Pain is motion or Motion is pain?

[Diane]

Hi Bernard, everyone,
I remember regarding this quote, and also a later discussion of neuromatrix refitting in the Explain Pain book. As I recall the gist of it was that practicing a painful motion in the mind without physical movment, imagining doing it painlessly, will help to disengage the pain from the movment. In other words, using/ manipulating one's own awareness can help the brain to overcome a pattern that is less fixed than one might at first believe.
Diane

[emad]

Hi Bernard &Diane:

Yes i return back to the link i supplied you with from the manual therapy journal, pain neuromatrix approach to treat chronic pains , as i have no chance to read the book "The sensitive nevous system";

We try to apply input which could iniate the brain neuromatrix ,but in a manner which NOT lead the brain to feel there is a danger , begining the process gradually , gently as possible , even below the "baseline ".

That baseline we can ascertain through our subjective examination ,for example a patient with neck musclers pain goes with turning the neck to the left , so our intial approach could be imagine you have turned your neck to the left .

emad

[Green Hornet]

Hi folks,

The use of virtual movements/imagery has been forgotten in my proactice. I knew that the imagery activates the exact neuromotor circuit in the nervous system as the actual movement.

How is your experience with using virtual movements? Are they powerful stuff?

[bernard]

Takao,

I was thinking also about another virtual motion. Virtual because not really seen. Imagination is creating mental images but it will be a tricky affair to control/correct them without seeing them.

My questions are: If there is almost ever an activation of motor areas in painful states and this is not really contested actually-
1/ where is the physical area activated?
2/ Is there really an activated area?
3/ How can we correctly override it with new movements?

The third question is already answered! :wink: