Pain System Escalation

  1. Increasing Pain signals:
    1. Trauma Injury-Muscle bracing protect joint
    2. Grinding/clenching
    3. Anxiety wires to pain system
    4. Normal Jaw Joint function
    5. Decrease in pain inhibitory system
    6. Change in pain neurotransmitters
    7. Other Biochemical & physiological changes
  2. Pain system changes:
    1. length each pain,
    2. intensity pain,
    3. pain from nonpainful stimulus,
    4. wider area pain,
    5. perception pain
  3. Poor health habits decrease chance of healing; thus, a likely perpetuation of pain
  4. Pain itself causes increase in muscle contraction in certain muscle groups (back, neck, head, jaw)
  1. Increasing Pain signals:
    1. Trauma Injury-Muscle bracing protect joint
    2. Grinding/clenching
    3. Anxiety wires to pain system
    4. Normal Jaw Joint function
    5. Decrease in pain inhibitory system
    6. Change in pain neurotransmitters
    7. Other Biochemical & physiological changes
  2. Pain system changes:
    1. length each pain,
    2. intensity pain,
    3. pain from nonpainful stimulus,
    4. wider area pain,
    5. perception pain
  3. Poor health habits decrease chance of healing; thus, a likely perpetuation of pain
  4. Pain itself causes increase in muscle contraction in certain muscle groups (back, neck, head, jaw)

Pearls of Pain

Acute pain vs. chronic pain

  1. Water vs oil
  2. Simple vs complex
  3. Single tx vs multiple tools
  4. PCP vs Speciality
  5. Bias acute vs discriminate chronic pain
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