children who have chronic pain has suggested that ACT training can help prevent pain from becoming permanently ingrained. Several world-class pain centers, such as the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (where the Nobel Prizes are given), use ACT extensively with children. That work has shown that ACT appears to reduce felt pain more noticeably with children than adults, perhaps because pain is less dug in neurobiologically and psychologically with children. New evidence suggests that the same might happen with adults if we deploy ACT at the right time in acute pain situations, before they
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