tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61232052667897610992024-03-13T04:56:28.775-07:00arturo goicoechea blogknow pain, no painArturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-27159391725974185652011-04-05T06:01:00.001-07:002011-04-05T06:01:37.662-07:00Muscular consistency<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1eedxbG0CyU/TZVr_1GBueI/AAAAAAAABBY/4slYRTahsFI/s400/fibra-muscular.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1eedxbG0CyU/TZVr_1GBueI/AAAAAAAABBY/4slYRTahsFI/s320/fibra-muscular.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><h3 id="internal-source-marker_0.8277879888191819" style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contracture, overload, spasm, hypertension, hardness, knots, myofascial points, increased consistency ...</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- My neck hurts</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The physical therapist feels the area in which pain is perceived and concludes:</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Your neck is stiff.</span><span style="background-color: lime; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If there is a confusing issue in the field of pain it’s the aching muscle. The so-called "muscle-skeletal pain" is a damn jumble, a conceptual disaster.</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The muscle is a tissue of varying consistency to palpation and the joints also show a varying opposition to pasive movement. By feeling and moving, the physical therapists draw conclusions about the muscular condition, their responsibility in the genesis of pain. </span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Muscular consistency is influenced by many variables. A muscle of increased consistency can be too tight, or not. If it’s tightened, it can be due to neuronal stimuli or specific conditions of the muscle fibers.</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contracture is not synonymous with contraction. Increased consistency is not synonymous with contraction. A muscle that is painful with palpation doesn’t have to be contracted. Pain is not something that makes the painful muscle contract. It is a false cliché.</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The static muscle aquires more consistency and higher viscosity, but moving it actively or pasively is enough for its consistency to decrease. It’s a strange property of the so-called non-Newtonian fluids, the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thixotropy. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A "hard" muscle becomes "soft" simply because it’s thixotropic. The same happens with ketchup, paints, honey ...</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Muscles can be unnecessarily contracted (as lights could be unnecessarily turned on when there is no one in the room) and express their discomfort or vulnerability through pain. Relaxing them is enough for consistency and pain to yield. </span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There may be bad postural, psychological, programming conditions, overexertion... There may be myofascial trigger points that fatten the vicious circle of pain (always with the collaboration of a vigilant and catastrophic brain). There may also be a brain that defends an area from individual’s purposes.</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the pain and increased consistency of muscles from one area, there are many variables: muscular, neuromuscular, cerebral ... There are contractures, contractions, viscoelasticity, protections, alerts, bait points ...</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The physical therapist palpates, moves, questions, values ... informs, back to palpating, moves, shows, convinces...</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The universe of static and kinetic muscle is complex. It’s not my universe. I’m a neurologist. The physical therapists have a great job to do: to clarify that universe for themselves and for citizens.</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- It hurts ...</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Let's see, calmly... This is very complex.</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PD Elefante, a worthy reader of the blog, recommended me this post:</span></h3><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://bretcontreras.com/2011/03/a-revolution-in-the-understanding-of-pain-and-treatment-of-chronic-pain/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cc4400; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://bretcontreras.com/2011/03/a-revolution-in-the-understanding-of-pain-and-treatment-of-chronic-pain/</span></a></h3><a href="http://bretcontreras.com/2011/03/a-revolution-in-the-understanding-of-pain-and-treatment-of-chronic-pain/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cc4400; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br />
<a href="http://bretcontreras.com/2011/03/a-revolution-in-the-understanding-of-pain-and-treatment-of-chronic-pain/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cc4400; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t miss it!</span></h3></div></span></span>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-62643855323300594222011-03-30T04:33:00.000-07:002011-03-30T04:33:59.636-07:00End of the cycle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R2GPnY8VLOI/TZK4WzDZOKI/AAAAAAAABBQ/sx_enx_Vu-s/s400/puesta+de+sol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R2GPnY8VLOI/TZK4WzDZOKI/AAAAAAAABBQ/sx_enx_Vu-s/s320/puesta+de+sol.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"And then straightaway</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">he put on his hat, brandished his sword,</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">sand with a sidelong glance, stole off."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">My professional cycle has been closed. Today is my last day. I am retiring.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I’ll continue writing on the blog and participating in the proposed initiatives to spread knowledge about neurons and body perception.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I leave the corporate world (Osakidetza) after several years of preaching in the desert of my hospital with the most absolute disdain of what I could contribute with my proposals. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The brain, neurons, have something of a taboo for professionals and, to a lesser extent, for the sufferers.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The disdain to what is ignored is striking and unbearable. Few let the auto-complacent calmness of the politically correct doctrines and agreed protocols get disturbed. Migraine, it’s argued, is a genetic brain disease. Period. They only hope to identify the responsible genes to provide the specific antidote for each individual, upon presentation of the genomical card. Everything that isn’t a molecular contribution is pure quackery. A waste of time. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Knowledge about neural processes should have imposed a radical change in concepts and proposals for neurologists. There are no signs of that happening. Basic issues such as perception, emotion, cognition, mobility, placebo, empathy, mirror neurons, efferent copy, reward system, decision making, error detection, nociception, information processing, Bayesian logic... are exotic matter for those who feel comfortably installed (with the timely support of Farmaindustria) in the universe of new drugs.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The texts are still contaminated by a symptomatic lexicon. They keep talking about pain receptors, pain signals, pathways of pain, pain centers. They still maintain that the brain does not hurt if you puncture it and, as the only painful intracranial structures are in the meninges and their large vessels, that’s where you have to find the source of pain, in the "trigemino-vascular axis." The reality is that the painful brain area was never actually punctured, for the simple reason that it is hidden deep in the "sylvian valley", in the lobe of the insula. If you puncture it when the guy is awake, he confirms it hurts. The brain does hurt ... if the sensitive points are found.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Pain is about anti-inflammatories, triptans, antidepressants and anticonvulsants, electromagnetic stimulations, electrodes, botulinum toxins, detachments of tight muscles ... and information, a lot of information. We must make the citizen and the professional be aware of it. Workshops, conferences, campaigns, international days for pain ... but no word is said about the risk of information.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"I swear to God, I'm astonished by this grandeur..."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Last week I was invited to a High School to speak about neurons and pain. Everything was new for the students. Their minds were as open for Neuroscience as for homeopathy or acupuncture. Their brains were already colonized by the alarmist culture of the “pain because of everything” and the “cure for everything”. I tried to warn them about indoctrination, acculturation, imitation of what is offered as sacred without further argument than the identity of belonging. Science against market and culture. Freedom from the critic, explorer, rigorous knowledge.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The brain is very interesting and sells audience in the media but we must move the media away from our bodies. It's a mental thing, not a body thing. Health is not a game. No speeches. Solutions, solutions ...</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"And then straightaway</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">he put on his hat, brandished his sword,</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">sand with a sidelong glance, stole off."</div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-81152930064581777732011-03-23T06:47:00.000-07:002011-03-23T06:47:17.133-07:00Pain, depression and helplessness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-wL4el3KcMeE/TYbt1PkFPrI/AAAAAAAABA4/CDTEf65LD0g/s400/muralla.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-wL4el3KcMeE/TYbt1PkFPrI/AAAAAAAABA4/CDTEf65LD0g/s320/muralla.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Helplessness is produced when something that affects one isn’t comprehensible, predictable or controllable.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unjustified chronic or recurrent discouragement or pain meet those conditions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no adequate interpretative framework. The “when”, “how much”, “where” and “why” are not predictable, and the sufferer has no resources to control it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sufferer is not only helpless, but judged and convicted in a certain way because it’s considered that he has reached this situation by himself (genes and bad self-management). It’s also expected that the unprotected, given that he can’t overcome it, carries the situation with dignity and doesn’t disturb other’s good vibes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The aching-discouraged person doesn’t understand what is happening. They are telling her she has nothing. There is no reason for wail and reluctance. It's an impossible situation to overcome. Being well and feeling awful. That’s why the sufferer prefers doctors to find something, to give her disease labels. Labels that don’t contribute anything. They rather strengthen the helplessness. They contain the condition of the stigma, the unsolvable. They refer to past mistakes or mysterious ailments. The label relieves when it’s received, but mortgages in medium and long term. It precipitates the condition of disability (if successful in achieving it).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pain and despair emerge in an unpredictable, chaotic way. The sufferer uses the breaks to get a fleeting breath of life before the suspicious eyes of the fellows that don’t understand how one can have the nerve to live with pain and apathetically. The brain participates in this condemnation and waits to the end of that break to apply the punishment for the ad lib of disease.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sufferers are showered with remedies and tips, balms and encouragement, generally useless. The fellows are upset by the resistance to improvement and shrug with a clear conscience of having done everything in their power and with the suspicion that the sufferer is not "doing his part".</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The professionals are optimistic about themselves. They proclaim new remedies, spectacular advances. They show pictures of the brain, making the deficits and excesses blush. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sufferer is confident, especially if she is a beginner in the condition. She tries everything with decreasing hope and money. Her suffering advances in direct proportion to what the promises of a solution are said to advance.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The body becomes the jailer of the sufferer. This person has become incompetent and dangerous, someone who should not be granted opportunities, as nothing good is expected seeing the status of the muscle-skeletal system, the serotonin, memory, energy and fellows.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pain and discouragement are the hired assassins of a catastrophic brain who prefers to see the individual in a cage. The helplessness lets the cage doors be open. No guards are needed. The sufferer has resigned to flee. He only wants to be left in peace in his retreat, brooding his helpless condition in which nothing is understood, predicted or resolved.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s hard to push the helpless, make them see that they should react, try to understand, predict and control.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It’s not a disease. It’s your brain. It has built an idea of a helpless, vulnerable, incompetent body. The brain is a virtual organ, like the immune system. They often see danger and failure where there isn’t. Don’t collaborate with them when they are wrong. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s assumed that the sufferer goes to the doctor’s office with many questions to ask, eager for quality responses.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The patient exposes his symptoms, condition, disability, the way in which pain is marking his anguish.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems that the presentation is over and it's time for the professional to give explanations.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Tell me, doctor ...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Let’s see...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One has to be paying attention to capture the lack of attention. The sufferer may still be entangled in his story looking for more and more details.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- You’re not listening to me ...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Yes doctor. How wouldn’t I listen to you...!</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Well, what was I saying?</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The patient has retained some sounds and repeats them, but has not grasped the concept that one wants to expose. He wasn’t paying attention to what he had to.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without attention, the brain catches a few unconnected words over which later it reconstructs a story from its expectations and beliefs. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I've been to a neurologist. He told me that...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If one hasn’t paid attention, what is said to have been said, in fact, corresponds with what one says to oneself about what another one is supposed to be saying. We are slaves of our narrative. In it, we put the characters with their dialogues...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I told him, he told me...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s advisable to make a minimum of checks.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Let's see. What basic idea have you caught?</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In many cases you’ll get the surprise that none has been recorded or, even worse, you have managed to record right the opposite of what one was trying to explain.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The brain ... hurts because I want it to hurt ... it’s psychological ... I get obsessed ... I’ll just forget that it hurts...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The commitment of active listening is required. The attention should be focused on what the professional is attempting to communicate, free of preconceptions, pre-meditated interpretations.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Pay attention. Switch yourself off and listen. If you disagree or don’t grasp the content, let me know. Ask.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The office is, sometimes, a classroom. Sufferer and professional take turns in the roles of teacher and student. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Listen to me, pay attention. I’ll explain my pain to you.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Now you listen to me. I’ll explain the biology of pain ...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I vaguely remember an extraordinary book about muscle diseases. As time went by I’m only left with the thought I started the prologue with:</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Listen carefully to the patient. He’s trying desperately to tell you what’ss happening ..."</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Absolutely agree, but it should be complemented with another similar thought for the sufferer:</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Listen carefully to the professional. He’s trying to patiently explain the reason of what’s happening ..."