Pain, it’s all in your head part 3
Central changes that contribute to chronic pain We have discussed how danger signals from nociceptors reach the dorsal horn and how they are passed on to secondary order neurones, which transmit the signals on to the brain. However there are structural changes that can happen in the nervous system that cause faulty signalling of sensory […]
Pain, Itâs All in Your Head! Part 2
Pain in the brain Nociception Nociception is a term that describes the sensation of noxious stimulation that may be interpreted as pain. Nociceptors are nerve cells that reside in the dorsal root ganglion with free nerve endings in the skin, muscles, tendons, ligaments and viscera that relay noxious input to the spinal cord. The predominant […]
Pain it’s all in your head, part 1
What is chronic pain? It was Rene Descarte who proposed the theory of pain that has persisted for nearly 400 years. Descarte thought that there were specific pain receptors and nerve fibres that projected pain impulses to the spinal cord and on to a specific pain centre in the brain. This implicated that the experience […]
Physiotherapy in Wandsworth
Physiotherapy in Wandsworth If you’re a keen gym goer, Boot Camp goer, or recreational athlete it’s more than likely that you will pick up an injury from time to time. It could be quite a simple injury such as a muscle strain or minor ligament sprain, or you could have a more debilitating and painful […]
Update to arthritis guidelines
What is arthritis? The National Institute for Clinic Excellence (NICE) has recently updated its advice and clinical guidelines for the management of Osteoarthritis (OA). NICE provides evidence-based recommendations on the most effective ways of diagnosing and managing osteoarthritis in England and Wales and clinicians use these guidelines when deciding what treatment to give patients presenting […]