While performing a bench press more than a decade ago when I was in medical school, I heard a loud click and felt my whole body go limp, and the weights came crashing down. As pain gripped my entire body in a vise, I was rushed to emergency room where I got intravenous painkillers and was told the pain would eventually disappear.
I’m now a doctor, and our traditional approach in medicine has been to find mechanical and anatomic explanations for chronic pain; I was told from the MRI of my back that I had abnormalities so profound for a young person , I had become the dreaded “interesting case” discussed at the radiology department’s weekly conference. My bones were degenerating, and I had multiple damaged discs in my spine.
This is a really big deal: millions of people in the U.S., alone get MRIs and CT scans for back pain, which is the most common cause of disability around the world. Most of these tests are inappropriate since guidelines now recommend against the routine use of imaging for people with back pain.
One of the major reasons why pain becomes immortal in our bodies is how we feel in our minds. People who fear being in pain or are anxious about it are up to twice as likely to develop chronic pain after undergoing an operation. A study from Finland published this April showed that the presence of psychological distress significantly affected the presence or absence of back pain in those with degenerated spines.
Можно думать что угодно, но если ты просквозил затылок или крестец, то поможет мазь финалгон, имеющая химическое начало.
Yes I have some physical injury, but nothing that justifies this degree of pain. Yet the pain is very real. And I can't stop it. At least not yet. You are right, it's my brain trying to protect me, and failing. Keep up the good work.
I have tried to recreate this 'surprise' event, an unplanned walk, but it doesn't work. My brain hears 'walk' in my head and the pain is immediate and as I walk it becomes ever more excruciating with each step. I can feel the nerves lighting up.
I call this involutary pain response. But that doesn't really cover the degree to which my brain tortures me for achieve pain avoidance. My brain likes me to hold still. But I have discovered if I catch it unprepared, meeting a friend by surprise, I can stand pain free.
I gave discovered that my nerves can be set on fire by even the suggestion of an action. I am 70 now, and the it gets worse. My brain prepares for pain not by over coming it, as it did in my youth. It makes pain worse to get me to avoid it. Weird.
It wasn't always so. That's why I can describe my pain in comparison to actual pain event in a world where I was once pain free. I too gave a trigger event. Not the broken bone, or the crushed finger, but a too tight orthodontal event in my braces changed my world for pain.
Over the years I gave been defined as having a 'low tolerance' for pain. However when I describe my pain, cattle proud like, electrical lightening like, it's not how others describe their pain. My back feels as though a huge club has struck it, not once but multiple times.
I gave the old electric discount pain, the newer lower back muscle pain. But most recently a new nerve pain not associated with a known injury. First it was a boil that wouldn't get numb. Then a nerve test I can only describe as torture. Followed by tooth pain, electrical.
I have suffered chronic pain for 31+ years. Chronic pain, for me, has created anxiety (when next, how long, how severe), insomnia, depression, despair, suicidal ideation.
You mustn't expect to be thanked for this notion.
haiderwarraich Great! But not sure that all the numbers from researchers are correct. Don't know why...😳
Don't tell those who have devoted their lives to it.
This idea is discussed in detail in chapter 10 of Barrett’s “ how emotions are made.”
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