Explaining Why It Hurts
#painscience #physicaltherapy #pain #rehab #hurt #chronicpain People think the body receives a pain stimulus, that fires receptors, and sends a signal up a pathway to your brain, but actually there are no “pain signals” sent to the brain, nor “pain pathways” from the body to the brain. There aren’t even “pain receptors” in the body to begin with. Pain doesn’t exist in the body. It’s like how hunger has nothing to do with how much nutrients is in your body. You could be full t