How We Feel Pain
How We're Wired
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Adaptive Chronic Pain - What's Happening in Your Nervous System When You Experience Chronic Pain?
The pain that Rachel experiences is the maladaptive chronic pain we discussed earlier but what's happening in our nervous system when we experience acute pain. It turns out there are highly specialized sensory neurons that are adapted to respond only to an oxygen you know they require for example a temperature of 42 degrees and almost all of us within one or maximum two degrees of that will have that transition. They are also activated by mechanical stimuli that are potentially damaging to the tissue such as pinprick or extreme pressure. These are called nociceptors because they respond to noxious stimuli and what happens with inflammation is the nociceptic become what we call sensitized.
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