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- There's a number of things that can contribute to
the persistence of pain.
One can be a persistent input.
So if there's a damaged nerve or something like that
that ends up firing off
just spontaneous signals that go up the pathways
up to the brain that can be one reason.
Response of our whole body can be influenced
by our perception of threat or our perception of danger.
So if our brains think that there's a credible evidence
of danger to us we'll experience those inputs as painful.
If our brains perceive that those inputs are of no threat
it can significantly dampen those inputs.
All of our pain is described
in terms of damage because that's what pain is meant
to protect us from is damage.
And pain is unpleasant so that we try
to remove ourselves from potential harm.
So we might look, from a biological point of view
it can have effects of blood pressure, heart rate,
gastrointestinal changes, sleep changes, so on and so forth.
From a social point of view it can really interfere with
people's family life, their earning capacity,
the way that they interact with people.
From a psychological point of view it can be distressing.
It can lead to anxiety and depression
or there's a complex interplay between anxiety,
depression, and other psychological and psychiatric issues
that they just feed off each other.
So we try to do this with a combination of education,
optimization of medications, appropriate pain interventions,
and physical and psychological reconditioning.
So, a lot of our medications and procedures
are created to provide a window of opportunity
for psychological and physical rehabilitation.
- [Narrator] Care to Share, brought to you
by Buderim Private Hospital because your health matters.