</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, let’s suppose this is true, at least in some cases. Don’t miss them.</span></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-23711122282768165082011-03-16T05:39:00.000-07:002011-03-16T05:39:55.118-07:00Receptors of consummated or imminent necrosis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-oxmR9JhtdIs/TXcbcXNUZsI/AAAAAAAABAM/qRtv23V4Dpo/s400/proteinas-membrana-lipidos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" r6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-oxmR9JhtdIs/TXcbcXNUZsI/AAAAAAAABAM/qRtv23V4Dpo/s320/proteinas-membrana-lipidos.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are no pain receptors. Only perceptors, ie, suffering, receiving, addressee individuals of that hurting event that arises from the brain to catch your attention and behavioral involvement in a threat assessment. Danger! Pain!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What DO exist are the ones called NOCI-CEPTORS by Nobel Laureate Charles Sherrington: noxiousness detectors. That was back in 1906.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nociceptors are neurons that specialize in the detection of states and agents with a violent destructive capacity: extreme temperatures, mechanical energy that’s higher than the physical strength of tissues, acids, lack of oxygen ... Danger-detecting neurons are distributed over the surface and inside of the body and on their terminals they have receptors or sensors of dangerous stimuli. The receptors are proteins embedded in the membrane that, when contacting with a noxious agent, suffer a transformation that leads to the opening of a channel through which ions enter, ie, an electrical current. This electrical signal is transmitted to various processing centers and contains information on risk in a particular point. The danger may be mechanical, thermal or chemical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under normal conditions, nociceptors are only stimulated with what violently destroys tissues. If there are no extreme temperatures, acids, low oxygen or destructive mechanical stimuli, no signal is generated. There are no alerts of damage projected to the brain. Usually, the projection of pain doesn’t arise from the brain. The alarm doesn’t go off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When a noxious agent has destroyed tissue, the dead cells (necrosated) release molecules that induce a change in the sensitivity of nociceptors. They make them respond to innocuous stimuli. Touching a wound generates a signal in sensitized nociceptors. Information on activated nociceptors reaches the brain and the brain projects pain on that area. While proceeding to repair the injury, the area is sensitive, with the population of nociceptors adapted to the state of vulnerability.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the injury is being repaired, nociceptors go back to their basal state and innocuous stimuli stop generating signals. The brain is no longer informed with news of danger. The brain doesn’t project pain, it warns. The individual resumes normal activity. End of the repair process. Tissues in condition to be used. Innocuous stimuli no longer activate the nociceptors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nociceptors respond to local, real, actual danger at that time and place. If there is necrosis (violent cell death) or if it’s about to happen if the conditions don’t change inmediately, (I quickly move my hand away of the burning pan) the danger and consummated necrosis sensors generate a signal and, predictably, this will be enough to activate the perception of pain from the brain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nociceptors also respond to the prediction of danger from the various processing centers. The indication of warning, vulnerability, can be generated from above, memory and prediction systems and induce sensitization. Innocuous stimuli will generate a signal of nociceptors even when nothing dangerous is happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The central alert states, activated by threat assessment in the absence of consummate or imminent harm, facilitate the traffic and generation of nociceptor signals. The pain is projected from the brain in advance with no need of prior injury notifications. There is only prediction. Enough to activate perceptive messages of pain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The central alert ends up sensitizing all the layers of processing, from the nociceptors to the conscious individual (the receptor of pain). There are warning signals everywhere. From the individual (“it hurts me”) to the sensitized nociceptor that generates a damage signal without damage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pain only certifies an assessment of danger. It doesn’t certify damage and the danger assessment doesn’t have to be correct.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is erroneous inflammation (allergy) and erroneous pain (migraine, fibromyalgia...). Nociceptors in erroneous pain are sensitized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It doesn’t hurt because there are sensitized nociceptors in the erroneous pain. It’s not the nociceptors that are wrong and have been activated for no reason. It hurts because the nociceptive system as a whole has generated a condition assessed as threatening. This includes global sensitization.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes it’s all about the facts, the burn, infection, lack of oxygen, consummated or inminent necrosis. Other times it’s about memories, fears, uncertainty, misinformation, unjustified neuronal alarmism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The professional must assess both factors: vulnerable tissues and/or sensitizing brains and try to deactivate alarms, giving back the normal condition to the tissues and a reasonable confidence to the assessment centers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The goal is not analgesia at any price, but the recovery of the integrity and body management from a reasonable management of danger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maintaining the security of the building with a chronically turned on alarm makes no sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neither does disabling the siren to generate the fiction that if it doesn’t sound, there are no thieves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The nociceptor is not a pain receptor, whoever says so...</span>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-70752694451205992602011-03-10T05:25:00.000-08:002011-03-10T09:53:39.480-08:00The mystery of the mysterious diseases<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hJeyVbsZONE/TXhqUuzKUCI/AAAAAAAABAQ/vt1DV61njmU/s400/sobrepesobotero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" q6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hJeyVbsZONE/TXhqUuzKUCI/AAAAAAAABAQ/vt1DV61njmU/s320/sobrepesobotero.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Migraine, fibromyalgia, are diseases whose origin and cure are unknown. That’s what they say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why it hurts so much and so often really is a mystery if what the doctors say is true: that there is nothing abnormal in the time, space and circumstance of pain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It shouldn’t hurt you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s the same with pain and other perceptions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I’m hungry every day and every hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- You shouldn’t be hungry. You are well-nourished. Over-nourished, I would say...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s the mystery of why some citizens’ hunger increases when they eat, rather than diminish it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I’m more and more hungry. I don’t understand it. No food fixes it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The brain is a perception manager. It projects hunger, pain, heat, cold, dizziness, fatigue, boredom, euphoria ... for reasons that we don’t always understand. If we have been several days without food it’s understandable that the brain reminds us, with hunger, that the body needs energy, but it doesn’t make sense for the brain to project the urge to eat on us if we are a little overweight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The disease of chronic, unwarranted hunger is a mystery. The researchers track the chemistry of hunger in search of molecules that turn the need into a compulsive addiction. They always find one and make the media bells sound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those molecules are also found in that kind of pain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The researchers are optimistic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- In recent years there has been considerable progress in the understanding of pain. In the future we’ll have new drugs. Controlling the suffering won’t be a problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The problem of the future is that it’s never present in this issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The issue of hunger is not improving. Every day thousands of people die because of chronic insatiable hunger. The problem may even be getting worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pain also wreaks havoc. Every day thousands of citizens die by chronic, insatiable consumption of analgesics. The problem may even go from bad to worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reasonable, economic management of perceptual resources is not guaranteed. The brain doesn’t have a smart natural condition. Rather the opposite. It’s the individual’s job to channel the brain’s biological dynamics, selected for harsh and competitive environments, and adapt them to the universe of “everything is a hundred yards tall” and be safe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are children hunger and chronic pain, insatiable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some believe that everything is because of the inconsistency between what the alarmist genetics claims and what the culture of abundance offers. The human molecules of pain and hunger are the same as those of flies and worms in the laboratory. We should to track the differences between cultures.</span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Culture, you say? Children have no culture, but they have migraine and fibromyalgia. It’s the genes and the undisclosed mysterious thing. There are entire families affected by this.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Curious and erroneous idea of culture. It seems that there can’t be cultural impregnation until we access the "use of reason".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sapiens brain (ma non troppo) is, by what genetics dictate, candid, imitating and “schoolable”. It absorbs culture since the first hours of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Parents, teachers and friends are always around the child projecting words and examples, said and dones. The child's brain is a pasive schoolchild that takes everything that happens and hears in order to process it according to rules we don’t know about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week a patient came to my office with migraine, neck pain, rather chubby, moderately discouraged and she was a smoker. She did a good job of schooling in "my brain and it’s “I”" ... She no longer has migraines, her neck doesn’t hurt (there was also a great pedagogical work of two excellent "neurophysic therapists") she has earned a few anti-kilos, she is courageous after quitting the antidepressants she no longer absurdly inhales addictive toxic smoke.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is an ideal patient, intelligent and hardworking.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For her there is no more mystery. It's all simple. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-34603063390377293602011-03-09T04:16:00.000-08:002011-03-09T04:16:46.057-08:00Pain perceptors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_ozHLteoxAI/TXR5vHvopgI/AAAAAAAABAI/TZKmK7kRQAM/s400/anestesia2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_ozHLteoxAI/TXR5vHvopgI/AAAAAAAABAI/TZKmK7kRQAM/s400/anestesia2.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pain doesn’t exist without an addressee who feels it, a perceptor. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The perceptor of pain is the individual in conscious state. The brain can turn on and off the individual’s consciousness. If there is no consciousness, no pain is possible.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The pain wakes me up at night ...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The phrase is not correct. No pain is possible while one is sleeping. The same happens with general anesthesia. No patient wakes up in the middle of surgery due to pain. The anesthesiologist is the one who decides to wake up the patient, thus allowing what the brain is projecting at that moment to reach consciousness. For example, pain. The brain gives and removes the general anesthesia. Turns on and off circuits that generate a perception in the real space-time.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I don’t think it hurts when I’m asleep.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The idea that the pain arises from tissues is deeply rooted. The tissues are there, day and night. If they hurt, for any inconvenience, it wakes us up ... but it’s not true that pain arises from tissues. It always arises from the brain. Before the brain, there can’t be pain. After the brain, anything is possible. An amputee arm can hurt, an arm that no longer exists. It's called the "phantom limb pain".</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Think it doesn’t hurt and that way it will hurt less ...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pain perceptor can’t impose its will. As much as one wants to imagine that it hurts, it doesn’t. Imagination can’t dissolve the perceived pain either. You can’t open your eyes in front of a person and imagine that that person doesn’t exist. Neither can you imagine the person and see him, as if he were there.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The pain receptor...</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are no pain receptors no matter how much the texts in which Medicine students are instructed keep quoting and describing them. There are perceptors, ie individuals. Pain is a private, exclusive matter of the individual in a conscious, perceptive state. There are no receptors for Chanel No. 5 or fried eggs. Only perceptors, individuals who perceive the scent from their own brains with their exclusive screens.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is a pain perceptor?</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have no idea. Consciousness is a mysterious area, unattainable at the moment.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consciousness is an attentional state of the brain. There, it’s projected what at that time, place and circumstances the brain selects in order to propose a specific action to the individual.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It hurts, so the brain projects a proposal of defensive behaviour on consciousness.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You are hungry, so the brain proposes to take a bite.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It itches, so the brain proposes some scratching.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It stops hurting, so the brain has ceased to assess threat.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Painkillers don’t protect the tissues. Rather the opposite: they make them vulnerable. If the pain subsides with any therapy, it’s not because what hurts went back to normal, but because the therapeutic action has made the brain modify its assessment.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cerebral projection of pain has its moments, places and circumstances represented in memory systems. A weekend is just another moment. It doesn’t contain any ingredients of injury on the head, in spite of all the stress accumulated at work from Monday to Saturday. If the weekend is coded as "danger", "alert", on Saturday morning the pain perceptor will receive the message.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Researchers are striving to discover new drugs that block the supposed pain receptors. Strange task to block something that doesn’t exist.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We should find a way to neutralize the perceptor by diverting their attention to a particular task. Sometimes it’s effective. The ideal would be to act on the pain projector, on the brain, deactivating the plot of the expectations and beliefs that feed that cerebral proposal of protecting something from a phantom, nonexistent threat.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have a thousand possible ways of tricking the brain, but there is only one to make it see what is really happening: explaining to it that in the absence of injury, wherever it hurts, NOTHING happens.</span></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-42913895880105545032011-03-07T03:20:00.000-08:002011-03-07T03:20:45.301-08:00Rationalize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-xqy9yKKof8s/TXCCCdlo6CI/AAAAAAAABAE/czLil7oLgPQ/s400/AULA+ESCOLAR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" q6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-xqy9yKKof8s/TXCCCdlo6CI/AAAAAAAABAE/czLil7oLgPQ/s320/AULA+ESCOLAR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I think I understand. It makes sense. I think what you explained is true. But... what should I do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A patient with migraine came to my office. Sitting next to me was a resident that was skeptical about the approach. