KINESIOL 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Neuroplasticity, Blow Torch, Mechanoreceptor
15 Sep 2016
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For someone with chronic pain, the brushing of a feather across their arm is as painful as a blow torch. Something as innocuous as wind blowing across their pain could feel painful. Experience of pain, unlike with acute pain, there is no advantage to having chronic pain. With acute pain, eg. stub your toe, you pay attention to your toe etc don"t use it acute pain localizes pain teaches you to stay away from pain source, associated with tissue damage etc. advantage. With chronic pain, the pain lingers, stays there, is there even after wound is healed disease in and of itself. With chronic pain the touch of a feather feels like heat from a blow torch. Minor sprain to the wrist leads to chronic pain. Minor wrist sprain pain took over, hand and arm became extremely sore. Red, discoloured, swollen if you brushed a feather she would be in pain. Don"t understand how to best treat chronic pain.
