May 18
You will only feel pain if the brain thinks that the stimuli is threatening or it is a danger to the body. And this is what I tried to convey in my pain article. Check it out if you havent read it. But most people can’t fathom this concept.
In the below presentation by Lorimer Moseley – one of the leading researchers of pain- he talks about the concept of how ‘pain is in the brain’ by giving an example from his own life. The post below talks about this example.
Scenario 1
This was 8 years ago when Moseley was camping in western Australia: Something touches the left side of his leg when he is walking on the trail through the woods. It activa
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