{"id":215253,"date":"2025-06-02T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/brain-training-game-offers-new-hope-for-drug-free-pain-management"},"modified":"2025-06-02T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:09:12","slug":"brain-training-game-offers-new-hope-for-drug-free-pain-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/brain-training-game-offers-new-hope-for-drug-free-pain-management","title":{"rendered":"Brain training game offers new hope for drug-free pain management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-training-game-offers-new-hope-for-drug-free-pain-management.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A trial of an interactive game that trains people to alter their brain waves has shown promise as a treatment for nerve pain\u2014offering hope for a new generation of drug-free treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The PainWaive technology, developed by UNSW Sydney researchers, teaches users how to regulate abnormal brain activity linked to chronic nerve <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/pain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pain<\/a>, offering a potential in-home, noninvasive alternative to opioids.<\/p>\n<p>A recent trial of the technology, led by Professor Sylvia Gustin and Dr. Negin Hesam-Shariati from UNSW Sydney\u2019s NeuroRecovery Research Hub, has delivered promising results, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jpain.2025.105394\" target=\"_blank\">published in the <i>Journal of Pain<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trial of an interactive game that trains people to alter their brain waves has shown promise as a treatment for nerve pain\u2014offering hope for a new generation of drug-free treatments. The PainWaive technology, developed by UNSW Sydney researchers, teaches users how to regulate abnormal brain activity linked to chronic nerve pain, offering a potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}