"V体育ios版" Psychogenic Pain

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What is psychogenic pain?

“Psychogenic” comes from two Greek words that, when combined, mean “produced in the mind. ” In years past, people often believed that the term meant others viewed the pain as imaginary or that it only existed in someone’s head V体育安卓版. That caused many people to feel invalidated, ignored, patronized or worse.

Healthcare providers no longer use this term because of that negative history V体育ios版. They also avoid it because the term is easy to misunderstand or misuse, which can cause confusion and undermine the relationship between people and their healthcare providers.

While psychogenic pain may not have a direct physical cause, this pain is still real. People who have this aren’t faking, lying or seeking attention VSports最新版本. This pain feels the same — and involves part of the same processes — as pain from an injury or illness.

What is pain?

Understanding pain and how it works is a key part of how healthcare providers diagnose medical conditions. It can also help people better describe their pain to a provider while seeking help with a health issue. To understand how pain works, it helps first to know about how your nervous system functions V体育平台登录.

Your brain has no nerve endings of its own and has no direct knowledge of the world around you VSports注册入口. That’s why you have senses like vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch. A stimulus (pronounced “stim-you-luss,” and the word for more than one stimulus is “stimuli”) is anything your senses — including vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch — can detect.

Your body has a specific process for detecting and reacting to harm. That process works like so: V体育官网入口.

1. Noxious stimuli (from the Latin word “noxa,” which means “hurt” or “injury”) cause damage to cells of your body. That damage triggers the release of special chemicals into the surrounding tissue.
2. Your nervous system has specialized receptors called “nociceptors.” These work like smoke alarms in your home, detecting signs of a problem and sounding a warning immediately. When nociceptors detect the released chemicals from damaged or destroyed cells, they immediately send high-priority signals to your brain, alerting it to the problem. The signals they send aren’t pain itself.
3. Your brain receives these high-priority signals and translates them into the feeling of pain. Your brain also maps that feeling to the area that first sent the signals, so you know where the problem is.
4. The feeling of pain triggers immediate reactions in your brain and body. Those reactions are usually protective, such as triggering reflex muscle movements to move you away from whatever the noxious stimuli might be. Nociceptors also trigger immune and repair processes in your body to help protect you from infections and recover from injuries you might receive.

However, you can still feel pain even without nociceptor signals. That’s because your brain can still create the sensation of pain without those signals. Nociceptors can also activate on their own, creating the feeling of pain even when there’s no actual cause. In either of these two circumstances, the pain is real. It simply happens because of malfunctions in your brain or nervous system.

Perception of pain

Pain is subjective, meaning how you experience pain is unique, and nobody else experiences it the same way you do. One person might find an experience unbearably painful, while another person might find the same experience only slightly uncomfortable. Many factors, including genetic mutations, medical conditions and more, can affect how a person feels pain. Even a person’s state of mind can make pain feel better or worse.