can humans defeat the neuropain using their mentality?

[adi chicago]

can the humans defeat the neuropain using their mentality only?

[Buck_Nastier]

can the humans defeat the neuropain using their mentality only?

Oh yeah, but you have to think about it really hard for a long time.
Thats why most people just take pills. :D

[adi chicago]

i red a book about the tibetan priests .levitation,pain issues.is amaizing ,but i dont know if is true or not?

[justadildo]

i don't medicate my central pain, although i can't feel anyone elses pain, i know mine is more intense than anything i ever experienced pre-injury in 37 years...i just don't allow it to run my life...all meds did was fog my brain and force me to rely on yet something else post injury for every day function...i control my pain with my brain, for me it's all about the mindset, if i think about it all the time it intensifies...if i find diversions, it is pushed back and becomes secondary.....

[Wise Young]

What is pain? It is just activity of certain parts of the nervous system. While we attribute the pain to different parts of the body and indeed those parts of the body will respond to pain-causing stimuli with inflammation and other responses, the bottom-line is that pain is nervous activity. If we shut off the brain, the responses of the body to pain are also (at least partially) shut off.

Can one control one's brain activity? There is no question that we can, although the mechanisms by which we can do so are limited. We know some drugs will selectively affect the part of the nervous system that is responsible for pain, hence the large classes of drugs called "analgesic drugs" and "anesthetic drugs". We also know that attention to pain can enhance pain and that certain types of stimuli that are not intrinsically pain-producing can elicit strong responses that are not dissimilar from pain responses (tickling the bottom of the feet, for example).

So, in theory, neural control of the pain is possible. Likewise, it should be possible to use electrical stimulation to modulate pain.

Wise.

[cljanney]

I participated in these ongoing clinical trials for pain at Stanford University last spring, brain over pain. It works well, but takes effort and practice and is hard to do while engaged with other things, like talking to someone else (kinda like trying to count and spell at the same time). Here are some write ups about the trials...

Chris

http://www.omneuron.com/technology.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14pain.html?ex=1163394000&en=d8b34b4c6d3f5900&ei=5070

NPR Audio link (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4731172)

http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/12/12/hscout529603.html

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=15004