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Posts tagged "pain"
30
Jan
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.
6
Dec
Is Fatigue All in Your Head?
Another great blog post from Todd Hargrove:
”Put these findings all together and a simple picture merges. When the brain receives information from the body indicating that a particular form of exertion is a threat, it decides to shut the activity down. It is surprising to me that such a common sense idea takes so long to gain acceptance, and is ignored all too often.
…Threat not only causes pain, it limits performance. If you want to increase performance, work to reduce threat.
This is why the “no pain no gain” mentality of exercise is so counterproductive, and why giving the brain “good news” about the body should be a primary training strategy.”
4
Dec
Why do we hurt?
Do we actually experience pain, or is it merely illusion?
In this video, Lorimer Moseley explores these questions, and position the pain that we feel as our bodies’ way of protecting us from damaging tissues further. He also looks at what this might mean for those who suffer from chronic pain.
(via TED)
