Appreciate the update! It's great to know that you've pinpointed possible themes. I'd like a copy of the thesis please. Furthermore, given your role as a researcher, I have an unrelated question. I read a lot of research studies (and reviewed some of [them](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/15dltbl/megacollection_tips_to_improve_stuttering_from/)) to extract tips. I apply these to my stuttering with the aim of natural recovery. I completed various steps (desensitizing stuttering, building tolerance against triggers, dissociating triggers like anticipation, unlearning struggle or stutter behaviors/mindset, replacing unhelpful behaviors with deliberately instructing motor functions, unlearning to prioritize impaired motor plans, stopping overreliance on the execution threshold instead of reducing it etc). In my current stage in the process of attempting stutter recovery, I feel a neck pain (like a burning feeling) so strong that I can pass out from it - although I never passed out from it in my life, which is due to inhibiting motor execution (so that the process of sending motor commands is not initiated, or motor programs are not activated) - resulting in halting of speech movements. I only feel a neck pain, if I choose to instruct articulation while relaxing my neck muscles. I have come to the conclusion, that right now, I only choose to stutter in order to reduce this neck pain (mind you, I was never consciously aware of this pain in my life until the last 5 months, likely due to blaming "anticipation" and "experiencing the inability to execute speech movements"). Because of these steps that I took: (a) I removed the meaning of anticipation, and (b) I accepted (say acknowledged) that the experience of inability to initiate motor movements doesn't exist, and this was actually the neck pain - I finally became aware that I inhibit motor executions to reduce this neck pain. The neck pain, as far as I understand and have mindfully observed, is simply a body response that I - during stuttering development - associated with 'instructing articulation' for the reason that I act like a person who stutters (which is a perfectly valid reason for me to be honest). (a sidenote, future research studies could investigate if this "learned" associated neck pain is at the root of motor inhibition (at least regarding what humans can control - in a subset of PWS). So, that's the backstory. Now back to my question: Are there any research studies on PWS who stutter to reduce neck (or head) pain? (without applying distraction) Which health professional could I ask this question: How would I go about unlearning or dissociating this neck pain from instructing articulation? (for example, SLPs specialized in stuttering don't have knowledge about this)