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How you doing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Okay. I haven’t had any more migraines. I don’t take meds. Sometimes I feel some pain but I control it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Explain to the doctor how you do it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I rationalize. I think quickly about what I’ve learned. I know that nothing is happening and I concentrate on what I'm doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are instructed in the idea that something should necessarily be done to dissolve the pain. That something may be introducing a molecule with supposed powers to neutralize a supposed chemical responsible for pain: a needle, a herbal infusion, homeopathic products, meditation ... Something added, aimed specifically at returning to normal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my office, I explain the basics of neurology of pain. Two objectives: dissolving errors and providing reliable knowledge. The perception of pain without justification has been activated. The brain has overestimated the probability of a destructive event. It’s not true that there is necessarily something wrong. The evaluative error is enough. False alarm. The apparent effectiveness of the reliever just indicates that the brain required the action of taking it and that this has dissolved the (wrong) assessment of threat. Nocebo to activate the alarm and placebo to deactivate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why does it hurt?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Nocebo effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How do I fight the nocebo?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- There are two ways: with placebo (doing something) or the conviction that nothing happens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I know that nothing is happening but even so... it hurts. At the end I have to take the painkiller. I need it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under experimental conditions we can get that when an inert cream is applied to the forearm before undergoing stimuli generators of pain (laser, heat ...) the pain perception increases or decreases by changing one word of information:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- With the cream, you’ll feel <u><strong>less</strong></u> pain ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- With the cream, you’ll feel <u><strong>more</strong></u> pain ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s the same cream. A spoken word is a mechanical stimulus that generates a wave train that the ear captures ... A change in the wave train is enough to increase or decrease pain. We can write information: <strong><u>more</u></strong>... <strong><u>less</u></strong>... In this case the word generates a subtly different light stimulus, sufficient to induce <strong><u>more</u></strong> or <strong><u>less</u></strong> of pain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pain therapies activate previously built expectations, by own experience, observing others' experiences and instruction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The observation of an analgesic action by placebo facilitates the placebo in our own flesh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The duration of pain after the application of noxious stimuli varies if we trick the clock (one lap of the hands in 45 seconds.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knowing that a placebo was given doesn’t eliminate the analgesic action. The brain calls for action even knowing that such action doesn’t have anything relevant. Placebo. Deception. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pedagogy of pain seeks to dissolve the false belief networks that feed the activation of false alarms. It seeks to dissolve the “nocebo-ness”, informative and cultural viruses. One of those viruses is the one that requires the therapeutic action, the cleansing ritual, the antidote to what (supposedly) makes it hurt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The antidote for the nocebo is not placebo but the anti-nocebo, the anti-virus, not the virus of opposite sign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I understand, but I don’t know how to change my mindset...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- You’ll need to find out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As Sol del Val said, everyone has their personal migraine and should explore it from the new interpretive frame provided by neurobiology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paradoxically, the patients with most migraines, most rebellious to treatment have a better response. They work in advance. They have tried all the therapies and are already disappointed. They need something new, different, contrary to what they so far have been provided. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rationalization doesn’t have a good reputation. We forget the emotional part. There's always someone ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An emotion is a state in which the organism assesses relevance, transcendence. Pain is the expression of the most powerful emotional state of the organism: the possibility of cell death, necrosis. Irrational fear is fought with rationality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I rationalize. I think about what I’ve learned. I continue with my homework.</span>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-32162646180076020232011-03-03T05:26:00.001-08:002011-03-07T03:21:32.713-08:00Me, myself and I<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-d9ruCtf5KDU/TWyN91HwSVI/AAAAAAAAA_8/mAcThA-dOxM/s400/suero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-d9ruCtf5KDU/TWyN91HwSVI/AAAAAAAAA_8/mAcThA-dOxM/s400/suero.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I don’t want it to hurt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s a precision that I often hear in my office. My attempts to explain the biology of pain, the cerebral imaginative process, fail in many cases. The “I” of the moment has felt alluded and has misinterpreted the speech. The victim has felt pointed out as guilty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It’s not you. It’s your brain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- My brain is ME.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Yeah, right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If it hurts it means that the brain assesses threat. It’s a system of neurons from which states of connectivity emerge, groups of synapses (contact points between neurons) that sizzle at the same time, generating different perceptions. Pain is one of them. The brain "decides" it hurts. It wants it to hurt. It wants it because it considers that the individual should put aside his or her issues and focus on the danger that at that time, as predicted by the memories, is in a body area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I don’t understand why MY brain would want ME to suffer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- YOUR brain has been selected throughout evolution to, among other things, ensure the safety of the organism. It does that by creating hypotheses of danger, uncertainty, risk, probability. It's like your bodyguard. Don’t ask it for rationality. Fear isn’t always rational. Brains are fearful, depending on how fearful or daring the individual living in that body is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I need a solution, something to take away the pain. Last week I had to go to the emergency room to have someone give me meds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- We must do something about your brain. Calm its absurd fears. The pain intensity is telling you to what extent the brain is scared. If you must go to the emergency room it’s because your brain requires it to calm down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In security issues, we can easily access the unconscious, without hypnosis, divans or deep meditations. Somatic perception shows meanings of neuronal processing. Hungry? the brain wants you to eat ... Itchy? your brain wants you to scratch yourself... Pain? your brain wants you to stay still and take YOUR reliever ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The function of pain is not to delve once again into the wounds of the individual, as interpreted by the defenders of somatization or the psychosomatic. If the head hurts it’s because there is cerebral, somatic fear to something physical, terrible, happening at that time in the head. If it hurts after a heartbreak it means that the brain considers the heartbreak a threat to the physical integrity of the head. Neither food nor hormonal changes, or the hassles at work or sentimental failures contain the immediate risk of causing a brain hemorrhage or meningeal infection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Yes. I DON’T think so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Yes ... but your brain is acting "as if" all those triggers contained that threat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The situation is similar to the one of the Immune System, the other alarmist system that sees danger everywhere ... until proven otherwise. The vigilant immune cells carry in their membrane protein receptors-detectors. Each cell clone is dedicated to detecting one of them. It fixes it on the membrane, digests it and presents suspect areas that should be assessed in the network. Sometimes that protein is the cat’s, pollen’s or house dust mites’. If the immune “brain" believes that this protein belongs to a hazardous agent, it will decide to release the production of the clone to defend the body from an imaginary, absurd danger. Neither the cat, nor pollen or mites release germs, but for the body, for the immune system, there is danger of infection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The “I” doesn’t have problems accepting the responsibility of YOUR immune system in an allergic reaction, but the same doesn’t happen with YOUR brain. It doesn’t let other people talk badly about it. It feels alluded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It can’t be MY brain. I'M not like that...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday I saw a patient that had come three years ago because of migraine. After the first visit, she decided not to come back. She went around taking painkillers, needles, homeopathy, herbs, diet, yoga and others until she ended up in the emergency room and had to come back to the Neurology office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I don’t want it to hurt me. What I need is a solution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think she finally realized that she hadn’t understood the first time she came. I’ll tell you how it goes...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The SELF is tough. The brain is a tricky construction. Otherwise the brain could not make the individual do whatever it wants:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For example, going to the emergency room for some meds ... </span>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-82053941946103048612011-03-02T05:39:00.000-08:002011-03-02T05:39:06.517-08:00Neurovigilance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A-LF5I7E-mI/TW4i6ojqMXI/AAAAAAAABAA/Iyi867JnNe4/s400/darwin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" l6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A-LF5I7E-mI/TW4i6ojqMXI/AAAAAAAABAA/Iyi867JnNe4/s400/darwin.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The brain exists because it has helped us survive as individuals and as a species. The massive brain of the sapiens (ma non troppo) is there because it proved its value as a navigator through the uncertain world of evolution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sapiens (m.n.t.) brain was born with many circuits but with a lot to learn. The programs’ modulation is pending: the what, when, how, where, why and for what of almost everything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before there were neurons, the immune system cells used to detect proteins-signals of danger (germs, cancer cells, uncertain cells, cell corpses). They would only respond in the presence of those signals. Often, too late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neurons provided the possibility of establishing a correlation between physicochemical signals of all types and potential danger before the harmfulness contacted the organism. Neurons had the ability to convert the internal and external variables into appetitive reflex actions (food, family) or aversive (predators, fire, traumas). Distant smoke that gives away the fire. Smell, sight, hearing, touch, taste, attributed value to the environment promoting adapted behaviours of rejection or getting closer. All this with time and space between them. Warnings, premonitions ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Immunovigilance analyzes the danger of the agent by feeling its molecular signals of identity with the receptors of the vigilant cells’ membrane. The neurovigilance feels the agents through physicochemical variables that they generate in the environment: reflected light, mechanical vibrations, volatile substances. Neurons see, hear and smell the danger before it shows up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In many cases, the dangerous agent appears docked to harmless states and agents. The neurons take notes of the scenario in which there may be something relevant, positive or negative and register all types of signals that coincide in time and space with it. If immediately after the sound of a bell the food arrives, hearing the bell will be enough to make the salivary glands to start salivating. If we associate the sound of a bell with an electric shock, hearing the bell will be enough to run away. Hearing bells is both for activating the salivary glands and activating the fight-flight response.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neuronal preventive capacity gained from own experience was expanded through distant observation and covered from the adversity of others. Neurons learned how to sense the harm in others’ events. It’s an emotional, empathetic feeling. Otherwise it wouldn’t be useful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the sapiens (mnt) brain, all those features of the conditioned reflexes (bells, saliva and electric shock) and empathy with the exciting events of others weren’t enough. We are a fragile and vulnerable species, without armor, claws, poison or speed. We need more security. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Living things associate when they feel threatened. They turn into multi-individual organisms, societies, following informational signals that express stress, adversity that is unbeatable on their own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, sapiens organized in bands that increased and/or reduced capacities. Something to share was, undoubtedly, information. The sapiens (mnt) brain became compulsively gossipy, nosy, story teller, plus imitative and empathic. Now not only could it sense others’ events by seeing and hearing them from a distance. The story inside the group appeared, in the heat, in the place of the events and and in the cold, in the den. Gestures, shouting ... and finally, language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sapiens (mnt) brain needed time and rest to process all that huge amount of uncertain signals about danger. Sensations, observations and stories ... Too much uncertainty ... It promoted space-times of ruminant reflection of all that material, all that the conscious and alert individual let free. Dreaming, sleepiness, mental wandering are universes in which the brain seeks order, regularity, analogies, associations, causes, probabilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The representation of the world in a virtual, dreamed, imagined environment, generated new hypotheses that proposed a theory of events, their causes and remedies. Some individuals were born touched by the ability to sense, guess, interpret, predict, advise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their imagination created doctrine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Expert and/or illuminated information provided certainty and uncertainty to the network. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The vigilant brain integrates all those evolutive levels of knowledge (own experience, observation of others’ events, stories, doctrines) and turns on perceptions, emotions and actions while all that complex imaginative world assesses at each space-time the probability of an event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The neurovigilance needs rest to order so much information, but maybe it needs, above all, a criterion to filter incredible knowledge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Newton gave mechanical order. I’m not really sure of what Einstein said. For many people, he opened the door to free will. Everything is relative, they say he said. Some believe that this authorizes any proposal of truth. Everything is true and false. You choose. Freud warned about the brain basements but opened the door to somatization as a universal explanation. Darwin reminded us that we are shared history. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps we already need a substantial blow of knowledge in such an important subject as neurovigilance. Perhaps we need to know about the socialized, educated, culturized brain,.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the moment they speak about evolutionary botch jobs, about proteins that reuptake serotonin, the drug of happiness, thus preventing our good mood. Luckily we have found the necessary antidote, the inhibitor of serotonin reuptake. That way, the serotonin will stay a few more milliseconds in the synapses, blowing sanity and happiness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Someone suggested more Plato and less Prozac. I’m not sure. I'll stick with Newton and Darwin. I don’t get Einstein and Freud’s somatization doesn’t convince me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For now, I’m glad that I have a protein that reuptakes serotonin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prozac? No, thanks.