With the latest discussion about Dry Needling on this thread Placeholder II - The Revival and at Mike Reinold’s blog is just another of a long list of treatments that need reconsidering when dealing with pain. Jason has eloquently stated in his thread Enough is Enough with these treatments, which is a must read and re-read for any therapist working with a patient in pain.
At this time with our current understanding of neuroscience I would hope all would agree that pain is in the brain. If pain is in the brain and the brain is an emergent system, then pain seems to also be an emergent system.
I recently stated in this thread on how I was “bitten”.
Last night while reading The Social Animal by David Broooks, I had a moment where my understanding seemed to get a little deeper into my bones. While the concepts of emergence, emergent system, fractal, culture and meme (search the words and you will find 100s of threads) are not new to anyone that reads here at SomaSimple, the way David Brooks wrote seemed to speak clearly about Pain being an emergent system even though he was not writing specifically about it.
I wanted to share excerpts from the book and how they speak to a deeper understanding of pain as an emergent system.
At this time with our current understanding of neuroscience I would hope all would agree that pain is in the brain. If pain is in the brain and the brain is an emergent system, then pain seems to also be an emergent system.
I recently stated in this thread on how I was “bitten”.
When Adriaan Louw shared what David Butler would say about chronic pain patients needing to understand pain was in the brain. This contextual shift had to happen in the "marrow of their bones" to help them the most. I realized I first needed to understand this to the depth of the "marrow of my bones" before I could help a patient.
I wanted to share excerpts from the book and how they speak to a deeper understanding of pain as an emergent system.
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