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PAIN PROTECTS US FROM DANGER: BUT WHAT IF PAIN PERSISTS?
When you first get hurt, pain is your brain’s way of telling you that something is wrong and that you need to attend to it. Nociceptors are nerves that detect changes in pressure, chemical balance and temperature that may be dangerous to you. The brain has to evaluate this information and does so in the context of your social norms, beliefs, and your expectations. The brain decides if the body is in danger and then triggers a pain response based on that information. Pain protects us from danger:
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Pain is the body’s way of telling us that something is out of balance. Yet often where we experience pain is not necessarily at the place of the movement limitation. If we consider the body and muscles as an elaborate system, then when one area of the body is stuck tight and short, it is plausible that this area of tightness can pull, tug or restrict movement and inhibit proper functioning in other parts of the body.Somatics explains that muscles become habituated short and tight in response to