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Some Things You May Not Have Realised About Pain

This is an article written by Richmond Stace, who I met last year on the David Butler lecture on pain.

Pain is multidimensional. Pain is 100% produced by the brain in response to a perceived threat. The brain allocates a location using the cortical maps, hence why we feel pain in our backs or knees. The brain tries to make sense of the situation, scrutinising what is going on on the basis of past experience (learning) and comparing to the information being received from ALL body systems. This is the reason for the term ‘multisystem output’ as a way of describing what is happening when we are in pain.

Read more here: Pain – some things you may not have realised and check out the research articles Richmond has gathered at the bottom of the article.

Whilst we are on the topic of pain, check out our colleague Paul Argent’s thoughts following the David Butler course.