</span>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-64538134524541495672011-02-28T14:37:00.000-08:002011-02-28T14:37:15.962-08:00Primary and secondary pain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bYnWBtamlOw/TWs4ER2mLnI/AAAAAAAAA_4/NQCQuvXrU8Y/s400/clasificacion.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bYnWBtamlOw/TWs4ER2mLnI/AAAAAAAAA_4/NQCQuvXrU8Y/s320/clasificacion.gif" width="231" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The “classifiers” distinguish between primary and secondary pain. The latter arise as a result of damage in the place where we feel pain, and the firsts appear without us detecting anything relevant where it hurts.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are primary headaches (migraine, tension headache ...) and secondary (tumor, hemorrhage, bump ...).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Primary pain is supposed to have origins, even when they aren’t tangible. Migraine, they say, arises from some genes that build hypersensitive cerebral generators of migraines. Tension headaches are generated by states of anxiety, nerves that contract muscles excessively. Primary pain is actually secondary. The pain comes from something. That’s what the patients always say.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s not clear whether the "spine" pain is primary or not, without a tangible cause. If something hurts, it’s taken for granted that one’s lower back or neck isn’t well. Mechanics, loads, physical effort, postures, wear, years are what matter. The "bone pain", depending on the point of view, is primary or secondary. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- My bones ache ...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The statement stands for itself. It could be a primary pain derived from the condition of the bones, which is hurting themselves.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The bones don’t hurt ...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If one wants to lose the confidence of the patient, all he/she has to do is that staggering claim. However, it is so. Bones don’t hurt. The pain may arise from harmful events of the bones, events that generate neuronal signals that reach the brain areas able to project the perception of pain in the conscious display of the individual. The "bone pain" would, therefore, always be secondary.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- When the weather changes, my bones can feel it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time is to the bones the same as nerves are to the head. The primary headache would be secondary to the overwhelm, and the primary bones would be secondary to the cold and damp.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Something similar happens with discouragement. Depression can be primary, without an apparent reason, or secondary to a depressing event. Psychiatrists prefer to call the primary endogenous and the secondary exogenous.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've never understood the difference between endogenous-exogenous or primary-secondary. What is perceived is always the result of a complex cerebral evaluation process. There is always a decision of the network.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I have a primary pain for no reason. They say it’s the brain, which has its reasons to turn it on, but I don’t know them. The MRI is normal. There really is no reason. The brain is wrong.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Exactly. The primary pain is a secondary pain to an erroneous cerebral evaluation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are primary and secondary people. A primary person is someone we can see without there being a person. If we take a picture of where we see them, they don’t appear in the picture. A secondary person is the one we see for the simple reason that he or she is really there. He/she is in the picture.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- A hallucination?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Yes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is primary pain in the absence of states and agents that activate the nociceptor network. We are sorry, but on the area of the disease there is nothing relevant, harmful.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- A hallucination?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Technically it is a hallucination, but don’t go around saying that...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pain without harm, hunger without malnutrition, cold without low temperature, loneliness in a crowd ... are primary. The necessary and sufficient objective condition to be explained and understood is not given.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don’t like the classification of primary-secondary, endogenous-exogenous. I prefer to distinguish between perceptions-right productive choices, and wrong-unproductive.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is pain, discouragement, cold, hunger, dizziness; unnecessary, disabling, sterile, pure pathological tiredness. They are secondary to an erroneous assessment of relevance-probability, that is ... primary, as “classifiers” claim.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is pain, discouragement, cold, heat, hunger, tiredness ... that are necessary, convenient to guide the behaviour of the individual in the right direction. Secondary, exogenous, justified ...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The content of what is perceived does not guarantee its objectivity. There may not always be people where we see them. People may not always be where we see them. The MRI may always be normal wherever we feel pain.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- There is a threatening man in the living room.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Let's see ... There’s no one. He’s a primary man...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- What do I do? What do I tell him to go away?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Don’t pay attention to something that doesn’t exist. If you do so, you’re lost.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Checking account balances are sometimes negative. Classifiers distinguish between the primary negative, which appears without one finding the reason for it, and others that arise after a lavish expenditure.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Negative checking accounts express the balance between what goes in and out over time. The usual expenditure is enough for the alarm to go off, without us getting any benefit from it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The brain manages our account. It doesn’t need to run out of money. If it considers that we shouldn’t spend it, it blocks our account without further explanation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I’ve been feeling discouraged lately. I don’t get it, everything is right ...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Everything hurts, always, and they can’t find anything.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The primary is that way... Homo sapiens (ma non troppo) is perhaps a more primary species than we think ...</span>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-57751057784043055322011-02-26T11:09:00.000-08:002011-02-26T11:09:15.747-08:00Hyperalgesia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TaaxOv6d90o/TWSjhFch8cI/AAAAAAAAA_w/7Kr37mfVgF0/s400/tension_arterial.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="278" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TaaxOv6d90o/TWSjhFch8cI/AAAAAAAAA_w/7Kr37mfVgF0/s320/tension_arterial.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I have a high rate of pain. Everything hurts, always.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pain is a perception that should emerge only in situations of damage that require protective behavior of tissue integrity. We should only open our umbrella when it’s raining. Always carrying an open umbrella just in case it starts raining is not a good idea.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I always have high blood pressure.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hypertension is only justified when we are in a situation that requires a blood flow rate that ensures the blood supply to tissues to cope with certain situations. Giraffes have high blood pressure. Otherwise, blood would not reach their head. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sustained hypertension ends up damaging the arteries. It’s important to control it with drugs and healthy lifestyles.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now they say that continued, chronic pain, ends up damaging the brain and, the same way it happens with blood pressure, it should be controlled with drugs and healthy lifestyles.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a problem with that proposal: the chronic use of analgesics is a major cause of mortality. An analgesic is an addictive toxic.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Control your pain. Don’t take too many analgesics. Ask your doctor.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I have already asked. She tells me to always take the medicine early.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pain is considered (erroneously) as something that arises from tissues and that when it reaches the brain it generates disrupted, neuronal stress that ends up shrinking the cortex. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I’m hungry. Always. I would eat anything.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Eat something. Don’t wait. Hunger ends up creating health problems.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food is effective in controlling short-term hunger, but it prepares more future hunger. What affects health is not always feeling hungry but always eating, obeying the brain’s requirement.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Give me something so I’m not hungry. I don’t want to be eating all day. I’m gaining weight. Food has side effects.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The role of hunger is to encourage the individual to seek and swallow food. The role of pain is to encourage us to stay still.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It hurts.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Don’t move.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I need to move. Give me something for it to stop hurting so I can move.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other times, the brain uses pain to avoid the individual standing still.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I can’t lay still in bed. I need to move my legs or get up and walk. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Get up.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I need to be in bed in order to sleep. Give me something for it to stop hurting so I can stay still.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- You have the "restless legs syndrome".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The restless legs syndrome is one of many syndromes of cerebral anxiety and restlessness. Nothing is wrong with the legs. There are no problems of circulation or any other kind. It’s the brain that expresses its concern at the scene of nightly rest and prefers, God knows why, the individual to stay awake, exploring the world, alert. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I’m sad and I don’t know why.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Do something interesting and enjoyable.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I don’t feel like it. Give me something so I feel like it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The brain is dangerous for the individual. It’s not always right in its assessments. The ancestral fear of harm and failure makes it protect us too much, for no reason. It forces us to always carry an open umbrella for the fear that something will wet us or that we will stay, unwilling, at home. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We must know that there is a pathology of cerebral decisions, the policy of preventive excess. The individual must know that the management of the organism's programs is in the hands of a system that can make serious strategy errors.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I’m worried about my brain. I’m bored of its alarmism and its catastrophist predictions.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Don’t mind it. Trust the real situation of your tissues. Don’t open your umbrella. It’s a lovely day. There isn’t a single cloud. The forecast for this entire week is of good weather.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Can’t you give me something for the catastrophic brain?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Common sense. Confidence. Rationality. Knowledge.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Not for me. I was referring to some kind of therapy ...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cerebral catastrophism and pessimism generate a system of neural activity that, if maintained in a chronic way, can cause cortical thinning and tonsil fattening. Boredom turns off hippocampal neurogenesis. Neurons need a nice atmosphere, good vibes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes all we need is to wise up...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Give me something for the “wising-up” ... With all the advances we have today, isn’t there anything for this...?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- No. </span>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-11118787860233406602011-02-22T08:02:00.000-08:002011-02-22T08:03:01.790-08:00Control imagination<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Amk5pH2UDr4/TWNymagubwI/AAAAAAAAA_s/J7JcA5tMqP8/s400/espejismoo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Amk5pH2UDr4/TWNymagubwI/AAAAAAAAA_s/J7JcA5tMqP8/s320/espejismoo.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><h3 id="internal-source-marker_0.46700708261390605" style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></h3><h3 id="internal-source-marker_0.46700708261390605" style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></h3><h3 id="internal-source-marker_0.46700708261390605" style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The brain receives information from the world (external and internal) through an extensive network of physical-chemical sensors. With the provided data, the ongoing interaction with reality and its impact (in our own flesh and others’) and what the wise and enlightened say about it, the brain builds a theory about the facts of the past, present and future and their relevance.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The available real-time information is partial, fragmentary, wrapped in considerable background noise. The brain has to fill gaps and solve uncertainties with imagination. It dreams, emulates reality, represents it on the blackboard of its circuits. With the individual turned off, with closed eyes and deactivated muscles, the cerebral dream has no moorings, no limits. When opening the eyes and reactivating movement, everything the brain imagined must abide by what the senses dictate.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The brain has books with missing chapters, chapters with missing pages, pages with missing paragraphs, paragraphs with missing words and words with missing letters, some of them somewhat confusing. That is the way it is and, with it, the brain has to draw conclusions about the possible-probable complete book that someone wrote. The remains can’t be deleted. The account must be respected. Controlled and constrained imagination by the demands of the sensory script.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The cerebral imaginative process is inevitable. It flows without a break. Imagining is a physiological neuronal activity as necessary as any other of the body (breathing, renal filtration, digestion...). Not always the imaginative process is connected, subjected to what the senses provide. If we are not focused intently on a task, the imaginative areas are activated and work once again reviewing one’s biography and others’, the future, the "what the others will say". It's the so-called "default mode" or daydreaming. It lets us act automatically while the mind wanders in virtual reality by the uncertain probability, by the turn to the past and the future.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagining the outside is relatively safe. Senses protect us from rantings. The interior is another matter. It’s a protected space in which everything must be controlled, regulated within narrow ranges of variation (homeostasis), but the brain is being bombarded by information on possible events and must be applied thoroughly to calculate probabilities of what it’s said to happen actually happening.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cerebral imagination about the interior is no longer controlled, limited by the sensor data, but fed by the calculation of probabilities, by expectations. The brain rewrites books never written, not respecting the remains of letters, words, paragraphs and chapters but sayings, beliefs, myths, fallacies, theories ... Processing is dedicated to segregate the believable from the unbelievable, with a strong bias to take the feared for granted. The theoretical possibility and the creeds impose their beliefs. Despite that everything inside will follow a sufficient, predictable and controllable course, the brain can be driven by fear and imagines all sorts of terrifying internal events.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The out-of-control cerebral imaginative process, self-fed, can go beyond the limits and cross the threshold of consciousness and appear as reality. A slight push of activity to the imaginative areas is enough to move from being a faint and brief shadow of reality to having perceptive substance, consciousness, appearance of reality.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- My head started aching.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When pain emerges into consciousness, the brain receives the information that it has done so. This gives credibility to the imagined. It hurts, then something (the feared) is happening.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brain and individual get into a spiral of agreement on the fact that something is going on. The belief System continues to inject more strength to the neural connections that used to build the virtual world and have crossed the limit. </span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- The pain is increasing ... It’s unbearable.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Something internal must be happening. Something harmful has crept inside. There’s nausea to eliminate it. </span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- I'm going to vomit.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The individual must be turned off but kept awake, alert, available, with the senses hypersensitive to any external stimulus. With no social interaction.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- I’m going to my room. Don’t talk to me, don’t turn on any lights... I have a migraine.</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Control imagination. Be aware of its existence. Control the expectations and beliefs, the calculation of probabilities, its schooling. </span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span> <br />
