On 9/2/00, Dave....?< [log in to unmask]> wrote:
<< So how long the chronic pain would be last normally? a few years? or it
would disappear automatically? >>
***In many spinal patients the chronic pain lasts their entire lifetimes and
in some cases, the level is so persistently high that the sufferers commit
suicide. For example, my disabled wife has experienced unmitigated pain for
some 15 years now.
Dealing with the care of spinal patients (and brain damaged patients) is a
huge challenge, one which makes realise that we still have a great way to go
before we can say that we really understand how the nervous systems of the
body and its central command centre (the brain) operate.
It appears as if Melzack-Walls theory of gating and other theories of pain
need to take into account the apparent contradictions and paradoxes of pain
experienced by spinal and brain patients in order for us to more fully
understand and manage pain. It seems as if some of the work emerging from
nonlinear systems, chaos, catastrophe and fuzzy theory may help in this
regard, as well as the often neglected work of Nobel Prize winner,
Szent-Gyorgyi (who discovered actin and was the first person to isolate
vitamin C), and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Becker, in which slowly varying
or quasi-DC (direct current) fields may initiate or control pain and other
neural processes in the body (see books such as Becker's "The Body Electric"
for some details of such concepts).
I think that Barrett Dorko may still be on this group and he might well care
to add some remarks on concepts such as these.
Mel Siff
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
http://www.egroups.com/group/supertraining
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