Chronic Pain & the Brain

NeuroFitness: week 2

The neuroscience of pain has demonstrated that the causes of chronic pain may be different from the causes of acute pain after injury and may in many cases reside in the brain.
Alan Gordon

Higher-level brain centers associated with mood, memory, and long-term planning can block pain or enhance it, drive recovery, or make pain chronic.

The Mystery of Chronic Pain

“We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. “ Elliot Krane talks about the complex mystery of chronic pain and reviews the facts we’re just learning about how it works and how to treat it.”

By Elliot Krane

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Tame the Beast

Pain scientists are starting to think differently about persistent (chronic) pain and its causes, and they’re making exciting discoveries – like how you think about your pain can change the way it feels.

In this video, Professor Lorimer Moseley explains how pain works and provides new approaches to help reduce your pain.