<h3 style="margin: 0pt 22pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing is going on in the head. They are imaginations of the brain. That's why it hurts so badly, with no limit.</span></span></h3>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-45558458346629176752011-02-21T16:11:00.000-08:002011-02-21T16:11:26.639-08:00The first brain of the day<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-13WA7uzzBYc/TV4H6_oU3vI/AAAAAAAAA_k/r9MIobgwqYA/s400/lobooo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-13WA7uzzBYc/TV4H6_oU3vI/AAAAAAAAA_k/r9MIobgwqYA/s320/lobooo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.593888436909765" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</span></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.593888436909765" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve already said that there are many brains adapted to each time, place and circumstance. Each brain is a state of connectivity that is deployed by synchronizing the shooting of a group of neuronal junction points </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(synapses).</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The brain of the night, the one of the dreams, is followed by the brain of the start-up, which evaluates the status of the organism in order to start a new day.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After being in a horizontal position and turned off in a minimal space of which we almost never fall, the brain of the start-up turns on the lights of consciousness, opens the way for sensory signals and cognitive flow, for the merged memories of past-present-future, and gives us the perceptive breakfast:</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hunger and urination ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is a diligent brain that wants to connect us with the world, with the standing position, work, coffee and toast. It competes with the lazy brain that encourages us to continue sleeping, horizontally ... The lazy brain projects dreams, fatigue, pessimism. By the inertia of horizontality it imposes the interpretation that the world is moving when we try to sit up and forces us to stay in bed, motionless, taken aback by dizziness.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The brain of transition from the still and horizontal nocturnal cloister of the bed to the vertical and lively of the day, with joints that rub against each other, vertebrae that pinch nerves, muscles that haven’t rested despite being disconnected, still with the hangover of the catastrophism of the dreamed gives the troubled and just woken up individual fatigue, pain, stiffness, ruminant pessimism ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- I wake up terribly tired, sore, stiff, too weak to face the day. I can’t rest. Maybe the mattress is not adequate. I use a special pillow for the neck but even so ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- The brain ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- I don’t think when I’m asleep. It’s not ME...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- The brain of transition ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Changes, transitions, are sensitive moments in which the brain projects more perceptive, catastrophist errands of alert. It doesn’t matter if the weather, hormones, the year, working days and holidays, jobs, horizontality and verticality, stillness and motion change. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The moment of the turn on of the body’s engine is complicated, not because there is no energy in the muscles, or the joints have rust from the night, or the vertebrae have tightened and compressed the nerves. It's simply a conflict of interests between the brains that promote action and those that penalize and discourage, the ones that show the result of the debate to the individual, either as an asymptomatic animosity in the transition from night to day or with a served breakfast of pessimism. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have to start working with brain programs from the very first moment of the day. As soon as the brains turn us on, our task begins: projecting rationality and pushing the network that manages us. The first brain of the day is essential. If we don’t know it’s there projecting its fears, we will be drawn by the appearance that those fears are well founded.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The brain that wakes us up prepares the brain that should turn us off at night. It fears that still and plane place in which the bones and joints suffer and muscles don’t rest, and one feels restless.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- I can’t sleep ... and I need to rest ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The daytime and nighttime brains, the ones that turn us on and off, build circular interpretative alliances, fish that eat their own tail and get fatter instead of disappearing...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The start-up brain prefers that we stay in bed, and the one that turns off our lights wants them to stay on and wants us to get up and move </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(restless legs syndrome</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...) </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The brains of unease take turns and make days and nights, waking up and sleeping, horizontality and verticality, stillness and movement miserable. They leave no breathing space, time, place or circumstances ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- It’s a mysterious disease with no solution ... They say it’s the nerves, the years, the past...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first brain of the day would need a good romp of reality, of constraint.</span></div></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-21675516426176733962011-02-18T12:43:00.000-08:002011-02-18T12:55:20.017-08:00Congenital and acquired nervous system<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n3300jCntR4/TVy6oVMv1tI/AAAAAAAAA_g/Vpm51DlxlUw/s400/embri%25C3%25B3n+a+las+22+semanas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n3300jCntR4/TVy6oVMv1tI/AAAAAAAAA_g/Vpm51DlxlUw/s320/embri%25C3%25B3n+a+las+22+semanas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.9550626978743821" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.9550626978743821" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.9550626978743821" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are born with circuits and programs that are already formed in the neural network. Certain stimuli will lead to reflex, predictable, forced responses. A harmless tactile stimulus applied near the lips generates the sucking action in the newborn. The little hand will close around the mother’s finger. An offensive stimulus will produce a strong retreat from the injured area. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The newborn has a congenital, programmed nervous system. The circuits that form it will always be active. They don’t disappear along with growth. They don’t evolve or change. Stimuli and responses are linked perpetually, immutably.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, as the child’s development progresses, he/she stops responding in predictable ways. The same stimuli that used to produce always the same answers generates a different response in each individual. Stimuli that were irrelevant before become significant and what once seemed appetitive or aversive now evokes indifference.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Congenital, reflex responses have a neural architecture with a variable complexity of one or more layers of processing. The centers that integrate stimulus and response may be located in the spinal cord, the brain stem (joint area between spinal cord and brain), the deep brain or the corticothalamic circuit. There’s a hierarchical interaction between every level. It’s about circumstances, the event and its context. In general, the upper layers, the most complex ones, control the reflex, sensitive character of the lower layers’ responses. Control is, basically, inhibitory. Instincts are moderated.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Nervous System contains circuits of closed, congenital architecture and an extensive network of outlined connections, taking care of tuning more precisely, analyzing the meanings of reality from a more complex perspective with more factors to consider and, above all, a distance in time and space. A stimulus or set of stimuli can mean many things. Nothing, something, a few, a lot. It depends on many circumstances. The significance of actions and events contains a lot of uncertainty. We must learn to separate the grain from the straw. To do this, we need to train not only the interpretation of sensory data every time, but especially memorize past and future relevances, the theoretical possibilities of variable probability. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The neural network’s open, alert, plastic architecture learns from the contact with reality. It continuously reorganizes its connectivity. It weaves and unweaves. It sensitizes and numbs. It removes and attributes relevances. It practises. It makes mistakes. It recognizes errors or gets stuck in them.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The brain is not intelligent by design. It’s a system that’s capable of learning, acquiring, evaluating. The “learnings” generate variable results. The course of our lives depends on them. The Acquired (learned) Nervous System can give meaning to our existence or make it an irrational hell.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neuronal learning needs experience to collide with an appetitive and aversive reality, but also learns from observation of events in others and of what it’s said to be known about the occult. We have models and tutors.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Events, models and doctrines mark the course of learning. Depending on how our and others’ things go, depending on the moments and circumstances, depending on availability and attitudes of caregivers and the judgements and opinions from our tutors, the circuits with acquired connectivity will attribute relevance or deny what happened, happens, is going to happen or is believed to happen.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The connectivity of the Acquired Nervous System is culturized, embedded in beliefs, sayings, clichés, expectations, models. The responses are configured based on what the tutored learning process has generated. We are drawn according to predictable, known beliefs, those that the culture we are created in induce.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Congenital Nervous System responds to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">universal nocivity</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: extreme temperatures, mechanical energy over the tissue resistance, lethal metabolic conditions (lack of oxygen, acidity), germs ... and it’s indifferent to any state or agent that doesn’t contain such universal harm. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Acquired Nervous System complements the congenital ability to feel the consummated or imminent damage. It senses danger. It’s always paying attention to an extensive set of signals that providing the display of hidden danger.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Congenital Nervous System is intelligent. It’s always right. It moves us further away from the real harm but doesn’t </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sense</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> danger. It just feels it. The Acquired Nervous System is the one that deals with presentiments. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The symptoms: pain, fatigue, dizziness, itching, hunger, thirst, loneliness, sadness, discouragement, anxiety ... arise, they are sometimes projected to conscience by the impulse of congenital connectivity, by an impact of the universal, by objectively intolerable states and agents that generate adversity or lack. Other times, they arise from the acquired, learnt connectivity, of the imaginative brain that has learned to sense the relevance from the uncertain viewpoint of beliefs and expectations. The symptoms are the same. Pain is pain, loneliness is loneliness, but the significance is different if the pulse comes from congenital connectivity, universal connectivity or acquired connectivity.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wherever congenital sensitivity fails, the acquired pre-sensitivity can be right, and wherever this one senses threat it may have gone better for us with the indifference of congenital circuits. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s accepted that there is a Congenital Immune System and an acquired one. Surprisingly, the Acquired Nervous System is not considered.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some inflammations are activated by the congenital immune system and others by the acquired one. There are default errors from the congenital and excess errors from the acquired.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are pain and other somatic symptomatic perceptions projected to conscience by the impulse of congenital connectivity and there are also pain and other somatic perceptions projected to the same conscience with the same perceptive quality from the acquired, learned connectivity. There are default congenital errors and errors acquired by excess.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We find attenuators for the errors in the decision making of the acquired network in genes, in supposed neurotransmitter deficiencies, in reparative botched jobs of old tissue and heart wounds. The schooling process is not analyzed.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Acquired Nervous System exists. It’s always there, learning and unlearning.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn to sense and feel it. Don’t let your guard down for the detection of errors. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t rely on models or tutors. Demand rigor. Learn. Inject intelligence in the network. It doesn’t just fall from the sky. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strive. </span></div></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-18308634161014845322011-02-16T04:45:00.000-08:002011-02-16T04:45:05.881-08:00Beliefs and Knowledge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nXON-xwOF_U/TVeVtrs2wCI/AAAAAAAAA_U/z38lqcyPRC0/s400/pasteur.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nXON-xwOF_U/TVeVtrs2wCI/AAAAAAAAA_U/z38lqcyPRC0/s320/pasteur.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Louis Pasteur</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Any kind of belief can orbit any issue or, rather, any kind of issue can orbit any belief.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I believe in medicines... for everything, in homeopathy for everything, in needles for everything ... Everything can be referred to the creed embraced by oneself ... at least for a while, the one that continues with the appearance of effectiveness: </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- I only know that (right now) it works for me.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beliefs about the body may be multicolored and evanescent, changing, capricious. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Why don’t you try it?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not everything (for everything) is always believable. Few citizens would accept being treated for bacterial meningitis or insulin-dependent diabetes with something other than antibiotics or insulin. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are tangible diseases to which scientific knowledge has unveiled its dynamics, taken the initiative and overcome with therapy. There is little room left to believe whatever you like. It’s a matter of life or death.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One thing are tangible diseases and, another, suffering without a tangible disease substrate. A person with an objectively healthy body can suffer without limits. More than half the volume of health care is devoted to this area: chronic sufferers without a tangible medical certificate of disease. At most, a label (provisional) of supposed illness, a label that must be validated by the Diagnostic Labels Validation Office.