Conventional wisdom on pain isn’t always correct.
A little too stiff for children. Maybe for adults too.
CP is both the presence of something AND the absence of something.
The pressure to be normal is considerable. It is the pressure of society and man is a social animal. Central Pain can make big problems for what should be small steps. Here are some ideas to help you avoid making social interchanges a big problem.
How long must someone have depression to begin to think it is normal?
Those of us with Central Pain express sincere gratitude for the work of these two scientists. We thank them for elucidating mechanisms to explain the impossibly strange pains we must endure with central nerve injury. We hope above all for a cure, but in the meantime, greatly appreciate the validation and attention. We are not inhuman, we just have inhuman pain.
Pretty tough to realize you are not only not helping, but actually hurting your own loved ones and friends. Pain has a wide reach, and it needs to be stopped.
This is a technical article, but it will not seem technical to someone thinking of surgical lesioning for pain. Since most Central Pain subjects have burning pain, we are always interested in studies of heat pain, also called thermo-algesic pain.