Thursday, April 20, 2017

Pain Science Week


Over at the FCF Facebook page I've ran a little pain science dealio that actually started last week but as I completely forgot about Easter, I did half last week and half this week.

Each day I put up a short post with 1 - 2 real fine points in regards to pain science.

If you;ve had pain, or have chronic pain then this is exactly the stuff you need to hear as the current pain treatment model of physio', chiro's etc has little evidence to suggests it does anything for pain, especially once you actually know how pain works.

Here they all are in a nice little blog post for you.

* Pain is normal, personal and always real.
All pain experiences are normal and are an excellent, though unpleasant response, to what your brain judges to be a threatening situation.

* There are danger sensors not pain sensors.
The danger alarm system is just that – there are no pain sensors, pathways or endings.

* Pain and tissue damage is rare
Pain is an unreliable indicator of the presence, or extent, of tissue damage, and either can exist without the other.

* Pain depends on the balance of danger and safety
You will have pain when your brain concludes that there is more credible evidence of danger than there is safety relating to your body, and thus infers the need to protect.

* Pain involves distributed brain activity
there is no single pain center in the brain as pain is a conscious experience that necessarily involves many brain areas across time.

* Pain relies on context
Pain can be influenced by the things you see, hear, smell, taste and touch, the things you, think, believe, do, places you go, people in your life and things happening in your body.

* Pain is 1 of many protective outputs
When threatened, the body is capable of activating multiple protective systems including immune, endocrine, motor, autonomic, respiratory, cognitive and emotional pain, and any of these systems can become overprotective.

* We are bioplastic
While all protective systems can become turned up and edgy, the notion of bioplasticity suggests that they can change back through your lifespan.

* Learning about pain can help the individual and society
Learning about pain is therapy in itself and when you understand why you hurt, you actually hurt less.

* Active treatment strategies promote recovery
Once you understand pain you can begin to make plans, explore different ways to move, improve your fitness, eat better, sleep better and gradually do more.

Let me know your thoughts over at the Facebook page.

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