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Pain Does Not Always Equal Damage: The Physiology and Psychology Behind Pain and What Your Brain Is Actually Telling You

Pain Does Not Always Equal Damage: The Physiology and Psychology Behind Pain and What Your Brain Is Actually Telling You

Your nervous system has one primary job: keep you safe. Everything it does, including producing pain, is in service of that goal. But here's what most of us assume: if we're in pain, it's because there's damage. The pain level tells us how bad the damage is. So, more pain = more damage. That's not actually how it works. Professor Lorimer Moseley, one of the world's leading pain researchers, put...