How can you have pain without injury?
Sometimes, especially in cases with pain has become chronic, the doctors might tell you that they can’t do much more to reduce the pain, or even say that there is no obvious ‘organic’ cause for the pain. This certainly does not mean that the pain is imaginary! The pain is always experienced as real, and the suffering can be considerable. What the doctors mean, is that the brain has changed the way it processes signals coming from the body, and it might be creating a pain experience from milder- or even neutral nerve signals. This is because pain is in effect an output that the brain creates to try to protect you. Over time, the brain needs less and less ‘information’ to warn you about threat by creating a pain experience. Luckily, research suggests that we can re-train the brain to read signals more accurately.
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