"Pain Relievers" What do we know?

Good morning my friends . . .

I hope you had a safe and healthy weekend!!!

So, with the world in "chronic" PAIN these days . . .

Let's take this week and talk about all those "PAIN RELIEVERS" we consume . . .

With many . . . on a DAILY BASIS . . .

So, what's it all about???

Well . . . let's start at the beginning . . . and understand "WHY" we're in "pain" in the first place . . .

WHAT IS "PAIN"???

Well . . . simply put . . . "pain" is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with "actual" . . . or . . . "potential" tissue damage!

And the "types" of pain we can feel would be . . .

ACUTE - short-lived pain . . . typically caused by tissue injury

CHRONIC - persistent pain lasting for more than 3 months

NOCICEPTIVE - pain arising from tissue damage

NEUROPATHIC - pain caused by damage or dysfunction of the nervous system

IDIOPATHIC - pain without a clear underlying medical cause

And "PAIN" . . . is actually an ESSENTIAL protective mechanism . . . that alerts us to potential harm.

You see . . . "PAIN" . . . alerts us to harm through a 4 stage process . . .

TRANSDUCTION - where specialized nerve ending called . . . "nociceptors" . . . detect damages to an area of the body and "convert" them into "electrical signals". And with this . . we may feel "extreme temperature" . . . "intense pressure" . . . or a "chemical signaling" . . . released from the injured cells.

TRANSMISSION - where these "electrical signals" travel along nerves to the spinal cord and then to the brain.

MODULATION - where the spinal cord can amplify or dampen the "electrical signal" . . . before they get to the brain.

PERCEPTION - where the brain interprets these "electrical signals" . . . creating the conscious experience of pain . . . and initiating a protective response from the body.

So, tomorrow . . . let's discover if "PAIN RELIEVERS" . . . HELP US . . . OR HURT US!!!

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