Pain Tips - Less Pain With Firm Pressure?
Less Pain With Firm Pressure
This is a short post that relates to Dr. Howard Schubiner's little tests that you can use clinically with a patient suffering from persistent or chronic pain. If you are a patient, then you can do this test yourself.
This is looking at someone who has a painful area, and firm pressure relieves that pain.
Pain Driven By the Brain
This points to that pain being driven by the brain.
Pick an area of the body that is currently painful, then apply firm pressure to that place.
If you think of this very logically, it would generally hurt more with persistent pain if something is damaged and you press on it.
Nice Pain
In some patients, that firm pressure takes the pain away, or it feels nice.
Some people might describe a ‘nice pain’ when it happens.
That's a piece of solid objective evidence that the brain is driving that pain because it doesn't follow that logical pathway of when tissue is damaged, and you press on it, it hurts more.
There will be another post on when you push on an area on the body, which hurts more.
That isn't confirming that persistent pains due to structural damage, but I’ll do a separate post on that another time to explain that.
Recap
So just to recap, what we're doing here is when someone has persistent pain, has a painful area of the body, and seeing if firm pressure takes that pain away.
If it does or feels nice, that is their brain, which is robust evidence that their brain generates that pain.
More Evidence
The more pieces of evidence you build up in a way that starts to create that shift, the better understanding the actual cause of that pain and how you can reverse it.
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