on pain and rehabilitation.

I BELIEVE in people, and in our remarkable capacity to create change.
I BELIEVE every person deserves personal care and hope grounded in science and research.
I BELIEVE chronic pain is not a life sentence — and that even after a long time, it's possible to change it, to feel different, and to return to a fuller life!

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What I Treat

My approach

Pain isn't a measure of damage — it's the output of the brain's protection system

Pain is produced by the brain automatically and outside conscious control, depending on the level of danger the brain perceives — not necessarily on the amount of damage in the body. In chronic pain, this protection mechanism can stay active long after the tissue has healed. Neuroplastic Recovery Therapy helps the nervous system tune down this hypersensitivity, step by step, and return to a calmer, safer state — so pain and other symptoms ease, and function and quality of life return.

Resources Library

A Library of Resources — on Chronic Pain and Recovery

Below is a library of trustworthy resources on chronic pain and neuroplastic symptoms — organized by diagnosis and topic, so you can quickly find what's relevant to you.

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Accessible, research-based writing about pain, the brain, and the mind-body connection — for patients and professionals.

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Patients Share

*Translated from Hebrew

For almost a year I suffered constant back pain that radiated down my leg. An MRI diagnosed a herniated disc pressing on a nerve. I tried injections, massages, physiotherapy, and a chiropractor — which barely gave any relief. Yotam was the first to recognize that the herniation and nerve compression weren't causing my pain at all (they were actually on the side of the leg that didn't hurt — there was no nerve compression on the painful side!). After 2 sessions, once I understood the brain's pain mechanism that was so active in me, I started to feel relief for the first time, and it grew over several weeks with the work and the exercises until I had no pain at all. I went back to working, running, lifting my kids, and living a normal life. Thank you so much for everything 🙏🏼
A., 36 · Chronic Back Pain

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