WELCOME TO BILLIE'S HELP PAGE FOR PAIN UNDERSTANDING
WHAT
IS PAIN?
Pain results from a
series of exchanges among three major components of your
nervous system:
YOUR PERIPHERAL NERVES
These
nerves extend from your spinal cord to your skin, muscles and
internal organs. Some peripheral nerve fibers end with receptors
that respond to touch, pressure, vibration, cold and warmth.
Other types of nerve fibers end with nociceptors (no-sih-SEP-turs)
which are receptors that detect actual or potential tissue
damage.
Nociceptors are most concentrated in areas prone to injury, such
as your fingers and toes. When nociceptors detect a harmful
stimulus such as the hard surface that stubbed your toe
they relay pain messages in the form of electrical impulses
along a peripheral nerve to your spinal cord and brain.
Sensations of severe pain are transmitted almost
instantaneously.
YOUR SPINAL CORD
The nerve fibers that transmit pain messages such as the
throbbing pain from that stubbed toe enter the spinal cord
in an area called the dorsal horn. There, they release chemicals
(neurotransmitters) that activate other nerve cells in the
spinal cord, which process the information and then transmit it
up to the brain.
YOUR BRAIN
When news
of your stubbed toe travels up the spinal cord, it arrives at
the thalamus a sorting and switching station deep inside
your brain. The thalamus forwards the message simultaneously to
three specialized regions of the brain: the physical sensation
region (somatosensory cortex), the emotional feeling region
(limbic system) and the thinking region (frontal cortex). Your
brain responds to pain by sending messages that moderate the
pain in the spinal cord.
The location of your pain can affect how you perceive it. A
headache that interferes with work or concentration may be more
bothersome and therefore receive a stronger response
than arthritic pain in your knee or a cut to your finger.
Excerpt from
"How you feel pain" copyright Mayo Clinic
Here
at Billie's Help Page we offer a gentle, informative approach to
24/7 CHRONIC PAIN. Billie opened this free site in order to try
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"COMMUNITY"
Somewhere
there are people
to whom we can speak with passion
without having the words catch
in our throats.
Somewhere a circle of hands
will open to receive us,
eyes will light up as we enter,
voices will celebrate with us
whenever we come into our
own power
Community means strength that
joins our strength
to do the work that needs to be done.
Arms to hold us when we falter.
A circle of healing.
A circle of friends.
Someplace where we can be free.
(copyright
Starhawk - Dreaming the Dark)
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