Audience: Patients with any type of pain or injury

Purpose: to learn a little about pain and convince you that pain is not in your head even though your brain plays a big role

Why? Understanding pain helps decrease pain and helps us make better choices in the treatment of injury

Some brief pain information tidbits

• you don’t need a leg to feel pain in that leg (e.g. phantom limb pain)
• you always need a Brain to feel pain
• pain can become a habit - and like all habits lots of factors help keep it going
• Changes in how we feel pain can also come from changes in the brain and the nervous system
• tissue damage or degeneration does not have to lead to pain - but it certainly can (more…)