I can't believe I ran into this video while searching for something else, just as the discussion on pain in the thread re: meditation and pain is being discussed on this forum.
( http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/showt...ation-and-pain )
This is an excellent video of pain and the current research. Watch through to the end of the video, because it ends on a hopeful note. I hope this might help those who are suffering from pain in some way.
A couple of interesting comments from Dr. Mackey:
This country is generating an epidemic of chronic pain due to the 40 million surgeries per year performed. 90% of surgical patients recover fine from pain of surgery, the other 10% suffer chronic unremitting pain.
Dr. Mackey says he tries to get patients in to see him earlier because it's easier to make an impact on these chronic pain patients early before it becomes a catastrophe in their lives.
Chronic pain causes fundamental alterations of the brain and central nervous system. Structural changes in the gray matter of the brain, shrinkage of various areas of the brain.
The video:
http://med.stanford.edu/121/2011/mackey.html
( http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/showt...ation-and-pain )
This is an excellent video of pain and the current research. Watch through to the end of the video, because it ends on a hopeful note. I hope this might help those who are suffering from pain in some way.
A couple of interesting comments from Dr. Mackey:
This country is generating an epidemic of chronic pain due to the 40 million surgeries per year performed. 90% of surgical patients recover fine from pain of surgery, the other 10% suffer chronic unremitting pain.
Dr. Mackey says he tries to get patients in to see him earlier because it's easier to make an impact on these chronic pain patients early before it becomes a catastrophe in their lives.
Chronic pain causes fundamental alterations of the brain and central nervous system. Structural changes in the gray matter of the brain, shrinkage of various areas of the brain.
The video:
http://med.stanford.edu/121/2011/mackey.html
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