Science
How your brain creates pain – and what we can do about it – BBC Focus Magazine
Margee Kerr and Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, authors of Ouch!, explain what pain is and how we can trick the brain into creating its own pain relief.
Most of us tend to think that pain is the product of injury or damage to tissue the knife that slipped, the slipped disc from too much heavy lifting, the babys giant head. And theres a good reason for that: pain, as lived experience has taught us, is an essential warning system, an alarm that sounds whenever were experiencing tissue damage or are about to.
But thats not all that pain is. Sometimes that alarm isnt giving us accurate or meaningful information; sometimes its just a bit behind.
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