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I found this today and wanted to share it with you all. Fond it on the A.P.F. (American Pain Foundation) Web site. I believe this may be more about the kind of C.P. which you cannot find a reason for. ?? untraceable pain.
Where as a lot of us have obvious reason for the pain. I wonder in their search for medications that will not be just symptom managing medications they will find medication which will stop specific pain neurotransmitters to help us with the obvious reasons for pain. Just a thought.
http://www.painfoundation.org/learn/#TED%20Video
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'Stubborn' TerrieAnn
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Where as a lot of us have obvious reason for the pain. I wonder in their search for medications that will not be just symptom managing medications they will find medication which will stop specific pain neurotransmitters to help us with the obvious reasons for pain. Just a thought.
http://www.painfoundation.org/learn/#TED%20Video
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'Stubborn' TerrieAnn
ralop
Perfect example of research providing answers.
There is so much that we do not understand about how the human brain works.
If drugs can be found to stop the process of excalation before the pain become wide spread and chronic, perhaps one day the nervous system can be reset early in this disease process.
There is HOPE once there is understanding.
Some day some of the accpeted treatments for CP will be considered barbaric and insane in the same witch doctoring as bleeding and cupping. No more will we have doctors who go around telling us to "live with it", "acceptance brings relief", or the ever present "if you were not lazy you wouldl function better".
Thank you
Sunny
Although, time for some divergence from what he is saying. His theory regarding amplification is, at best, an academic theory, and, more importantly, the line of connection between his theory, the mechanism of treatment, and it's impact on the neuroanatomy is pseudo science.
The reason the method works is that the person is severing the link between the pain and it's control over function and medication. Notice, while this may be a presumption on my part, the success of this case was illustrated by a back flip and a smile, function and quality of life. He did not ask or share what the patient's rating of pain was before and after. It may well be that it was lower (a welcome, but rare occurrence in my experience), or it may be that it is unchanged. Even if it is less in terms of reported pain, is there a way to verify that his theory of the mechanism is the reason? Could it have run its' course (as he said may happen in the early part of the video)? Or, and this is my conclusion, it is not the accomplishment of the goal to reduce pain in operation and success here, rather the wresting of control over function and passive treatments that accounts for the improvements in quality of life.