Why the pain?

[ronthepon]

Perhaps you could mention about the lactic acid formation due to anaerobic respiration performed in muscles due to low oxygen presence. This lactic acid causes cramps.

 

I'd suppose the pain going away later be because the muscles become more efficient oxygen users.

[somasimple]

Hi all,

 

Pain no. Response of the body telling you something is Wrong!

 

Not sure. Pain is a brain response. It is not a sensation/feeling.

[Nootropic]

It's really difficult to classify pain with various different types. The type of pain associated after vigorous exercise is really because of soreness, but the type of pain one experiences from blunt trauma (a kick to the head) is different, but in both situations, there is what can be described as "pain."

 

 

 

Hi all,

 

 

 

Not sure. Pain is a brain response. It is not a sensation/feeling.

 

Not quite. Pain comes from the nerves that send an electric impulse to the brain. I had ACL surgery with a patellar tendon graft and they actually had to cut through a nerve to remove the graft for my ACL which left me with a small area of numbness by the incision (since it was only a superficial nerve). Not quite just the brain because otherwise I'd still have feeling in that part of my knee.

[somasimple]

Not sure,

 

It's my job!

http://www.iasp-pain.org/terms-p.html

 

An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.

 

Note: The inability to communicate verbally does not negate the possibility that an individual is experiencing pain and is in need of appropriate pain-relieving treatment.

 

Notes: Pain is always subjective. Each individual learns the application of the word through experiences related to injury in early life. Biologists recognize that those stimuli which cause pain are liable to damage tissue. Accordingly, pain is that experience we associate with actual or potential tissue damage. It is unquestionably a sensation in a part or parts of the body, but it is also always unpleasant and therefore also an emotional experience. Experiences which resemble pain but are not unpleasant, e.g., pricking, should not be called pain. Unpleasant abnormal experiences (dysesthesias) may also be pain but are not necessarily so because, subjectively, they may not have the usual sensory qualities of pain.

 

Many people report pain in the absence of tissue damage or any likely pathophysiological cause; usually this happens for psychological reasons. There is usually no way to distinguish their experience from that due to tissue damage if we take the subjective report. If they regard their experience as pain and if they report it in the same ways as pain caused by tissue damage, it should be accepted as pain. This definition avoids tying pain to the stimulus. Activity induced in the nociceptor and nociceptive pathways by a noxious stimulus is not pain, which is always a psychological state, even though we may well appreciate that pain most often has a proximate physical cause.

[Hans Albert Quistorff- LM]

Raccoon and Magnet man covered it well. I tell my clients work up to the pain and get the message time to stop. Working through the pain violates its purpose and should only be done under the guidance of a therapist. If it is an inappropriate/limiting pain a well trained therapist will know how to reset the feed back loop that is causing it.

Hans Albert Quistorff, LMP

Antalgic Posture Pain Specialist

[Michaelangelica]

Angina?

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[Michaelangelica]

Pain, and Pain-relief (analgesia) - The Naked Scientists