PART 5: Re-Thinking A Movement Based Approach to Pain We’ve been talking a lot about pain in this article series. And from our discussions so far hopefully one thing is clear…Pain is far more than a simple reflexive response to tissue damage or injury. In fact, we now know pain is not a sensory input […]
PAIN: A Modern View of Why We Hurt (PART 4: Operant Conditioning and Pain)
Part 4: The role of operant conditioning and pain We’ve been talking about pain. In Part 3 of this article series we introduced the the idea that the brain can “learn to hurt”. Through Classical Conditioning the brain has the potential to create fear-avoidance beliefs and behaviors. But before we leave this topic we also […]
PAIN: A Modern View of Why We Hurt (PART 3: Fear, Learning, and Pain)
PART 3: Fear, learning, and pain From an evolutionary perspective, pain is a meant to protect us. It’s a tool your brain can call upon to help promote behaviors deemed most beneficial to survival of the organism. These were the key topics we covered in Part 2 of this article series. But viewed through this […]
PAIN: A Modern View On Why We Hurt (Part 2: Pain and the Brain)
Part 2: Pain and the Brain So we’ve been talking about Pain. More specifically, we’ve been trying to understand what causes pain? The hope here being a better understanding of pain will lead to more effective treatments. In Part 1 of this article series we discussed the shortcomings of traditional approaches to musculoskeletal care. There […]
PAIN: A Modern View On Why We Hurt
Part 1: Re-thinking The Traditional View of Pain At first glance pain seems like a straightforward process. You stub your toe or break a bone and it hurts. This is how most people understand pain. It’s consistent with the patho-anatomical view that holds tissue damage or pathology as the source of pain. Of course, few […]
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