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Welcome at ABRAVIT

We are incredibly proud to announce the launch of abravit.com, an accessible website designed to introduce Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT).

For decades, the medical model has treated chronic pain as a permanent physical injury. Yet, clinical trials have completely redefined the space:

  • 66% of participants who underwent PRT became completely or nearly pain-free in just 4 weeks (source).

  • 55% maintained these remarkable recoveries at a 5-year longitudinal follow-up, proving the durability of neural retraining (source).

Unfortunately, a severe shortage of trained clinicians means millions of patients remain stuck on waitlists, during which time their pain pathways become more deeply chronified. ABRAVIT intercepts this cycle by providing information about PRT, a 10-question self-assessment, and a simple brain-retraining practice (Somatic Tracking). In addition, we will be providing courses and releasing publications in the near future.

ABRAVIT helps build a future where evidence-based pain recovery is accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime!

Huibert de Jong - ABRAVIT NORWAY


Your Pain Is Real

You are not making it up

Hey there! If you are living with constant, persistent pain, we want to address you with a message of absolute validation. Your pain is one hundred percent real. You are not making it up, and it is not a product of your imagination. Whether it is a chronic headache, a sore back, or achy joints, your nervous system is registering actual physical sensations of distress. We believe you, we validate your experience, and we are here to help you understand the scientific reality of what is happening inside your nervous system.

Chronic pain is common

Chronic pain affects over 24% to 30% of the adult population in Norway (source1 and source2) and 1.2 billion people worldwide (source).


The Brain Alarm System

A Super Sensitive Smoke Detector

To understand why you hurt, we must look at how your brain processes threats. Your brain possesses an incredible, built-in protection mechanism. It acts exactly like an internal danger alarm system designed to keep you safe from harm.
However, in cases of chronic pain, this alarm system becomes hyper-sensitive. Imagine a smoke detector installed in your kitchen. If there is an active house fire, you need it to scream loudly.

But what if that detector starts screaming every single time you simply toast a piece of bread? The toaster is completely safe, yet the alarm blares anyway. This is the mechanism of neuroplastic pain. Your physical body and tissues are strong and healthy, but your brain is mistakenly misfiring normal, safe sensory signals as active danger.

The Brain Volume Knob

Dialing Down the Misfires

Think of your brain as holding a master volume knob for all physical sensations. When you are stressed, worried, or exhausted, your entire nervous system enters a state of high alert. Consequently, your brain turns that volume knob all the way up to ten.

A harmless, normal physical movement or standard physical sensation that should feel completely quiet is suddenly amplified into a loud, painful scream. This process is a software glitch, rather than a hardware break. 

Your physical body is not structurally damaged.

Your nervous system has simply learned a habit of turning the volume up too high, and this habit can be safely reversed.


How to Rewire Your Brain

You Can Reset Your Alarm

Because your brain learned this habit of feeling pain through neuroplastic changes, it possesses the exact same power to unlearn it. This biological adaptability is known as neuroplasticity. At abravit.com, we teach you how to apply Pain Reprocessing Therapy to retrain your nervous system. By demonstrating to your brain that your body is safe and strong, you can gradually dial that master volume knob back down to zero.

Large-scale clinical studies, including the famous Boulder Back Pain Study published in JAMA Psychiatry, have scientifically proved that this retraining method allows the majority of chronic pain sufferers to become completely pain-free. Let us take this scientific step toward recovery together.