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What is Pain and how it works.
There are specialized
"receptors" in the skin and internal organs that are
sensitive to stimuli that are painful. These receptors are called
"nociceptors" and are free nerve endings connected to small
diameter myelinated A and unmyelinated C nerve fibres - these are the
nerve fibres that are LACKING in people with congenital insensitivity
to pain (People who cannot feel pain!).
Nociception, then, is the
response of the nervous system to painful stimulation. When the
nociceptors detect a nociceptive stimulus, they send a message to the
spinal cord.
A famous theory concerning how
pain works is called the Gate Control Theory devised by Patrick Wall
and Ronald Melzack in 1965. This theory states that pain is a
function of the balance between the information travelling into the
spinal cord through large nerve fibres and information travelling into
the spinal cord through small nerve fibres. Remember, large nerve
fibres carry non-nociceptive information and small nerve fibres carry nociceptive information. If the relative amount of activity is
greater in large nerve fibres, there should be little or no pain.
However, if there is more activity in small nerve fibres, then there
will be pain.
How can we suppress pain?
When the "gate theory of
pain" was devised in the mid sixties. Their idea was that when
pain signals first reach the nervous system they excite activity in a
group of small neurons that form a kind of pain "pool."
When the total activity of these neurons reaches a certain minimal
level, a hypothetical "gate" opens up that allows the pain
signals to be sent to higher brain centres. But nearby neurons in
contact with the pain cells can suppress activity in the pain pool so
that the gate stays closed. The gate-closing cells include large
neurons that are stimulated by non painful touching or pressing of
your skin. The theory explained such everyday behaviour as scratching
a scab, or rubbing a sprained ankle: the scratching and rubbing
excite just those nerve cells sensitive to touch and pressure that
can suppress the pain pool cells.
A second method of suppressing pain?
The gate theory aroused both
interest and controversy when it was first announced. Most
importantly, it stimulated research to find the conjectured pathways
and mechanisms. Pain studies got an added boost when investigators
made the surprising discovery that the brain itself produces
chemicals that can also control pain! The landmark discovery of the pain-suppressing
chemicals came about because scientists in Aberdeen, Scotland, and
at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore were curious
about how morphine and other opium-derived painkillers, or
analgesics, work.
For some time neuroscientists had
known that chemicals were important in conducting nerve signals
(small bursts of electric current) from cell to cell. In order for
the signal from one cell to reach the next in line, the first cell
secretes a chemical "neurotransmitter" from the tip of a
long fibre that extends from the cell body. The transmitter molecules
cross the gap separating the two cells and attach to special receptor
sites on the neighbouring cell surface. Some neurotransmitters excite
the second cell -- allowing it to generate an electrical signal.
Others inhibit the second cell -- preventing it from generating a signal.
When investigators found that the
morphine molecules fitted snugly into receptors on certain brain and
spinal cord neurons. The scientists wondered, should the human brain
-- the product of millions of years of evolution -- come equipped
with receptors for a man-made drug? Perhaps there were naturally
occurring brain chemicals that behaved exactly like morphine.
How can we suppress
pain with Quantum Pain Therapy?
The gate could also be closed
from above, by brain cells activating a descending pathway to block
pain. The scientists conjectured that brain-based pain control
systems were also activated when people behaved heroically
ignoring pain to finish a football game, or to help a more severely
wounded soldier on the battlefield. The Quantum Pain Therapy system will
close the gate suppressing the pain! This is simply: Healing by the living voice.
How the CD programs work.
When pain is registered in
the mind a mind code is created that can often leave people in pain long after
the healing is complete. By removing this mind code the pain is also removed.
This process is done simply by a spoken statement which is given by audio
compact disc or cassette. We are so
confident that this product will relieve you of your pain naturally,
we offer a 100% full money back guarantee! Each CD is 30 minutes in
length. Just put your feet up and relax with the CD's and allow them to drift
the pain away. These CD's are ideal for all types of chronic pain. Remember
always consult your doctor when in pain.
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