By Alan Orr
For many, back pain is among the worst types of pain to deal with on a daily basis. It is a very real problem that is often caused by some imbalanced structural problem or from an injury.
But it is important to keep in mind that all pain is "information." When there is a problem with your body, your body communicates this to your brain via nerve impulses. These impulses are "pain signals" that send the injury information to the brain to make you uncomfortable in an effort to force you to do something about it. Hopefully, we then address the issue ourselves or contact an expert to do something, while also not doing additional things to continue the problem and make it chronic.
On the whole this is a good system. However, it becomes an issue with long-term pain problems and also when nerves are damaged or become overactive. In these cases a person can have functional movement and no longer have the original structural damage, but still be in pain. Also we have cases where the pain changes from area to area, called migrating pain. And often times, pain is made much worse (or made chronic) by the way we think about it... and how often we think about it!
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