Chronic Pain

Learning to relax takes practice, especially when you are in pain, but it is definitely worth it to be able to release muscle tension throughout the body and start to remove attention from the pain.

Chronic pain that results from damage to, or pathological changes of, the peripheral or central nervous system is called neuropathic pain.

Chronic pain is now understood to be a disease. Learn how the body is affected when pain doesn't go away.

Using the mind to control chronic pain through specific pain control techniques may be used alone or in tandem with other pain management therapies.

The Gate Control Theory of chronic pain - is changing the way chronic back pain may be understood, diagnosed and treated.

Pain signals can be of different types (slow or fast), that can travel along different pathways in the brain, and can be influenced by such things as endorphins

In the gate control theory, the experience of pain depends on a complex interplay of these two systems as they each process pain signals in their own way.

The Gate Control Theory of Chronic Pain is based on the premise that the brain blocks out sensations that it knows are not dangerous. This article outlines two cases of this theory in action.

It's important to have a general understanding of the major different types of back pain, because the type of pain dictates the treatment options.

Understanding how pain is defined is important in order to learn how to control it. For various purposes, pain can be separated into acute, chronic and neuropathic pain.