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It doesn't necessarily happen every time you move. This is probably due to DRG involvement53 but it can be reallY disturbing because it just keeps on ringing. We have heard patients say things like 'it's strings pulling', or 'it's water running in my skin', 'it's ants on me', or 'it's prickly'. AB long as you realise that, despite some odd symptoms, you are not going crazy!
The nerves aren't dying or decaying, they are just doing the wrong thing and in many cases they are responding to signals from your brain that tell them that increased sensitivity and better warnings are required.
Many people have altered, damaged and compressed nerves, yet no symptoms. If you have nerve pain, and all the cues e. However, the nerve will still look like it did when it was sending danger signals. Normally, pain initiated by danger messages from the nerves and DRG follows a particular pattern. Injured tissues have In these situations, the brain concludes that a threat reasonably defined healing times.
However, healing times remains and that you need all the protection you can may vary because of associated disease processes, how the get. There are many explanations for why this occurs.
Reflect Many of them involve changes in the way the alarm on the amazing pain stories and a key point from that system itself works. We've covered the changes that section - that damage and healing does not necessarily occur in the periphery in the last section. Changes relate to pain. We know that pain perSists in many cases also happen in the spinal cord and brain. Remember that sensors in the tissues cause danger The nervous system is highly adaptable and will accommodate most demands that it is given.
So, when impulses from inflamed, scarred, weak or acidic tissues keep arriving at messages to be sent to the spinal cord, which in turn cause the release of chemicals into the synapse there pages 36 and Those chemicals activate chemical sensors on the the synapse in the dorsal horn, or when neurones from the next neurone, which open and allow positively charged brain release excitatory chemicals, the neurone in the spinal cord adapts to meet the demand - that is, to get particles to rush into that neurone, bringing it closer to firing.
Remember too that chemicals released from descending neurones from the brain activate different sensors on the neurone. This reduces the excitement of that neurone, and takes it further away from firing. We are in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. See the figure to remind yourself where that is located.
This adaptation begins within seconds of the demand increasing. In the short term, the danger messenger neurone increases its sensitivity to the incoming excitatory chemicals. This means that things that used to hurt now hurt more. This is called 'hyperalgesia'. It also means that things that didn't hurt before now hurt.
This is called 'allodynia'. Hyperalgesia and allodynia just mean increased sensitivity. The sensors then change the way they work so that they stay open longer each time they are opened, which lets more positively charged particles into the danger messenger neurone. Finally, the danger messenger neurone increases its manufacture of sensors for excitatory chemicals, including sensors that 'sleep' until they are needed this is as though a danger memory is placed in the cells.
Your alarm system is really looking out for you. It is operating on sensitivity-enhancing chemicals can swamp the synapse faulty information about the condition of your tissues. This means that just touching the skin, or a main feature in persistent pain. Remember that the pain a slight temperature change , might cause danger is normal, but the processes behind it are altered.
Instead of a nice clear view of in sensitivity: the tissues, there is now a 'magnifier' or 'distorter ' in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord.
One message into the spinal cord is turned into many messages going up to the brain. In this sensitised broken into your tool shed state, the brain is being fed information that no longer a few times and you have reflects the true health and abilities of the tissues at the end to install a super-duper of the neurones. Put another way, the brain is being told alarm system - make it that there is more danger at the tissues than there infra-red as well as motion-activated.
The gain of the system is increased. Brain responses such as movements, thoughts, autonomic and endocrine responses are now based on faulty information about the health of the tissues at the end of the neurone.
One key stroke on the keyboard the tissues such as a P in the tissues creates many P's on the computer screen spinal cord. Perhaps a certain kind or level of music. Let's say you had a 'miscalculation' on your tax return one year. The tax office knows that there is trouble with your accounting. Next time you send in your tax return, all the inspectors scrutinise it carefully and will exaggerate any tiny 'miscalculation' you make.
It's not fair! Every little drip just keeps getting more and more magnified. B4 Remember the regional post office? The post office staff are now in a perpetual state of paranoia - sending danger messages off at will; the post office starts to send messages on behalf of other localities; letters are sent free of charge; the regional sorting office is sending itself letters via that post office. The concept of increased sensitivity is often challenging, but this is what happens in all of us when we are injured.
This increased sensitivity should fade once the damaged structures are under control, anclJor you fully understand what is going on. Is that why the princess feels that pea under all those pain 4 76 The brain adapts and tries to help Smudging the neurotag L et's move up to the brain.
These changes in the spinal start to overlap. An associated change then occurs: areas cord will lead to instant changes in the brain. The same of repeated use get larger. The main changes that occur in the brain are the But don't panic - reflect on the homunculus again pages manufacture of more sensors in the pain ignition nodes 56 and 57 - it is always changing anyway.
So if you kept and of more chemicals in the body to activate the sensors. In this way, area. If you had a nasty accident on a street corner, every the brain reflects the history of inputs. Braille users have time you pass that area you may have a reminder, perhaps larger virtual index fingers71, musicians with painful just a shudder, or maybe even a pain neurotag is non-functional hands may have distortion of the virtual constructed in your brain.
Your brain is looking out for hand in the brain Hopefully you are starting to see how sophisticated this protective mechanism can become. Smudging sounds serious. It probably does reflect changes that are part of a more advanced chronic pain experience. Another change which is known to occur in the outer The good news is that it is reversible. In the same way that brain, the cortex, is 'smudging' - brain areas normally muscles and joints can be made more healthy and robust, devoted to different body parts or different functions, so too can the homuncular arrangements in your brain.
It also leads to persistent changes in chronic. It is like the orchestra in your brain has been sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, playing the same pain tune over and over and over and endocrine, immune and motor systems. These systems can over..
It can no longer playa full repertoire of tunes. Nor combine to perpetuate the pain tune, which we call a can it be creative, curious or seek new musical challenges. Key musicians quit because they have nothing to play. Changes in these systems are discussed later in this section. Other musicians get tired and sick because they play all the time. Some musicians take over others' roles e. The pain tune is not a happy tune. Tours get cancelled as the orchestra stays home. Audiences stop coming.
Record sales drop. You get the picture: the pain starts to dominate every aspect of life work, friendships, family life, hobbies, thoughts, sports, emotions, devotions and beliefs. We wrote earlier that, as humans, we deep', and have a terrific advantage over non-humans because we can wheelchair' are threatening to a brain concerned about plan for events , we can learn quickly from experience and your survival. These thoughts and the fear of certain use logic to predict the future. This means that we can activities, or a fear of re-injury, can increase pain.
This is all very well, but when Thoughts are nerve impulses the system is really sensitive as it is in chronic pain , Through SCientific research, we are now aware of the inputs unrelated to tissue damage , but judged by our brain thought processes which are powerful enough to maintain as dangerous , can be enough to cause pain.
This can a pain stateeg. We call them 'thought viruses'. Some of the happen without you ever being aware of it! In fact, in some patients, just imagining movement can also cause swelling in the painful parteg l Many patients have told us that 'it hurts if I think about it'. This is completely understandable. You are not crazy. In fact, this is very sensible if you remember that your brain has learned to be very good at protecting you from anything that might be dangerous to your tissues.
They are often enough to take you right 'to the edge'. I'm in pain so there must be something harmful happening to my body. We can put a man on the moon, why can't someone just fix this pain for me? I'm staying home, not going out, I'm keeping quiet and out of things. I'm so frightened of my pain and of injuring my bock again that I'm not doing anything!
Even their whiz-bong scanning machine can't find it - it must be bod. I'm not doing anything until all the pain goes. Read through the common features below.
Self-analysis is needed here. The known healing time for Perhaps you have some of them. They may provide a clue tissues involved has long passed.
Is there any reason that that your pain is more related to central nervous system the damaged tissue wouldn't have healed? The pain is spreading Your label There are no fences in the nervous system.
Sensitisation of Because tissues heal, and because your alarm system and the alarm system and brain means the brain is wrongly brain have changed to protect you, diagnoses based on tissue told that more of the body is in danger and the brain processes no longer fit. Often you end up with multiple therefore makes more of your virtual body hurt. Your diagnosis often brain if it wants you to escape. Most of the changes in the depends on where you live and which particular health alarm system aim to increase the frequency of danger professional you see.
Some diagnoses may have been given messages sent to your brain. It is, therefore, sensible for to get you out of the clinic as quickly as possible.
The signs your brain to conclude that the danger level has actually and symptoms of all of these 'diagnoses' can readily be increased. This will make it hurt more. Lots of movements even small ones hurt Each increase in the sensitivity of the alarm system will Because tissues are no longer the main issue, it is often not reduce the amount of movement that can occur before the helpful to seek an understanding of the diagnostic label.
It alarm system stops you from going further. If there is is better to seek an understanding of the particular ongoing inflammation in the tissues, the danger sensors in symptoms which are a feature of your unique presentation. When the Can you identify with any of these commonly orchestra gets really used to playing the pain tune, even heard statements: imagining a movement can produce pain"Sl This is a 'It comes on when I think about it.
You may be able to 'Now there is play with your children for an hour one day but not even 'The pain has a mind pick them up on the next day. Sudden stabs of pain can 'I get lots a 'mirror' pain on the other side of my body. The 'It gets better with a gin and tonic or a vodka. There could be a delay of hours or even days. With this pattern it is likely that the processes There are other threats in life: previous, current underpinning the pain experience are not predominantly and anticipated in the tissues, they are more in the nervous system and Sometimes it is possible to identify physically and brain in a very real, understandable, and manageable way.
Remember, the best way to protect the body is to make it hurt. This is the system which monsters and muggers just to name a few. Normally, adrenaline does a lot of housekeeping in your body for you, for Together with cortisol see next pages example it regulates breathing and the digestive system. When required, the inside of the adrenal glands quickly pours adrenaline into the blood. All of this is extremely useful as you decide whether to fight or fly escape.
With these two systems, adrenaline has system - quickly activated and then returning to normal widespread and important effects. It's all brain driven and up to an hour later once the stressful situation has gone. The blush that comes to your face if you recall perSistently increased levels of adrenaline although something you might have done years ago, is an example of sometimes adrenaline can become depleted. Many a the sympathetic nervous system responding to a memory.
Not enough sleep, body parts and heightened alarm system not enough ongoing repair. Normally, adrenaline is good stuff. The buzz is great, the anger, anxiety and sweating it promotes may be helpful, but don't let it hang around too long. The parasympathetic nervous system Whereas stimulation of the sympathetic system gives rise to a liberation of energy, the parasympathetic is usually more concerned with slowing and conserving energy - it helps digestion, storing of energy, cellular replenishment, and reproduction.
Instead of 'fight and flight', it's 'rest and digest'. Feeling supported and appreciated are likely to shift sympathetically excited people towards the more protective calming parasympathetic state. The parasympathetic system is more active during rest. It works with the sympathetic system but its effects may last weeks or months rather than minutes or hours.
The key bits of anatomy are the stress control areas of the brain pituitary and the hypothalamus and the adrenal glands, which perch atop your kidneys. You will be able to see them in the figure.
I ACTH I Threatening inputs, memories and circumstances back to the brain make the hypothalamus release hormones, which in turn make the pituitary gland release to all tissues hormones adrenocorticotropic hormone or ACTH into the blood. This gland then produces a number of hormones necessary for maintaining a balance in life. A key hormone is called cortisol.
DNEY 87 What does cortisol do? The term 'stress chemical ' is often applied to Persistent altered levels of cortisol can create a cortisol, and it sometimes gets a bad rap.
But few problems, though. Increased cortisol has been remember it is above all a protector. Along with linked to slow healing, loss of memory, adrenaline, cortisol is a chemical that protects depression, despair and a decline in physical you when you are challenged. It slows down body performance Cortisol production changes during the day. It peaks in the early morning, then declines till So if you have just lifted a very heavy, awkward lunch when it rises a little bit and then it is at its weight and hurt your back, or you are in an lowest in the early evening.
Our sensory abilities armed robbery, or you are about to do a parallel this. People with maint ained mathematics exam, you probably have no interest inflammation often have more pain in the evening in reproduction and digestion. And any healing of when cortisol levels are down. However, the systems you will need are muscles to support, run away , and your brain for quick thinking and maybe some endorphin support a brainproduced danger message suppressor.
Whether the threat involves a physical or mental challenge, the emergency increases cortisol production. It's a key player in pain too, although this is quite a recent discovery. It has close links with the cortisol and adrenaline based systems. IACTH I There are immune molecules called cytokines, which are a kind of mobile protective system floating inside the to the b r o i n body. Some cytokines promote inflammation and some try to stop it. When you have the flu there will be more of the pro-inflammatory cytokines around.
If you to the b ro i n ADRENAL GLAND remember your last flu attack, you may recall that as well as fever and lethargy, loss of appetite etc, your movements were a bit more sensitive and occasionally, old pains may have come back to revisit. This is due in part to the pro-inflammatory cytokines. For example, cortisol activates the immune system, the immune system can be stimulated by the sympathetic system, the immune system can signal the brain, the brain activates the cortisol system etc etc.
It is more involved when things get serious or chronic. Immune system responses can be learnt responses The immune system may actually underpin some pain states, such as 'mirror pain', and loss of fine sensibility. Damaged peripheral nerves are particularly reactive to pro-inflammatory What is the complete opposite of a stress response? A hearty laugh in 6. Finally, the immune system, like other systems, can be activated not only by events happening in the tissues but by the brain's interpretation of events.
The immune boosting behaviours This is a good time to talk about the immune boosting behaviours, behaviours that you can use to counteract the processes that can combine to cause pain.
The brain also 'primes' muscles to help you do this. This is great in the short term - you get ready to run away or fight by 'priming' your big long muscles. These muscles are best suited to this job because they can produce a great deal of torque torque is the twisting force that makes joints move , partly because they cross more than one joint and partly because they can shorten a great deal. In the long term, activation of these muscles is not smart because they are not designed to be under constant readiness.
AB a general rule, when these muscles stay active for a long time, they tend to contract and shorten - then they start to feel 'stiff': there is a build up of acid see page 48 , shoulders get achy, back pain travels up your spine, neck pain spreads to the back of your head or across to your eyes.
For risk of injury, or prevent body parts from healing example, back pain causes changes in trunk normally. The changes probably help the brain splint the trunk.
Once new motor - the structures of the spine may be more patterns have been learnt, they can be very hard compressed, or less controlled. Fear or to reverse. But be careful. A clinical nightmare may be waiting.
The more orthodox groups include doctors, surgeons, psychologists and physiotherapists. Slightly less orthodox include chiropractors and osteopaths, and the non-orthodox groups include faith healers and iridologists.
Within each group of health professional, there are factions. For example, one surgeon may fuse your vertebrae together orthopaedic surgeon while another may insert a stimulator on your spinal cord neurosurgeon. So too, there are different kinds of physiotherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, psychologists etc.
There is often argument between and within groups. We are not recommending for or against particular practitioners but suggest that the follOwing guidelines may help: 1. Make sure that any injury or disease which requires urgent medical attention is dealt with.
All ongoing pain states require a medical examination. Make sure that any prescribed help makes sense to you and to your understanding of the problem. Ask the therapist if there are any scientific studies supporting what is proposed. Have ALL your questions answered satisfactorily. Avoid total dependence on any practitioner. You must take control. You need to be careful and in control. In particular, be wary because you are likely to hear or have heard many different explanations for your problem.
This can make it worse 8 5 and add confusion to your problems. Remember that you are the owner of your pain, more than anyone else. In the end, it is you who has the most power to manage and rid yourself of it. Always have goals that are understood by both you and your clinician.
These could be physical, social and work goals which allow some quantifiable way of measuring progress. Good clinicians have numerous qualities. They are compassionate, enthusiastic and informed. They are The skills of the practitioners in the various groups may help you with parts of the pain problem, but we believe that you will be better informed and in control if you understand the science behind your pain state.
They are experts. They assist you in mastering your situation. You, the person in pain, J should also understand these models. We will discuss five current models, which are often used interchangeably. These models should enable you and any clinician with whom you are involved to identify the processes that underpin your pain. We believe that these models should enable identification of any cue that contributes to, ignites, or maintains your pain. The orchestra model distributed processing, virtual body, neurotag model This is the major model on which this book is based.
It acknowledges that even though the processes are draws from across many pain science disciplines including happening in the brain, they manifest themselves in very brain imaging and cellular biology.
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