Neurosciences in the fight against chronic pain

Chronic pain may imply a significant loss in the quality of life For the person, being a condition that per se It is an extra packaging affects the different fields in which the person develops, such as interpersonal relationships, academic performance, at work represents an important cause of work casualties, impacting finance, because The comprehensive treatment of chronic pain itself involves great costs, They can even be greater than those of other conditions presented by the patient.

Content

• Studies on pain and its genesis
• Chronic pain and central sensitization (SC)
  • Another "invisible" disease: chronic pain
• A POST LOVE: Chronic pain
  • • Links

Studies on pain and its genesis

Min Zuho (2018), in a study conducted at the University of Medicine of Toront those associated with chronic pain present Symptom modulation by movement, So the patient may be experiencing a lot.

Min Zuho conducted experiments with mice and rats, discovered that the frontal lobe of the brain is involved in the transmission of pain into the spine, he said: “When you have an excessive anxiety, neurotransmitters are released that end up causing pain in the spine, it can Starting to treat ordinary sensations as painful ”, deduces that this can explain that emotional suffering physically causes pain, a person who has a lot of anguish can manifest chest pain intensely, for example.

Chronic pain and central sensitization (SC)

The International Association for Pain Study (IASP), describes it as an "unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with a real or potential injury". Contributes to the transformation of sensory information into electrical impulses, to What a painful feeling beyond its cause. Chronic pain is the one that in a latent or persistent way is manifested for more than three months.

Transmission routes can be sensitized so that they cause pain to continue, numerous experimental tests show that A painful stimulus of great intensity can be a reason for a series of functional and anatomical alterations of the central nervous system (CNS).

Another "invisible" disease: chronic pain

Have you been told that the physical pain you truly experience is psychological because they could not detect their origin? Pain is important and should be taken into account for optimal management, In the case of chronic pain, algic paintings are not a psychological issue only in most cases, when the patient experiences pain, neuroimaging tests show how The way in which peripheral sensory information is managed and processes.

In most of the pains that endure through a long time, the central awareness (SC), characterized by the presence of spontaneous or persistent pain, propagation of the affected regions and qualitative sensory disorders such as hyperalgesia and allodynia. Hyperalgesia It is a perception of amplified pain against certain stimuli against a painful stimulus. The allodynia It implies a pain response to certain stimuli that under normal conditions are not painful.

What pains of pain did you keep in your body? Chronic pain is a memory that endures After an injury or without it, central sensitization (SC) can intensify pain, even when there is no damage in tissues.  The fact that pain is regulated by the brain, does not mean that pain is "psychological", Chronic pain is real and experienced by the patient, represents a right (World Health Organization, 2017) and must be treated.

Recall that the brain is like the great command central, what happens there has repercussions on somatic aspects. Many people have died suffering a terrible chronic pain, generally associated with other conditions, but not only with terrible discomfort in their bodies, they were also immersed a long time in confusion and suffering, which led them to irresponsible behaviors with their health and some of them They ended in suicide.

The depression It is the psychopathology with the highest prevalence among the population of patients with chronic pain, both conditions must be treated, because together they can incapacitate the person, even when this is potentially capable of doing many activities successfully. When you experience pain intensely, it is natural to experience anxiety, sadness, irritability, anger and even aggressiveness (fishman, 2000), it is common to feel confused, especially when experts still cannot offer you something that completely relieves it.

If someone you appreciate or you have felt like this for a long time, I want to tell you that you do not have to try to carry this load only, recent investigations show that it is possible to reduce the perception of pain affecting psychological factors, if you have felt like this during A long time, perhaps it is time to seek psychological help, the lack of emotional regulation, pathological anxiety and too much stress can exacerbate pain, work on the management of psychological aspects of your person can seek greater quality of life.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of brave people who are overcoming it.". Hellen Keller

A POST LOVE: Chronic pain

There are several classifications of chronic pain, according to different clinical criteria. Chronic pain has comorbidity with many conditions that are also increasing globally, so WHO (World Health Organization) has cataloged the chronic pain as a disease by itself and its treatment represents a human right (2017); however, Health is the responsibility of each individual, When seeking to improve the condition of life, it is necessary to do the possible according to the faculties and to the extent of the available resources.

In clinical practice we value the current sensory intensity and over time, as well as affective intensity, as they are correlated. Therefore, neurosciences demonstrate that in order to offer the patient a better quality of life, it is necessary to treatment to the body and mind, because lThus, pain in pain used by the patient, can mark the course, evolution and pain maintenance.

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