From Pain to Possibility: Bonus Content
- FSPM Institute

- Jul 19
- 5 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
When the panel ended, the questions kept coming. More arrived than we could hold in the time we had together, and that felt worth honoring.
So we brought some of the questions that didn't make it into the live conversation back to our panelists. Below are their follow-up answers, shared by Mel Pohl and Ragna Reiske.
From Pain to Possibility gathered Jan Winhall with pain experts Les Aria, Mel Pohl, and Ragna Reiske for a conversation about how the nervous system shapes some kinds of persistent pain, and what can begin to shift when pain is understood as a protective response.
How do you tell what is neuroplastic pain and what isn't?
Mel pointed to a set of questions used by the Pain Psychology Center to help explore whether pain may be neuroplastic. No single one confirms anything on its own. Taken together, they can open a useful conversation with a clinician who knows this territory. He noted signs like:




