Pain: Prevention, Management, or Therapy?
The first step to successful pain relief begins with an honest determination of your expected outcome. Is the search for injury prevention, pain management, or therapeutic relief of existing pain?.
One of the primary functions of pain is to alert the body to potential danger. Pain is a warning mechanism that protects an organism by influencing it to withdraw from harmful stimuli; it is primarily associated with injury or the threat of injury.1 Logic might imply that the threat of injury should be enough to tell the body to automatically pull away from the harmful stimuli, right?
Unfortunately, chronic pain does not elicit that same kind of “hand on a hot stove” reaction. Chronic pain is more complex. It is more than a sensation or the physical awareness of pain; it also includes perception and the subjective interpretation of the discomfort...
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One of the primary functions of pain is to alert the body to potential danger. Pain is a warning mechanism that protects an organism by influencing it to withdraw from harmful stimuli; it is primarily associated with injury or the threat of injury.1 Logic might imply that the threat of injury should be enough to tell the body to automatically pull away from the harmful stimuli, right?
Unfortunately, chronic pain does not elicit that same kind of “hand on a hot stove” reaction. Chronic pain is more complex. It is more than a sensation or the physical awareness of pain; it also includes perception and the subjective interpretation of the discomfort...
Click Here to Read More