Positives

• In a 198-person RCT, app users showed significant improvements in pain severity and pain interference versus controls PMC RCT.
  
  
• A Long COVID patient on a Portland clinic's program said pain-reprocessing work via Curable cut her widespread pain dramatically within weeks KGW News.
  
  

Negatives

• A qualitative analysis of app users found that perfectionist patients who journaled for hours daily actually flared their pain rather than easing it PMC qualitative study.
  
  

Hurdles & Side Effects

• Reviewers note the program's framing that pain is a brain false alarm can feel invalidating to long-haulers with measurable physiological drivers PMC qualitative study.