Future of Treating Chronic Pain

The cover story for Time Magazine this month is about chronic pain and where scientists believe the future for treating chronic pain is leading them. kratom shot - Let's start at the beginning. They start off by identifying that pain is a primitive mechanism for identifying to the body that it is in distress. CONTRATULATIONS! The very next sentence is "But what happens when pain goes rogue, when it sends off false alarms so that all the sirens keep sounding, all the cops keep coming, all the hurts keep hurting?" These people are trying to imply that chronic pain is the result of pain signals in your body somehow deciding that they have a life of their own and they can do what they want. This is some very scary stuff. There just seems to be this lack of clarity about the fact that if you do not identify the cause of pain it will persist. It is not because the pain has taken on a life of it's own. It is not kidnapping your body. They get it in the first paragraph. It is the mechanism that allows tissues to identify to the brain that the tissue is in distress. This will continue until the distress is resolved. RESOLUTION OF THE DISTRESS OF THE TISSUE RESOLVES THE PAIN. It cannot be any clearer. If you have kidney stone, eat bad fish or cut yourself, resolve the tissue that is in distress and the pain signal goes away. The problem for the medical establishment is that they can't see their way to understanding that this premise still holds true even when talking about pain at the neck, back or extremity. Find the tissue creating the pain signal and resolve the distress of that tissue. The problem for the medical establishment is that their method of identifying the tissue has failed and they have called it. The American College of Physicians has set guidelines identifying that x-rays and MRIs should no longer be used to diagnose the cause of back pain because these scans find unrelated abnormalities that lead to treatments and tests that do nothing to resolve pain.