Pain Myth #2

Ascent Physical Therapy

A few weeks I posted about 5 common myths about pain.  Over the next few posts I will try to explain why each is a myth.  Here is that list again if you didn’t see it or don’t remember it.

1. Pain comes from a specific structure in your body, for example a joint, bone, or muscle.
2. The amount of pain some is experiencing is directly related to the amount of structural damage or seriousness of an injury.
3. Pain signals are sent from the body to the brain
4. Pain is a completely physical experience, separate from thoughts or emotions
5. Pain is in your head or psychosomatic if no physical injury or signs are present, for example negative scans or no obvious injury

We tackled the 1st myth (actually #3 on the list) in this post https://ascentpt.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/pain-myth-1/

Today I will talk about #1 on our list.  Pain does not need to come…

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Pain Myth #1

Ascent Physical Therapy

Last week I posted about 5 common myths about pain.  Over the next few posts I will try to explain why each is a myth.  Here is that list again if you didn’t see it or don’t remember it.

1. Pain comes from a specific structure in your body, for example a joint, bone, or muscle.
2. The amount of pain some is experiencing is directly related to the amount of structural damage or seriousness of an injury.
3. Pain signals are sent from the body to the brain
4. Pain is a completely physical experience, separate from thoughts or emotions
5. Pain is in your head or psychosomatic if no physical injury or signs are present, for example negative scans or no obvious injury.

Today we will actually start with the third myth on the list “Pain signals are sent from the body to the brain.”

Many people believe that when something happens to…

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