Valentin Taghon Ostéopathe

02/09/2022

11/04/2022

30/03/2022

What if I told you... 🙂⠀
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Chronic (back) pain is not about mechanical problems, like a vertebra out of alignment, slipped disc etc.⠀
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Pain is a complex, multi-factoral experience.⠀
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Chronic back pain can be influenced by the following:⠀
-Psychological factors (depression, anxiety, stress, fear avoidance, illness beliefs)⠀
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-Lifestyle factors (sedentary lifestyle, poor general health, poor sleeping patterns)⠀
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-Social factors (job dissatisfaction and unwholesome work relationships, hypervigilance and over-concern from family)⠀
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And that can create central sensitization (a bit controversial term), which is in fact a hypersensitive nervous system.⠀
Here a better explanation:⠀
"According to Woolf (2011), CS is ‘operationally defined as an amplification of neural signaling within the central nervous⠀
system (CNS) that elicits pain hypersensitivity’.⠀
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CS is a broad concept reflecting not only spinal cord sensitization⠀
but also enhanced activity of pain descending facilitation pathways (Meeus and Nijs, 2007; Staud et al., 2007), loss of descending antinociceptive mechanisms (Meeus et al., 2008), overactivity in the pain neuromatrix (Seifert and Maihöfner, 2009) and long-term potentiation of neuronal synapsis in the⠀
anterior cingulate cortex (Zhuo, 2007).⠀
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Wind-up, activation of collateral synapses, apoptosis of gABAergic⠀
inhibitory interneurons, sprouting of Aβ-fibres in lamina II or glial activation are also important functional changes observed in the CNS with CS (Woolf, 2011)."⠀
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Quote from:⠀
Lluch et al. (2014) Evidence for central sensitization in patients with osteoarthritis pain: A systematic literature review⠀
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What do you think of this?⠀
Let us know in the comments! 🙂
Btw if you want to learn more about central sensitization, make sure to watch the new pain science course on Trustme-Ed by Niamh Moloney and Martin Rabey. Good stuff in there. 🙂👍
https://www.trustme-ed.com/lectures/pain-translating-neuroscience-into-clinical-practice

12/06/2021

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10/04/2021

Les experts recommandent l'exercice physique et la psychothérapie plutôt que les analgésiques pour soulager les douleurs chroniques primaires.

20/03/2021

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