For the last several years, the last page of the intake form at our clinic has written on it, “Have you experienced any major traumas?” Interestingly enough the most common response to that question is no. The next most common response is the notating of a motor vehicle collision. Following that is a response detailing […]
Tag: chronic pain
Three Kinds of Pain
Pain is a sensory phenomena. Irrespective of its cause, pain is a message, mediated by the nervous system to relay information about the state of the body. Simply put, pain is the body’s way of communicating to us that something is wrong. Since your body doesn’t speak english (or any other language for that matter) […]
Treating Neurogenic Pain
Of the three kinds of pain detailed in the last post, neurogenic pain is perhaps the least understood. The data we have gleaned from neuroscience tells an interesting story about both the complexity and plasticity of the human brain. The central nervous system is capable of a multitude of strange and unusual phenomena, from a […]