Joanne Smith explains how the brain creates persistent pain even after an injury heals. When pain lasts longer than the expected recovery time, your brain may be generating the symptom rather than your body. She draws on her own experience with fibromyalgia and migraine with aura to show how the brain shapes pain perception.
chances are very high, especially for those that have had pain or symptoms that have gone on longer than the expected time frame for that particular injury or that particular surgery to heal or whatever it might be. The vast majority of cases are due to the fact that it's the brain that is creating the symptom even though the body is not at fault. But I'll go into more details soon. But I just wanted to share a little story from the weekend about my experience whilst out doing an ultramarathon on Saturday. So for those people that know me well, somehow along my long journey of dealing with symptoms, pain, whatever it is, I have plenty going on. Fibromyalgia symptoms, migraine with aura symptoms. Anyway, long story short, I've learned a lot about this stuff. So to the point where I know enough about it that I know that I can help others to recover.
