Changing Our Minds About Pain — Again!
modulation, and the interaction of pain modulating between the nervous system and the immune system. Perhaps this will give us a better understanding of how the “bio” part of the biopsychosocial model of pain can play major roles in pain contribution for different people. We don’t have to be biologists or neuroscientists to comprehend these topics, but as a service to our clients and patients, we therapists (and trainers) should have a strong basic knowledge of this side of pain.
There is so much to explore in the realm of touch and physical fitness in relation to pain, legality, and clinical practice that I wish Massage & Fitness Magazine is a bi-monthly issue so we can explore more in-depth in specific topics. A few fans had asked us about it last year, and I wish I could make it so. Researching, writing, and editing ONE story is a full-time job, which includes interviews and fact-checking. For now, we work with what we have, striving to make such transition soon.
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What we know and understand about pain changes quite often with emerging evidence and reasoning, but such information often do not trickle into clinical practice and education until many years later, if at all. This is why, in this issue, we explore three particular topics about pain: leg-length inequality, descending modulation, and the interaction of pain modulating between the nervous system and immune system. Perhaps this will give us a better understanding of how the “bio” part of the biopsychosocial model pain can play major roles in pain contribution for different people. We don’t have to be biologists or neuroscientists to comprehend these topics, but as a service to our clients and patients, we therapists (and trainers) should have a strong basic knowledge of this side of pain.
There is so much to explore in the realm of touch and physical fitness in relation to pain, legality, and clinical practice that I wish Massage & Fitness Magazine is a bi-monthly issue so we can explore more in-depth in specific topics. A few fans had asked us about it last year, and I wish I could make it so. Researching, writing, and editing ONE story is a full-time job, which includes interviews and fact-checking. So for now, we work with what we have, striving to make such transition soon.