If you feel pain there must be a physical problem causing this pain, right? Well according to a number of studies done over the years the answer to this question is no, not necessarily.
Sure, the pain feels 'real' to us and it needs to be treated, but there can also be underlying emotional causes that trigger a pain response as our bodies way of coping with this stress.
Just to give you an example, after the terrible events of September 11 2001 there was a rapid increase in flare-up's of physical pain in people and some of these people had been pain free for years.
This rapid increase was observed by Dr.
Ian Wickramasekera of the Stanford University who had been specializing in stress related diseases for thirty years and as a result of this finding a group of scientists began a study into this phenomenon.
Now obviously the events that took place on September 11 2001 were extreme to say the least but this example clearly shows that psychological distress can quite easily manifest itself as physical pain.
Dr.
Wickramasekera goes on to say that many people are not even aware of what they are fearful or angry about which can obviously make recovery a difficult task.
So what does this all mean for you and I? The first thing is that we need to sit down and closely examine possible stressors in our lives.
This may take some doing as some of the stress in your life may even seem routine and normal to you and quite possibly you don't pay it that much attention or consciously think about it.
This stress may be slowly eating away at you though and putting you in pain.
Obviously identifying AND dealing with our stress is going to improve the way we feel in this situation but will it relieve us of all our physical pain? If we take a look at the studies done regarding this theory there is still a physical element to the pain even when there is severe emotional trauma.
Stress creates tension in the body and tension has the ability to cause all sorts of problems.
Sore and aching back muscles from being constantly in a tensed state, spinal problems can arise from the way the muscles are behaving, poor posture because of restricted movement of the back muscles, the list goes on.
So gaining control of our emotions and controlling our stress level is vitally important to get on the road to recovery but also equally important is learning how to control the physical pain.
Finding the right exercises and techniques to release the stored up tension in our back muscles can make a world of difference as can knowing how to deal with a stressful situation when one arises, and they often do!
Sure, the pain feels 'real' to us and it needs to be treated, but there can also be underlying emotional causes that trigger a pain response as our bodies way of coping with this stress.
Just to give you an example, after the terrible events of September 11 2001 there was a rapid increase in flare-up's of physical pain in people and some of these people had been pain free for years.
This rapid increase was observed by Dr.
Ian Wickramasekera of the Stanford University who had been specializing in stress related diseases for thirty years and as a result of this finding a group of scientists began a study into this phenomenon.
Now obviously the events that took place on September 11 2001 were extreme to say the least but this example clearly shows that psychological distress can quite easily manifest itself as physical pain.
Dr.
Wickramasekera goes on to say that many people are not even aware of what they are fearful or angry about which can obviously make recovery a difficult task.
So what does this all mean for you and I? The first thing is that we need to sit down and closely examine possible stressors in our lives.
This may take some doing as some of the stress in your life may even seem routine and normal to you and quite possibly you don't pay it that much attention or consciously think about it.
This stress may be slowly eating away at you though and putting you in pain.
Obviously identifying AND dealing with our stress is going to improve the way we feel in this situation but will it relieve us of all our physical pain? If we take a look at the studies done regarding this theory there is still a physical element to the pain even when there is severe emotional trauma.
Stress creates tension in the body and tension has the ability to cause all sorts of problems.
Sore and aching back muscles from being constantly in a tensed state, spinal problems can arise from the way the muscles are behaving, poor posture because of restricted movement of the back muscles, the list goes on.
So gaining control of our emotions and controlling our stress level is vitally important to get on the road to recovery but also equally important is learning how to control the physical pain.
Finding the right exercises and techniques to release the stored up tension in our back muscles can make a world of difference as can knowing how to deal with a stressful situation when one arises, and they often do!
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