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The lack of tangibility allows all sorts of speculations and proposals, both in Official and Alternative Medicine. In the intangible are the drugs, needles, herbs, homeopathic products, the "handicrafts" (chiropractic) ... disputing the creeds of the sufferers.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before Pasteur demonstrated the tangibility of infectious diseases, those who offered explanations of the intangible would dispute the origins and true remedies. The great clinicals of European Officiality held the theory of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">miasma: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“putrid effluvia from decomposing organic matter". They believed in miasma and ignored themselves as carriers of death in their hands, full of germs.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are molecular explanations for intangibility (genes, neurotransmitters, toxins, food) or pseudo-molecular (molecule memory, faceless traces) and energetic (electromagnetism) or pseudo-energetic (ki, handicrafts, spirituality, mentalization, religiosity). Not in vain, everything is matter and energy (or pseudo-matter and pseudo-energy)... but there isn’t only matter and energy. We forget about history, evolution in time and space, the way matter and energy are intertwined, organized by evolution’s requirement. We forget about information, memory, prediction, probability, errors and their detection, learning ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We know a lot about matter and energy, enough to handle some problems of the body that have their origin and possible remedy in terms of matter and energy. What happens with information?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Neurons are physical, tangible entities, that generate tangible, detectable and quantifiable molecules and electrical signals. However, signals and molecules are at the information’s expense: they express memories and probabilities, certainties, uncertainties, anxieties, desires and fears ... motivations, relevances, things not so tangible and quantifiable. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- It hurts</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- You don’t have anything tangible. Which beliefs do you think can be responsible for this?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This comment is unthinkable at the doctor’s office. Perhaps the formula "what do you blame for it?” would be more fortunate ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- I believe that nerves, changes in the weather, wear, years, cervicals, nutrition, hormones, stress, that accident I had, separation have an influence.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- What treatments have you followed?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- I tried everything. Drugs, needles, homeopathy, herbs, diets ... psychoanalysis ... Nothing worked.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- You are in a Neurology office. We Neurologists are trained to solve issues with medicines... Do you believe in medicines?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- They haven’t worked on me. I don’t like them. They damage the stomach and don’t take away my pain.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sufferers involuntarily confess their pilgrimage around the market of faiths. Belief in therapies go below the minimum, they are on the edge of absolute disbelief, despair or self-sacrificing conformity. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Beliefs are your problem. You must get rid of them and fill the gap with what we know about what’s afflicting you. Forget about the solution. Listen, read, think it over and learn. Let the knowledge module your brain’s decisions. Its matter and energy are sufficient. You may need to review the information that manages them. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Information exists. It’s a fundamental component of matter and energy, trapped in the history of living beings. When a living thing dies it’s because it runs out of information. It’s only matter and energy pending to be part of <strong>another</strong> living space-time, informed.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is information that cheers life up, that projects it to explore the environment. There is information that encourages inaction, catastrophism, disease conviction, claim of an official label of illness.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take care of your information. You need it in order to live. Don’t devote yourself to obtaining pro-disease information. You will live in anguish. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- You have nothing. It’s just information. Your matter and energy are adequate but poorly managed. Believe me ...</span></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-17054067632420997672011-02-15T04:33:00.000-08:002011-02-15T04:33:37.592-08:00Saving the muscle<div id="internal-source-marker_0.08241859703976606" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From the perspective of the pain always coming from wherever it’s felt and and hurting after activity, we are tired without having made an effort, we sleep little and badly and we don’t recover energy nor muscle rest, it’s logical to conclude that widespread pain is a muscle-skeletal thing. The only thing left to do is feel the muscles to expose and objectify the corpus delicti. If we palpate muscles and get 11 painful points, the thing is clear: it’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fibromyalgia.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s the muscles. For the sufferers it’s clear. They don’t measure up. They are sore, bottomless, without energy, sensitive, inflamed. We must get them back with exercise but very gently, without excesses. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did it all begin?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- In an accident, an idiot who hit us from behind on a red light. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- It was a time of a lot of stress ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- The spine. Osteoarthritis ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- It just happened ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Experts seek and describe subtle chemical changes in muscles and nerve endings of nociceptors (vigilant neurons of harm). Something happens there. Wherever it hurts there is clear evidence of abnormality.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is also evidence that the nervous system is hypersensitive. True, but this is due to the bombardment it’s submitted to from the center of muscle pain. It’s essential to identify and silence the nociceptive signal hideouts, hidden places from which the pain leaks and fills the neural network and keeps it at bay. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Massages, relaxations, gentle and progressive exercise, punctures on myofascial points, botulinum toxin, detachments, surgery ... Anything that puts out the muscle’s continuous fire will be beneficial.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Struggling with stress is necessary. No stress. Muscle contracture. No pain. Pain stresses. It’s prohibited.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Refreshing sleep is also needed. Insomnia is also prohibited.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The muscle must be treated with care. Non-toxic feeding. Healthy diet. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Positive attitude. Selflessness. Fortitude. Illness awareness. Hope. Optimism. Even pride if needed. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drugs. Needles. Homeopathy. They don’t cure, but they relieve.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">High spirits, even if the sky is falling. Don’t get depressed. Take antidepressants if needed. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s all about the muscle! It needs support, breath, be pampered.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Muscle fibers are hyperexcitable cells in their own right. If the environment is not adequate, they contracture creating vicious circles. If the task is not adequate, they suffer overload, abuse. There are "Cinderella" muscles. They’re the ones who deal with everything. The tasks of modernity aren’t the most appropriate. The computer... We don’t know why the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sapiens</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">’ (ma non troppo) cervicals</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">are “pro-no”-ly selected for this damn modern life. What to say of the lumbar vertebrae! Why can’t we be quadrupeds! Bipedalism has given us an excessive bill. Free hands with an opponent thumb, yeah, that’s fine... but what about the back pain...?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is an urge to protect the muscle since childhood. There are children with fibromyalgia. Muscularly healthy life. We already have the cardio-healthy proposals. The heart is also a muscle. Let’s do the same with the rest. Stretching. One hour before each game and one hour after. The kids need to acquire good habits.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s no doubt. The muscles are at their peak. We need them to be strong, energetic, relaxed...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Brain, you say?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The brain decade has already passed. We are left with a lot of new and expensive drugs, social alarm for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, promises ... and more suffering. More pain, more despair, more tiredness, more insomnia.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Neurons? Are they cells?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the embryo neurons first appear, they contact the muscle fibers and nothing will ever be the same for them. They will receive orders. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The muscle is a servant. Yes, the brain is the boss.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fibromyalgia, a matter of muscle? A matter of brain?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Suit yourself...</span></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-17518053771095759212011-02-14T07:20:00.000-08:002011-02-14T07:20:19.119-08:00Muscle and brain<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uyWcjFnatwI/TVjHtbjinmI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/tlBlO_moL5o/s400/violoncello.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uyWcjFnatwI/TVjHtbjinmI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/tlBlO_moL5o/s320/violoncello.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.10929928184486926" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.10929928184486926" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jacqueline Du Pré</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Muscle pain, muscle-skeletal pain, contractures, myofascial points, overloads, strains ... are used and abused terms of which we know little about.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Muscle takes the blame for chronic pain. Causing pain with deep palpation is enough to conclude that we have found the key: pain comes from this muscle.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain never comes from a muscle or any other tissue. Information, signals that should be interpreted come out of the muscle. These signals can be those of suffering (there is destruction of fibers or insufficient energy supply), exhaustion (mechanical stress over the possibilities) or awareness (surveillance). There may also be a bit of everything. The signals arrive at distributed central networks that process various aspects of ongoing or planned actions and there arises the perception of pain and other motor programs that say which muscles have to contract and which ones need to relax.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- You have a contracture.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Researchers don’t agree on the meaning of a contracted muscle. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For some it’s a muscle problem. The muscle does nothing but cause trouble in a vicious circle. The contracture is the result of previous poor metabolic conditions due to overload, and contracture worsens these conditions. The contracted muscle is responsible for this. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For others, the responsible muscle is quiet, inactive and the contracted one is the opposite, the antagonist. Contracture and pain are adaptive, protective responses. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes the origin is elsewhere. The apparently responsible muscle doesn’t have anything to do with this matter.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes the muscle is stiff, but not contracted.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Physical therapists palpate the tissues to draw conclusions. Contractures, trigger points, painful movements ... also observe those movements to detect patterns. They palpate, speak ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes it all started with an incidence of tissue damage, an accident, a "pull", a tear, an "overload". Other times there is no previous event. Maybe something emotional ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When something non-muscular happens inside, the muscles execute the motor programs adapted to their defensive mission. When that something is muscular in origin, programs try to protect its integrity while it’s being repaired. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes there is no muscular damage or overload, only an alarmist forecast of possible damage. Muscles obey and contract following the cerebral script of nociceptive alert, of catastrophism. The alert may ooze an extra of acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction, an extra of CGRP and substance P in muscle nociceptors, perhaps also bradykinin, prostaglandins. This can increase the nociceptive signal. The alert makes signals go to the posterior horn, thalamus cortex ... another damn vicious circle.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's a matter of eggs or chickens, but the hen-house has long been working and it probably won’t make sense to ask the question. There will always be eggs and chickens.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My cello teacher comes to my mind. She was an excellent physical therapist even though she wasn’t aware of it. She kept playing, palpating, talking. Other times she would take the cello and play. I would look closely </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(mirror neurons).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Let go. More. Feel the inert weight of the arm. Use the whole body. Effortlessly ... you’re not relaxed ... Now! ... Think you're smearing a slice of bread with butter ... Look at my shoulder ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From all this arose a better sound, even music from time to time ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We know little about pain and muscle. We have hypotheses. We don’t know if they are correct. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We know that pain is a cerebral decision. Everything we perceive is a cerebral decision.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We know there are myofascial points that can be unnecessarily encouraging vicious circles. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Muscle or brain? It doesn’t make sense. Neurons exist because there is movement and vice versa. Nociception, perception, cognition, emotion, action. They are different sides of a single process: decision-making.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The brain expresses its decisions through pain and motor planning. Muscles may be in distress. Underpaid job under poor conditions. There may also be an alarmist brain, a bad manager of good muscle resources.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The physical therapists also make decisions. Muscle? Brain?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I remember my cello teacher... </span></div></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-57657948522740424282011-02-09T04:38:00.000-08:002011-02-09T04:38:30.111-08:00So then, why does it hurt?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TU-MFuSkUOI/AAAAAAAAA_E/dSumeMVhFiY/s400/interrogante.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TU-MFuSkUOI/AAAAAAAAA_E/dSumeMVhFiY/s400/interrogante.jpg" /></a></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.5208074247855268" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.5208074247855268" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When a patient describes his or her symptoms, it’s the professional’s mission to find their origin and, if possible, the remedy.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nowadays we have powerful means to inspect the inside and see if everything is in order. Analysis, imaging and functional tests can certify the sufficient health condition.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- It's all reasonably well. There is no reason for it to hurt.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Well, it hurts. It hurts a lot.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This situation is common. More than one can imagine. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The normality of modern complementary tests shouldn’t leave any doubts.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- You are healthy. I can certify it.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- So then, why does it hurt?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a logical and timely question, but the professional fears it because he knows that he has no convincing answers.