{"id":2766,"date":"2020-05-30T19:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2023-02-08T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:16:22","slug":"much-ado-about-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/much-ado-about-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Much Ado About Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2766\" class=\"elementor elementor-2766\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-564cb5e5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"564cb5e5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2f349084\" data-id=\"2f349084\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fe0e57f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2fe0e57f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.8.1 - 13-11-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Hello East County,<\/p><p>Pain, pain, pain. It\u2019s at the forefront of many peoples\u2019 minds. Sometimes physical, sometimes emotional, sometimes psychological. Our brains are vast networks of relationships that work together with a goal of maintaining homeostasis. Many people think of physical pain as being a tissue injury of our musculoskeletal system, but would it surprise you to learn that physical pain is affected by many other systems in our body? There are different parts in our brain that respond as a team to form a reaction to every environmental stimulus. It\u2019s how we react in stressful situations, it\u2019s how we sense a threat and safety, it\u2019s how we love and hate. These reactions are based on our genes and how our unique environment has shaped how those genes are expressed. These established\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>but changeable<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0pathways are the same pathways that are used to interpret pain. We need context to interpret pain. Think about this common example of a toddler falling and scraping their knee with a little blood. The child at first doesn\u2019t react, but then if they see blood or see an adult react with a little excessive urgency, they start crying. Now as adults, what context do we get from the medical establishment? Everyone wants to tell you how broken you are. I can\u2019t tell you the number of times I have heard, \u201cThe doc said my knee is the worst they have ever seen\u201d when reviewing an x-ray. Everyone has their own answer too. Pain meds, surgery, spinal adjustment, braces, etc.\u00a0 Not that they do not have their place, but what is the common theme, they are passive and simplistic answers to oftentimes, complex issues.\u00a0 Rarely do I hear stories from patients that they received positive recommendations and motivations to empower the patient to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>HELP THEMSELVES<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0through their pain experience. Mental health and psychology have received such a bad rap that we only think it is for people who are \u201cmentally ill,\u201d but you cannot discount the brain\u2019s role in pain. It is everything. It is the thing that synthesizes all of the input from the environment to make a judgment and reaction. What does the brain use to make the decision? Obviously the severity of the injury, but also past injuries and recoveries, what we are told by experts, and every other interaction that is involved in how your life will be affected by the injury. What happens at home, what happens at work, what happens within, what is expected of you? All of those factors play within the framework of your genetic predisposition. Everyone is different. Every single person\u2019s pain is unique. So what is the best thing that we can do to help you? It seems strange to think that the best thing would be to play the role of the overreacting parent and tell you how broken you are, but that is what happens every day. We need to do better for you. We need to be more educated about the pain process. We need to stop stigmatizing the mental aspects of pain. I have seen absolutely incredible transformations in people that have been written off by the medical community and suffer day-in and day-out in pain. Does their pain disappear? It depends, but if it doesn\u2019t, they are able to understand and work within their life much better. They are again able\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>LIVE LIFE ON THEIR TERMS<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p><p>I am here to walk with you on your Journey to Live Life Intentionally.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello East County, Pain, pain, pain. It\u2019s at the forefront of many peoples\u2019 minds. Sometimes physical, sometimes emotional, sometimes psychological. Our brains are vast networks of relationships that work together &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/much-ado-about-pain\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Much Ado About Pain<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anikhossain.com\/llp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}