PERIPHERAL SENSITISATION: I hear you say, periphi-whaaaaa? Peripheral sensitisation is an increase in responsiveness to sensation and a reduced pain threshold. .
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An example of this is standing in a warm shower with sunburn. Here, the water is no hotter, but the receptors that respond to heat have dropped their threshold to 30 degress. Here, your body is saying, ‘You're burned, we don’t want more heat’ - so it fires more signals, and you feel more pain and heat sensitivity. .
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Chronic pain is like you're talking to a toddler. If your two-year-old walks to the oven, we use our positive parenting voice and softly say, 'Don’t touch that, it’s hot.' When your toddler leaves and comes back to the oven, you say again, 'Don’t touch that, it’s hot.' The third time that that child comes up to touch the hot plate, this time you shout, ‘DON'T TOUCH IT!’ .
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With chronic pain, your nervous system says, ‘You are not f***** listening!’ and sends a big pain signal to try and get you to listen. This is where we come in and can help to modulate the pain. Anyone else relate?!
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