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There can be several explanations:</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) There can’t be pain if everything is correct. The patient makes up the pain ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) The pain is psychological. Stress, discouragement ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) It’s a psychosomatic problem. Emotional and psychological traumas that are not expressed the natural way emerge to consciousness turned into physical symptoms.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4) It’s a mysterious disease.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5) The years, the wear, overloading, contractures, deformities ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6) Food, energy, pollution ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7) It is a systemic, holistic... </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">psychoneuroimmuneendochrinostheomioarthrosociopathic problem.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The patient accepts more or less convinced some of the proposals. You can accept the responsibility of the accumulated mechanical and psychological burdens, contractures, wear, the presence of a mysterious emerging disease, systemic and environmental disturbances,...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes the dilemma is solved with labels: </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- You have migraine... fibromyalgia ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- What's that?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- We don’t know. They are mysterious illnesses. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The label seems to provide some light, but it doesn’t. It’s a cover. It’s received with relief, but closes the circle of questions. The label is a question disguised as a response.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the world of medically unexplained symptoms there aren’t any neurons. Apparently, the body self-governs itself or the individual does it by the use of drugs, diets, natural remedies, needles, exercise ... or there are spirits/vital energies that are unbalanced and must be reorganized with all kinds of therapies. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All but neurons ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- If it hurts it’s because your brain assesses threat. If, according to the tests, there is no reason for it to do so, the reason for you to have pain is simple: your brain manages the body’s security in an alarmist way.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- I don’t understand. What you’re saying is very strange. I’ve never heard of it.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We have this last proposal:</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8) The brain sees danger where there isn’t.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">evaluative cerebral dysfunction</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is not considered as a possible explanation, not even as a companion factor. In its place are the explanations of "nerves", depression, stress or the malicious individual. There are only spirits and flesh. Physical and psychological things.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Neurons, you say? What are you suggesting, that I have Alzheimer's disease?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Patients with chronic pain in the absence of damage stop suffering pain as Alzheimer's disease progresses. They don’t have a brain to imagine anymore, to anticipate damage. Without an imaginative brain there is no pain (in the absence of damage). There’s is only a brain to cause pain left when something destroys tissues at the time and place. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The brain is not infallible. It may cause pain in the absence of significant damage and may not generate it in its presence.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- You’re having a heart attack.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- So then, why doesn’t it hurt?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's funny. Given this cerebral error, no psychological, hormonal, emotional, dietary, holistic theories are built... The nerves, the cables are blamed, "they probably don’t work well". </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- They broke into his home and the alarm didn’t go off. That means it’s not working. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The error is not considered as an explanation: </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- The system has failed to value the robbery. It’s wrong.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The brain can make mistakes. Don’t be mistaken.</span></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-66374718898651745072011-02-02T10:26:00.001-08:002011-02-02T10:26:46.083-08:00Women and pain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TUekl3xe6UI/AAAAAAAAA-0/E1b-jN68hzM/s400/dolor-mujer-tristeza.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TUekl3xe6UI/AAAAAAAAA-0/E1b-jN68hzM/s400/dolor-mujer-tristeza.jpg" /></a></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.10757562611086025" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</span></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.10757562611086025" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Being a woman carries a higher risk of feeling pain, especially if pain is not associated with significant tissue damage. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In recent years, studies on differences in pain regarding gender have multiplied. This is a thorough review:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677686/pdf/nihms98634.pdf"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677686/pdf/nihms98634.pdf.</span></a></div><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677686/pdf/nihms98634.pdf"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is there more pain among women?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Any proposals?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first problem arises when we consider the origin of pain. Does the well or wrongly called "muscle-skeletal pain" come from muscles and the skeleton or from a vigilant-catastrophist brain advised by professionals who attribute too much responsibility to wear, bulges, pinches, contractures ...?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is the female body more vulnerable, less resistant to mechanical stress?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Does the female body have more mechanical and psychoactive stress by the roles assigned by culture?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is the feminine way of evaluating the source of pain more catastrophist?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Does the woman confront the problem by asking for more analgesic help? </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the role of hormones?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How is feminine pain judged by professionals in comparison to masculine pain?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The questions could be multiplied to infinity through all the possible combinations of factors. The truth is that we have a serious problem of high incidence of local and widespread pain in women with the aggravation of the frequent company of a low mood and exhaustion. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The drama of fibromyalgia raises many questions about pain and gender. There are many works that seek (and find) the biological differences, influences of hormonal factors, different ways of brain processing. Biology exists. No doubt. But there is a lack of cultural considerations, the impact of learning by imitation-copy-empathy and expert information. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The organism is thoroughly analysed, its genes and hormones, its biography, its psychophysical stress. It’s the individual who catches a mysterious illness. The possibility of the organism being reasonably healthy but being managed by a brain that is wrong, although it may only be a hypothetical alternative of work and reflection, is not considered. If the pedagogy of pain can be reasonably improved, the female vulnerability may come, at least in part, from her biological and cultural condition for greater attention to avoid harm and to be guardians. The woman requests more diagnostical and therapeutical care, and therefore is more vulnerable to social expectations and beliefs, professionals, about injury and pain. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fibromyalgia is the result of a sensitized brain. How does anyone get to sensitization? By the repetitive bombardment of signals of physical damage to an emotionally sensitive and depressive brain and in addition, or preferably, by indoctrination?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do we need to update and spread information on neurobiology of pain? Are patients interested in such pedagogy or are they suspicious of it?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The female brain projects more pain on their heads, "muscles", "bones", "joints", "discs", abdomen, mouth. Real body? Virtual body?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Being a woman, hurts. That's the reality.</span></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-35670228660576943102011-02-02T09:50:00.000-08:002011-02-02T09:51:25.579-08:00Illness behaviour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/Sgjxw6SIJHI/AAAAAAAAALI/9YoPSqWcODM/s400/raton+enfermo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="271" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/Sgjxw6SIJHI/AAAAAAAAALI/9YoPSqWcODM/s320/raton+enfermo.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.9084539468589514" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagine that you have caught the flu. Obviously, you feel sick. That means you want to stay in bed, you don’t want to eat or talk to relatives and friends and see everything a little darker than before falling ill. Youl also notice that you have a fever. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You will think that the symptoms are due to the flu virus causing you physical weakness and that feeling sick is only the expression of that weakness.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s a seemingly correct conclusion but, actually, what happens is something else. The whole picture of discomfort created by the infection can be reproduced by administering a molecule, the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lipopolysaccharide, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">found in the capsule of a bacterium, that is, without causing any infection. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The symptoms of illness that forced you to behave as sick are generated by the turn on of a cerebral program known as cerebral </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">disease </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">response. In the presence of an infection, the affected (necrosated) tissues release, through immune system cells, messenger molecules (cytokines) to the brain and activate the program. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The same program can be activated in a healthy mouse if we apply these messengers (cytokines) of its sick partner to its brain. If a false message of illness arrives to the brain, it activates the corresponding program automatically. No matter how healthy the mouse is, it will feel sick and behave as such.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagine a society of mice with doctor mice that evaluate the symptoms and make analysis and X-rays. The healthy mouse with the unnecessarily activated program would tell its symptoms: "I'm tired, everything hurts, I’m not hungry, I want to stay at home, my mind feels so dense ...". All the analysis results would be normal and the doctor mouse would conclude: "everything is normal, I can’t find anything that’s wrong...", to which the healthy mouse with the active disease program would answer: “well, I feel awful, I must have something...". "I don’t I make up the symptoms."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The program of being sick is also activated in the baby mice if their mother abandons them and, as you may have noticed already, its expression corresponds to what someone feels when he or she is depressed or has </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fibromyalgia. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The brain contains multiple programs to produce the full range of comfort and discomfort perceptions.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If, for example, the brain turns the hunger program on, you feel like if you haven’t eaten in several days, but it hasn’t been more than two hours since you ate the snack and you are a bit overweight. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the brain decides to activate disease programs is in order to make us act as if we were sick, even though we aren’t. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why does it act like this? What is the point of feeling sick if we are not?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The brain is a hypotheses builder. It anticipates the events hastily. If fear of disease reaches the alert level, it’s not required to produce the disease so we feel ill. The fact that the program was activated is enough.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Disease symptoms are not caused by weakness, but by "illness behavior”, the program that encourages us, through the symptoms, to behave as sick. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The brain is not infallible. It overestimates danger and that can cause us many problems. One of them is feeling sick when we are healthy. </span><br />
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</div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-47198190533595833362011-01-30T16:28:00.000-08:002011-01-30T16:28:52.786-08:00Hidden science and occult science<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TTaAL6yeTxI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/Ha8WILIeGpw/s400/Prohibido+el+paso.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TTaAL6yeTxI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/Ha8WILIeGpw/s400/Prohibido+el+paso.gif" /></a></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.07065868494100869" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</span></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.07065868494100869" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concepts presented in this blog cover the basic issues of neuronal activity, well-established concepts in biology. This is not about philosophical speculations, but cellular routines in the organism’s day to day. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invariably, the reaction to the above is a surprise:</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- It's the first time I've heard this...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- I'm not convinced ... </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain is a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">perception</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Citizens and professionals are not too interested in knowing how the body builds what we perceive. We perceive it, period. If I perceive pain, then I’ll take a pain "antiperceiver". If it’s effective, there are no more questions.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain is a perception that the brain builds and projects onto a region of space occupied by the body...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Leave the brains aside. What’s bothering me is my back...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professionals and citizens devote their energies to identify the source of pain where it hurts and apply remedies there. Low back pain, please!, is a matter of muscle and skeleton... stop the nonsense!</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain is a perception that the brain builds and projects onto a region of space occupied by the body that involves an </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">assessment of threat</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- I DON’T think ... It hurts, period!</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The reference to the brain is understood as a reference to the individual. Professionals and citizens share that identification error (the myth of me, myself and I).</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain is a perception that the brain builds and projects onto a region of space occupied by the body that involves an assessment of threat </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(which is sometimes wrong)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- You’re the one that’s wrong.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Citizens and professionals don’t give importance to the fallible condition of our brain. The immune system’s fallibility condition is recognized (allergies, autoimmune diseases), but not the neural network’s.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain is a perception that the brain builds and projects onto a region of space occupied by the body that involves an assessment of threat (which is sometimes wrong) of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">necrotic damage</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- What is that?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Citizens and professionals equate pain and damage. Any damage, either acute or chronic, degenerative or necrotic, actual or potential ... any inconvenience (“it turned out to be a cloudy day”...) is sufficient to justify the pain ... Necrosis? You won’t find that term on publications. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain is a perception that the brain builds and projects onto a region of space occupied by the body that involves an assessment of threat (which is sometimes wrong) of necrotic damage and that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">incites the individual</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Pain exists only to annoy me... get it out of me!