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Understand your body’s pain - 5 Question Quiz

7/26/2018

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Do you understand your body's pain?
Take this 5 question quiz and find out! 
  1. True or False: Pain only occurs when you are injured?
Many injury and disease states may or may not experience pain.  It is estimated that 40% of non painful individuals have a bulging disc on MRI.  The opposite is also true.  Many people suffer from significant pain and no injury has occurred and no disease process can be identified as the culprit. 
Also it is important to know that all tissues heal at a relatively predictable rate even if there are other factors that might slow healing.  Pain is often not very well correlated with how much tissue damage has occurred. 
 In short this statement is False  

     2. True or False:  In patients with chronic pain the central nervous system becomes more sensitive to danger messages?
When you have nerves that are extra sensitive they send information to the spinal cord and then on to the brain so something can be done about it.  This system is designed so the brain can interpret the messages from the nerves and determine what action needs to take place such as stopping movement of that area.  When these messages continue to be sent from the nerves then the spinal cord and the brain become more sensitive to these messages and may start to interpret them as more intense pain.
Think about this analogy:  A CEO of a company gets reports from each of his departments regarding how they are functioning.  If the CEO is consistently getting reports from a department that is alarming, the CEO will start to pay closer attention to what is going on and also subsequent reports from his director.  The brain and the spinal cord function the same way.
This statement is True

         3. True or False:  The body tells the brain when it is in pain? 
The body is only capable of sending pain messages to the brain from special pain receptors.  The brain then interprets the signals and determines whether the output should be pain. 
A good example of this would be the following:  A person crossing the street sprains an ankle and falls into the street.  A bus is then noticed to be coming towards the person who has fallen.  Because the danger of the bus is greater than the ankle sprain; the brain will likely not produce any pain in the foot because the oncoming bus is a greater threat.  So this means that all pain is in the brain and that is exactly where it is supposed to be.
False!

         4. True or False:  Chronic pain means that an injury hasn’t healed?  
Many people have continued pain long after the injury has healed.  We know that rate at which some tissues heal and this is fairly constant for most people though there are some variables that can slow or speed the process. 
Look at the patient that was in a motor vehicle accident 6 months ago and is still having neck pain.  They have had diagnostic testing that was negative and they have restored the  neck motion to pre-injury levels but are still complaining of pain.
This is a common phenomenon and has to do with heightened sensitization of the nerves that is not related to tissue damage.
False

       5.  True or False:  You can calm your nerve pain on your own without medication?  
Of course you can.  This is the whole point of physical therapists treating chronic pain.  Here is a number of potential treatments though the list is certainly not exhaustive.
  1. Aerobic exercise:  The evidence for this is significant.  There is not a cookie cutter approach exercise and that is why you need a professional to control it.
  2. Diet:  I would direct you to a dietician for specifics here but I can say that a healthier diet with less processed foods and a regular eating schedule would undoubtedly help health and possibly pain
  3. Relaxation and Meditation:  These things can help with sleep and stress which both have been linked to decreasing pain and improving overall health.
  4. Sleep Hygiene:  There is research to support the need of 7-8 hours of sleep per night.  It is also well documented that people with chronic pain often have sleep disturbance.  There are a number of different techniques that can be used to improve sleep including the aforementioned relaxation and meditation.
  5. Socializing:  Meeting friends can help take the mind off of pain and give people things to look forward to.  Taking the attention of the brain away from pain is beneficial and improves quality of life.
  6. Humor:  Watch a movie that you know to be funny!  People in pain do not laugh as much as others and laughing has been shown to help the immune system
  7. Manual Therapy:  We have to be careful here because we don’t want anyone to think that a medical professional laying hands on them is going to fix them.  There are techniques that can decrease sensitivity of nerves and have dramatic effects on pain.  Therapists need to be cautious about making patients reliant on manual techniques
  8. Goal Setting:  This is one of the most important aspects of treating chronic pain.  Often patients don’t set any goals or there goals are not appropriate and reasonable.  A therapist can work with patients to set attainable goals.  Patients with chronic pain need to see little victories or wins to keep them motivated but the goals must be a stretch so that they are really accomplishing something that is significant.
 
If you have further questions about chronic pain please don’t hesitate to contact us and let us be a reference in your journey to become pain free.
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John Oxley, PT, DPT,
​Cert. MDT, CSCS​
If you would like to know more or schedule an appointment with our Physical Therapy team call the number below.
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Mia Evans link
5/5/2022 05:22:58 am

Thanks for pointing out that the tissues would heal at the right pace along with other factors that might affect it. I guess we need to get my dad checked for a Genesys hospital physical therapy session this year to achieve that. It's because of the pain in his lower back which might be caused by nerve issues after not having the best lifestyle when he was younger.

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Motorized Blinds Erie link
9/21/2022 06:08:05 am

Thank you ffor writing this

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