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I'm sorry, I don't think I have a better word than "malfunction". When the pain is not proportionate anymore related to the sensation that causes it, it's a malfunction. CRPS, fibromyalgia are some exemples. But we still don't know exactly the root causes of those diseases. We just know that it's not entirely psychological.Thanks for the response!
In helping develop chronic pain solutions, I've learned that most people's pains are neuroplastic.
Very few people have pains rooted in structural issues, though neuroplastic pain does limit mobility and bring about structural issues.
I'm curious about what you referred to as "malfunctions".
Can you please elaborate on what you mean by that? Why/how would developmental processes develop "malfunctions" which lead to pain?
And lastly, if pain is a trigger across neural tissues, is pain physiologically measurable in say voltage gradients? Is pain that's felt in the neck a result of neurons in the neck misfiring? Or is the entire system dynamically linked across the CNS, in which case can the "pain" be localized?
You can't really "measure" pain, because it is a conscious construct, happening in the brain. Therefore it is very subjective. It explains why the tolerance to the same pain is wayyyy different between two people. We see it all the same in surgery, for exactly the same procedure, some people won't have any pain, and some will need morphine to get through. However modern imagery like functional MRI should help to understand better how pain works, but it's still a field of research.
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Today, in my humble opinion, the best solutions to treat chronic, neuropathic pain not associated with a precise, curable medical condition, are not in the classical medical methods (opioids,...) , which are very disappointing, but rather in the psychological methods, such as, mindfulness, meditation, accepting the pain and giving it a meaning, etc. This is not, again, a scientific facts but my opinion forged by seeing the patients and their experiments to live with chronic pain.
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