[Audio] What is Pain?
[Transcript]
I’m Dr. Steve Griffith. I’m a doctor in Redcliffe, Queensland. My undergraduate training is both in part medicine and part chiropractic, science, anatomy. I’ve taught many subjects, and the subject today is about pain. Where does it come from? Where does it go, and how does it get there? Well, first of all, you got to understand the first thing about pain is it’s all about internal bleeding. It’s pressure on tissue, hard bones on soft nerves, nerves getting pinched, or blockages between pain the brain and a part of the body. So, the pain doesn’t necessarily have to be coming from the area you feel it. It’s where the brain registers it feels it. So, if you’ve got pressure in the spinal cord, it can tell you you got a sore leg. If you got pressure at the base of the neck, it could tell you you got a headache.
So, the source comes from a physical state, a chemical state, and an emotional state. So, in the physical state, you can have pressure on the nerve, you can have blood on the nerve, you can have contamination. You can have a [splinter 00:00:54]. We’ve all had that one. When it comes down to emotional, if the body has sustained emotional stress for a period of time, the brain doesn’t register the difference between that emotional stress and physical. So, if I yell at you all day, you might as well get kicked because you’re going to get a headache out of it anyway.
Then, there’s chemical. Well, today, most of the chemicals are made of something called an acid, and acid attacks nerves in the human body. So, you can burn the nerve endings, and they really don’t like that. So, from eating all that crappy food or even good food that’s got crappy stuff in it, it’s going to hurt … particularly when you add some trauma to it and we don’t do something about it. So, the human body hates getting injured, and [inaudible 00:01:34] after your original injury. Thanks for having this little talk, and [inaudible 00:01:39] next time. Catch you later. Bye.
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