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Pain-Brain overloading idea - no takers?
Pre-motor pain mechanism overloading concept is totally ignored.
Date: 10/5/2007 12:14:10 AM ( 17 y ) ... viewed 1891 times Is overloading being overlooked??
It has been more than a month since I latched onto the idea that chronic pain syndrome must have something to do with the brain's 'frontal lobes' becoming overloaded in similiar ways to learning disorders.
{see my previous blog titled: "Chronic Pain and Learning Disorders - related?"}
It seems like such an obvious concept - of course the processing areas in the brain are becoming overloaded from "sensory stimuli". It is not cutting edge neuroscience anymore, it has been accepted in grade-school classrooms that some kids cannot learn as easily as others because the processing areas of their brains becomes overloaded. It is common knowledge that Ritilin stimulates the gateways to the processing areas and stimulates those areas to slow down the processing.
An yet, I cannot find one iota of confirmation OR denial about "overloaded processing causing pain" and the many other search terms I have tried. In this past month I have researched like never before, googling the internet and searching science sites and even writing to some people who might know [but I am to shy/insecure to do THAT very much]. I have read and read, I have learned the definitions so I could understand the science and research papers, and I have learned quite a bit but I cannot find anything about "overloaded processing" as relates to pain. NADA!!
Some ["some"!!] of the search terms I have tried at various medical research sites such as "Medline", "Pain Journal", etc, including some that Dr. Doidge [the author of "The Brain That Changes Itself"] sent to me, include:
*pre-motor dysfunction and pain
*absence of filter, pain
*weak gating, pain
*gateway plasticity, chronic pain
*excitotoxic overload pain
*chronic pain brain syndrome
*Frontal Brain overloading pain
*Chronic Pain Learning disorders Weak gating
*pre motor dysfunction hypersensitive pain system
*overloaded processing weak gating pain
- and every possible combination of them!!
Maybe it is just too obvious? "Of Course it is overloaded, dummy" kinda thing? - but if that is true, then why are there no therapies specifically suited to helping people with this problem, designed to target the overloaded areas of the brain?
Millions upon millions of people have chronic pain, and most of them are getting some help, like painkillers.
Some therapies like meditation and relaxation and probably massage and physiotherapy, are perfectly suited to addressing the overloading idea. That is WHY they work to reduce or even eliminate pain in some people - they quell the overloading. Some people, like me, have a physical source of pain [a badly smashed up leg] and from there it has blown up into a "pain syndrome" where the brain is on alert due to the injury and makes so many non-injured parts of my body hurt. All I should need to take away so much of my pain is to STOP THE OVERLOADING, but there is nothing.
Did you know - that for people who prefer printing to cursive writing, the ones who have that illegible "jerky handwriting" [cursive], it is because the frontal lobes become overloaded with the long flowing cursive writing, but printing is short strokes with tiny breaks in between each part of each letter which is just enough to keep their brains from being overloaded.
AND - that pain is ONLY a reality in the brain, there is no pain without the brain to recongnise it as such ; my leg never hurts, it is only that the brain sends and receives message and it is the mechanism of protecting the body parts that becomes what we know as "PAIN".
SO WHATS SO DIFFICULT ABOUT PUTTING THOSE TOGETHER???
I am starting to wonder if this Is known and perhaps something political, commercial, etc. in the fact that it is not being talked about, researched. All we need is to identify the precise brain parts for non-injury pains and then develop drugs or other therapies to target those areas to keep them from activating the pain mechanism. Gees, if I can see that - where are the experts???
Someone tell me - is this all just "too obvious"? Or is there another reason that overloading is overlooked?
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