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Pain is Your Bodys Warning System
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

According to one medical resource, there are 2,186 disease conditions that are characterized by pain. On the other hand, there are people who experience no pain whatsoever. Would you like to live a life without pain? Definitely not! Pain is the special communication from your body that tells you when something is wrong.

There is a certain social endorsement to people who can work or perform through pain. The more intense the pain is, the greater the admiration we have for someone who struggles on. We also have a somewhat negative view of people who seem to have a greater sensitivity to pain or that are limited by pain, especially if there are no obvious signs of disability. Of course, this stereotype is more extreme for men than for women.

We should all know that pain is a message. Our brain tells us that something is so very wrong that our health and well-being are threatened.

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Acute pain
My grandmother used to have a saying that applied to pain and many other areas of life including work, play and relationships. If the stove is too hot, take your hand off of it!

We take our hand off of a literal hot stove because of what is called a withdrawal reflex. We will often withdraw our hand or foot from a painful experience even before we have fully defined what is hurting us. In acute, short-term, pain, removing the trigger is very important. Common triggers for acute pain are

Trauma
Toxins
Deficiencies
Stress

Chronic pain
Some pain persists even when you take your hand off the stove. This is called chronic, long-term, pain. For instance, chronic back pain and chronic headaches persist long after the trauma that caused them. Many times there is no specific trauma. The pain just starts and will not go away.

This happens because of the way our nerves are constructed. You see, nerves do not really feel pain. They merely sense stimulation. It is up to our brain to interpret the signal as pain. We have specific nerve fibers that fire under specific conditions. One group of fibers may be triggered by a sharp jab, another group by dull pressure. One group may be triggered by heat and another by extreme cold. The nerves carry this specific message to our brain for interpretation. Our brain interprets the signal as painful. The volume of the signal helps us determine the intensity of the pain.

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In chronic pain

The signal goes from the nerve ending to the spine.
From the spine it travels to the brain for interpretation.
Then a signal goes back along that route, from brain to spine and from spine to nerve ending. This return message is supposed to shut off the pain signal when the irritation is gone.

In chronic pain, the return signal is not switched off. Instead, it is amplified.

Have you ever heard a microphone-speaker screech with feedback? This happens when the microphone is too close to the speaker or when it is directed in such a way that the microphone picks up the sound waves from the speaker and amplifies them. This amplified signal is played through the speaker again and picked up by the microphone again, where the signal repeats even louder. The result is the feedback screech that is definitely painful!

Your nerves can amplify pain signals. The signals do not even have to come from the nerve endings. Certain conditions may cause random signals to be amplified and pain may be projected to a perfectly healthy nerve ending. Remember, it is the interpretation of the intensity of this signal that we call pain.

Breaking the cycle
When pain comes from problems with the nerves themselves, you must help repair the nerve to get relief from the pain. This can be accomplished with specific nutrients, with physical medicine, for example, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, and with various nerve therapies.

More commonly, acute and chronic pain come as a mixed bag of imbalances caused by trauma, toxins, deficiency and stress. These triggers lead to inflammation. To relieve the pain you simply must deal with the cause of the problem as well as the triggers and any associated inflammation.

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Inflammation
Almost all healthy fats are anti-inflammatory. Omega-3s block inflammation and pain similarly to aspirin but are much safer. Omega 6 and 9, such as Evening Primrose oil and Perilla seed oil, block inflammation at the source and help keep runaway inflammation from overwhelming us. OmegaPrime is a good source of these Omegas and can be used to help hinder the cycle of inflammation. Other good sources of healthy fats include some fish, nuts, and oils.

Stress

Finally, if stress is a significant trigger for your pain, consider deep breathing exercises to help reduce the impact of stress and increase oxygen to the painful area. Many stress-induced migraines, neck and back pain can be relieved this way. Also, consider taking adaptogens up to four times daily in a pint of water to help create strong protection against stress.

Take Control of Your Health

Remove causes of pain. Remember to take your hand off of the stove!
Remove triggers of pain and inflammation
Resolve trauma with physical medicine
Detoxify to reduce chronic pain
Saturate your body with nutrients
Create a bulwark against stress
Practice deep breathing
Increase your fitness levels through exercise
Increase your mobility through stretching exercises
Reduce chronic pain disability by working with pain management specialists

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