Four Principles of Pain - by Max Shen - Debug Your Pain

Minimum viable knowledge for working with pain.

Four Principles of Pain Minimum viable knowledge for working with pain. Max Shen Oct 17, 2024 7 1 1 Share I. Pain is not a measure of damage Most of us naively equate pain with tissue damage. The most common view is that pain is the body’s perception of damage. Tissue damage → Pain receptors fire → Experience of pain or Tissue damage ⟹ Pain This is why if you go into a doctor’s office reporting back pain, they will often image your spine for abnormalities (e.g. herniated disk or spinal stenosis) 1 . They can then attempt try to fix these abnormalities via surgery or, failing that, give you pai

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