How Pain Works – Pain Management 3 | Trigger Point Treatment

Understanding the mechanics of pain is the first step to realising how to control it. Because – and this is crucial – the hurt is not felt where the damage is. Pain is felt in your brain. And sometimes, the soreness can be felt independently from the actual damage in your body.

What I mean is PAIN does not always equal DAMAGE.

What does this mean? It means, that you can have an injury that has healed physically, but you still feel an ache. An extreme example of this is phantom limb pain. This is where people can feel a twinge in a limb that has been amputated and is no longer there.

So, if we can feel an ache in a part of your body that no longer exists, is it possible that you could feel discomfort from an injury that has healed?

Once you understand how your brain processes messages from your nerves, you can see your brain can sometimes misinterpret the message. In addition, your brain can amplify or dampen the pain message.