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Haims: New research is changing how we address pain
Judson Haims
March 14, 2022
There is no such thing as a “pain receptor” in our body. Pain is produced within our brain and it is our brain that determines our pain threshold and experience. Fortunately, we have the ability to retrain our brain how to interpret pain. We can retrain our brain to control pain and, by changing our understanding of pain, we can better manage it. Pain is nothing more than information. Unfortunately, we have been taught that pain is a bad thing — something to avoid and to be feared. However, consider an athlete’s relationship with pain. Athletes break through various thresholds of pain during training and thus systematically improve their abilities. We too can improve our abilities. We just need to rethink what we know about pain. Over the next few columns, I will provide information from people who specialize in the study of pain.
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