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AMPLIFIED PAIN

Treating Chronic Pain & SensitisationYou’re about to learn the process of Amplified Pain,

and how this causes chronic pain to carry on - long

after your patient ‘should’ have healed.

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Amplified PainThis picture shows a pain message being picked up (1) and

going along the peripheral nervous system.

When it gets to the spinal cord - the central nervous system

- there is a nerve synapse (2).

This synapse is in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord (3).

At this point, one of three things will happen. The pain

message will stay the same, it will be turned down, or it will

be amplified.

Hidden Cause of Chronic Pain

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Nerve SynapseSo the normal, un-amplifed message (1) goes down the nerve

to the synapse. (2)

This is where the peripheral nerve ends and the spinal cord

begins. The message has be transferred via

neuro-transmitters from one nerve to the other.

Depending on which receptor receives the message (3) it will

either stay the same, or be amplified.

The AMPA will transfer the message faithfully and keep it the

same. However, the NMDA or NK1 receptors will amplify, and

sometimes distort the message (4).

This new amplified message travels up to the brain, where

you perceive it as pain.

This is how an area can be painful years after the damage

occurred - even after it’s healed.

How Amplified Pain Happens

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How Pain SpreadsThe pain message in this case starts at the thumb (1). It travels up to the

spinal cord, and this is where it can get amplified.

Something else can happen here though - the pain message can be

spread to other segments - up and down the spinal cord. So you feel the

same pain in a larger area.

This is done by interneurons (2) in the spinal cord. They take the original

pain message and pass it up and down the spinal cord.

As it goes to a new layer, you feel pain in a new part of your arm - the part

supplied by that particular nerve (3).

This is how pain can spread - even to areas of your body that are not

damaged.

Expansion of the Pain Field