</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Citizens and professionals disregard the role of pain from the perspective of the organism. It’s annoying, it leads to suffering. It has no purpose. The pain is a disease. We must fight it, dissolve it, kill it, cancel its receptors, its paths, its centers ... The problem is that there are no receptors, paths and pain centers.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain is a perception that the brain builds and projects onto a region of space occupied by the body that involves an assessment of threat (which is sometimes wrong) of necrotic damage and that incites the individual to an </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">avoidance behavior</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- I avoid whatever causes me pain and do whatever relieves it.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The aim of perception is to encourage the individual to a previously scheduled action which is considered necessary by the organism. The aim of the itch perception is to encourage the individual to scratch even when there isn’t any parasite or toxic on the skin. The brain doesn’t want to avoid pain, but the risk of harm. If it is instructed to equate pain and threat of injury, any action it considers as protective will tend to soften the intensity of pain (placebo).</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain is a perception ................ and incites the individual to avoid </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">harm.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through pain, the brain tries to force the individual to focus on the painful area, a place rated as vulnerable even when it’s not the case.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The biology of pain is a hidden, silenced science. It doesn’t matter, it disturbs, attacks the interests of citizens and professionals.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Its place is squatted by occult sciences, supported from the “anything goes” (magical molecules, energy meridians, memories of molecules, diet, meditation, massage, bone and tendon relocations ...).</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Brain? No, thanks ... I’m more into science. </span></div></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-85008321081343329432011-01-29T08:56:00.000-08:002011-01-29T08:56:44.283-08:00Evaluative disfunction as a risk factor<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TT-688oqjvI/AAAAAAAAA-g/hmveKSnbNuo/s400/candado.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TT-688oqjvI/AAAAAAAAA-g/hmveKSnbNuo/s320/candado.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.4515635578427464" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.4515635578427464" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A reasonably healthy body managed by a mistaken, alarmist brain that maintains defensive programs needlessly is an abused body, subjected to physical burdens that undermine its integrity. Defense programs are justified when there is a noxious state or agent. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The program of preventive removal of the ingested (ie nausea to cause vomit) is biologically justified when we have eaten something dangerous, or when an animal stuffs itself with food and then regurgitates it to feed the brood or to hide food in a safe place. Activating vomit during a migraine attack or vertigo only produces discomfort, suffering and loss of energy (food). The body tends to activate preventively the nausea when it assesses internal problems. Germs and toxic substances go in through the digestive tract. If something goes wrong internally, the noxious agent might still be in the stomach, so the stomach-pumping program is turned on. Facial pain, toothache or muscle-skeletal system pain are not accompanied by nausea. The theoretically noxious is still at the entrance (mouth) or is a matter of mechanical stress (muscle-skeletal system). Biologically, vomiting does not make sense.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keeping the hunger program on and eagerly promoting it despite overweight generates all kinds of physical inconvenience. Hunger is for when there isn’t any food available but can be found if one tries hard enough. It makes no sense if you have any extra kilos or if there is no chance of finding a tiny bite.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Managing the organism healthily involves being right in the decision to turn on and off and maintain programs, obtaining profit from it.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The erroneous assessment of relevant structural damage in the spine ("I have arthritis, pinches, hernias...") involves the turning on of defensive programs that cancel the articular function, contracture of inadequate muscles and increase of mechanical stress with each action. A spine with "wear" needs free joints, little mechanical load, freedom and promotion of movement, trust ... not fear of movement.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The erroneous assessment of disease activates the "sickness response" that promotes the behavior of feeling "coming down with the flu” (sore, tired, unmotivated) not being sick. In the case of fibromyalgia, the brain maintains discouragement active (fatigue) and punishment (pain) of movement "as if" there was disease. Actually, the disease is generated by an erroneous evaluation of disease, the stubbornness in defending the idea that fibromyalgia is a disease (in the classical way) when the pathogenic state is the mismanagement of a healthy brain "as if" the individual was sick.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The stress program does its job: alerting the individual from an uncoded new incidence, measuring it, evaluating it, giving it relevance, selecting the coping resources and proceeding to activate the most appropriate behavior. After the event, shutting down the program. Stressing out is not working too hard, but doing it with a continuous assessment of shock, threat, catastrophism, subjection to an unknown hierarchy... being helpless... </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The program of feeling depressed makes sense when the reality at that moment is averse and doesn’t offer a solution until either circumstances have changed or a recent negative event has been sufficiently ruminated and digested. Continuous assessment of helplessness, low self-esteem or other’s, in the objective absence of weakness or adversity of the surroundings, cancels the motivational resources and condemns the individual to inaction.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The catastrophist assessment makes sense when there has been a negative factor and must be analyzed to learn how to avoid it or deal with it properly in the future. Once the analysis is done, the reflective period is turned off and the individual gets his or her act together to work towards his or her goals.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Your brain doesn’t manage the programs properly. It evaluates the organism’s state wrongly. It sees danger, failure, vulnerability, illness, frailty. That’s why you have symptoms... that is, programs ... They are on and should be off.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- I disagree. I'm sick.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- If you think so, you’re feeding your brain’s erroneous evaluations, which is bad.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- I was told that my brain has lost volume in the cortex. That doesn’t seem normal to me.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- The connections between neurons are cheered up with action and turned off with discouragement. Your brain’s cortex has thinned because it has no stimuli. They are discouraged. Pleasure is requisitioned.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Confusing the appearance of disease with actual disease is not harmless. Not considering the brain’s evaluative error as a pathology that must be fought with the restoration of the health belief is a mistake. Defending and claiming the disease condition of a healthy organism is not harmless.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"... migraine, fibromyalgia ... are mysterious illnesses without treatment ..."</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When will there be a serious, rigorous consideration of that omnipresent and overflowing category of diseases of cultural mediation?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It doesn’t look good...</span></div></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-31723046446148921662011-01-28T17:27:00.000-08:002011-01-28T17:27:07.833-08:00Pain and inaction<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TUEmaUqayFI/AAAAAAAAA-s/5RQeFUESyQ8/s400/perro+policia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TUEmaUqayFI/AAAAAAAAA-s/5RQeFUESyQ8/s400/perro+policia.jpg" /></a></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.24087775638327003" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.24087775638327003" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The function of perception is to focus, care for a theoretical or real content and propose an interaction. Perception is a proposition with a variable load of motivation to act in a certain way, with a purpose and significance (positive or negative).</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain is a perception whose purpose is to force the individual to act defensively. If we contact with a noxious foreign agent or status, pain will force us to avoid it, to flee-fight. If the noxious agent or state is internal, pain pushes us to inaction, to suspend the planned activities.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Standing, walking, bending ... are actions that the individual requests to obtain purposes. The brain knows the intention, the desire of the individual and selects its proposal. If the individual's application doesn’t show any threat (real or theoretical) to physical integrity, the brain activates silent motor programs perceptively. We get up, we bend, we take things ... with nothing relevant in the execution. The individual’s request has received the brain’s approval. The action has been painless because the brain’s evaluative action has approved it without hesitation.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If there is a vulnerability assessment (theoretical or real) in an area of an individual's request for a given action-purpose, it can generate a cerebral fear of damage. The brain doesn’t approve it and perceptively projects fear (fear of injury) and pain (deterrent penalty) while it selects a defensive motor program with inadequate muscles. The individual perceives both cerebral projections: fear and pain, and proves that the action is inadequate, slow, painful, stiff ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain has fulfilled its deterrent function. It has forced inaction. If despite the pain the individual decides to continue with its purpose, the pain will increase until it achieves its goal: to compel surrender. It stops acting in the individual’s desired direction and contributes to the inactivity of an area that is considered vulnerable.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cerebral action of selecting and projecting pain perception in an area also contains a forecast of which actions of the individual are required to turn off the pain. If the brain requires a drug, there will be no relief until the individual performs the action to take it. If the brain requires relaxation, the individual must do it in order to make the pain go away.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking an analgesic is an action, something more than introducing a single molecule in the body. The brain calls for actions. Food doesn’t take away the hunger with molecules. Eating is an action that the brain requires by the projection of hunger perception. If you obey, the brain turns off the appetite.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We mustn’t always accept the brain’s proposals. We must learn to value them as rational and sensible or otherwise and act accordingly.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the brain asks for inaction by an alarmist assessment, we must defend with arguments our willingness to act and get the brain to mute the perception of fear of harm (pain) and to organize the motor gesture with economic and quiet programs.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Don’t move, don’t do it!</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Come on!</span></div></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123205266789761099.post-71816456098555157382011-01-28T16:43:00.000-08:002011-01-28T16:43:42.297-08:00Hunger<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TUJV4u2IQqI/AAAAAAAAA-w/ZUWIrElufHc/s400/tabaquismo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uc7mjKjM578/TUJV4u2IQqI/AAAAAAAAA-w/ZUWIrElufHc/s320/tabaquismo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.8767086020670831" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div id="internal-source-marker_0.8767086020670831" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hunger is a perception of necessity, of encouragement to get something the organism is requesting, with or without justification.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We associate hunger with food but there is also hunger for air, hunger for salt, hunger for sweets. Actually, thirst is hunger for water.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through hunger, the brain pressures the individual to look for whatever is requested. The objects of hunger, in natural conditions, are scarce or highly demanded and fought over by other species or individuals. There are neural circuits that promote hunger, exploration and supply. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The natural, biological, evolutionary tendency is to activate hunger when food, water, salt, sweet... are handy. The brain has evolved in an environment of disputed scarcity or abundance, and promotes the consumption when the object is within reach. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homo sapiens</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (ma non troppo) has hated hunger and has managed to grow food, water channeling, collecting salt, sweetening with no limits ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abundance with no rivals and no risk should produce appeasement of the circuits of hunger, but it doesn’t. Hunger is unleashed.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hunger causes discomfort, restlessness, dissatisfaction, need, desire. If we obey the cerebral order of hunger, the system rewards us with the withdrawal of urgency. It takes away the hunger for food, for water, for salt or for fresh air. We interpret the relief as pleasurable, but really the pleasure consists on the suppression of urgency. It's like taking a small shoe off.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hunger expresses the brain’s desire. The individual can give in and enjoy getting rid of the pressure (eating, drinking ...) or rebel and refuse to meet the requirements because of lack of need in the present and confidence in the future.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain has the essence of hunger. It's an extreme hunger. The reward system forces the individual to behave defensively. Pain expresses hunger for fear of injury, the need to stay still or run away, to move your legs when you want to keep them still ("restless legs syndrome") or to keep them still when you want to move. The brain requires nociceptive calmness. To achieve it, the brain activates the hunger for remedies, various spells: sedatives, massages, punctures, homeopathic products...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hunger for air makes sense when we need as much oxygen as possible to escape danger or play sports, but the brain can see danger always and everywhere and activate the hunger for air at all times. The individual feels the uneasiness of hunger and needs to breathe deeply. If you disobey the hunger for air, it increases until a sigh momentarily relieves anxiety.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dizziness is hunger for sitting still. Loneliness, hunger for relationships...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is not easy to manage hunger, the pressure of the reward system. We succumb easily when it tightens the nuts. Snacks, soft drinks, sweets, salt, rest, painkillers, twitches, sighs...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hunger must be obeyed when justified by real, current necessity states, and must be faced when there is no reason for it, just for fear of uncertainty.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to sooth hunger, own or others’ motor behaviors are required: eating, drinking, moving, being still, sighing ...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is also hunger for smoking and the ritual requires a complex engine (taking out the cigarette, lighting it, putting it in the mouth, sucking and expelling the smoke, flicking the ash, putting it out ...)</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- You haven’t smoked for some time. Why don’t you light another cigarette?</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- No thanks, don’t turn on my hunger. I will ignore what you said. Smoking is toxic, addictive, misleading ... and increases hunger for smoking.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">................</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- You haven’t taken painkillers for some time...</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain, at the bottom, consists on that: just one of the many hungers the brain gives us to calm down its probabilistic burdens, its fears, not always well based.</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Don’t insist on making me feel hungry... Leave me alone!</span></div></div>Arturo Goicoecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09393248666199275670noreply@blogger.com0