either as a society or as a healthcare system, to deal with that. pain isjust, you probably know yourself, pain is huge. the prevalence of pain is anything between 20% and 50% in the uk, and we know that it s massive. but while it s an issue affecting millions of people, chris says the mechanism of how persistent pain works is not well understood. for example, if we have pain in our knee, the senses in our knee may be sending normal information to our nervous system. that data reaches the spinal cord and the spinal cord will do what it wants to do on that signal, and it may boost the signal, and it depends largely then on the decision making process to turn that into a threat signal or a normal signal. and a normal signal will feel
of the biggest tools when it comes to pain, and this place helps with that massively. that was a good shot. luke lives at home with his family. it has been tough at times, a 23 year old who had dreams of going to university. the world around me is advancing and i am trapped in a room that s the killer, and it feels like all my friends are now all in university and finding jobs. there is a period where you go through the five stages of grief. because you have a completely different life now. it was hard for my family, i know, because it is something i have thought about, is they watched their healthy young child just deteriorate in a manner that is unforeseen and unexplainable. and i know that was really, really hard on them, because i could tell by their faces. the mums and dads, they don t, they have to be strong for their kids, but you catch them looking sad, and it is, yeah, fully understandable.
that really acute, direct force. and nowjust a walk to the shops is an endurance test. i know look terrible, ifeel terrible, but good days of having a full face of makeup on to go anywhere are long gone. i have managed to shower and have washed hair so, yeah, winning at life today. jen lives with chronic pain. pain that persists and may not even have obvious physical cause. she has a problem with a disc in her back, but the pain is now extended far beyond that. 0ur bodies are designed to protect us and sometimes the system that protects us goes into overdrive. and is constantly identifying us as having a sense of danger and there isn t, so, therefore, that pain signal continues.
understand his pain. oh, the reason i am feeling pain is because oh, my nervous system is doing this, or my brain has decided that any sensation it s going to register as pain. and itjust knowledge is one of the biggest tools when it comes to pain, and this place helps with that massively. that was a good shot. luke lives at home with his family. it has been tough at times, a 23 year old who had dreams of going to university. the world around me is advancing and i am trapped in a room that s the killer, and it feels like all my friends are now all in university and finding jobs. there is a period where you go through the five stages of grief. because you have a completely different life now. it was hard for my family, i know, because it is something i have thought about, is they watched their healthy young child just deteriorate in a manner that is unforeseen and unexplainable. and i know that was really, really hard on them, because i could tell
we asked libby to keep a record of an average day to see the impact her condition has on her everyday life. i have just woken up from a really bad night of pain. it was like a combined nerve pain and muscle contractions. i m used to it, so i m just going to go about my day. walking around from place to place is creating a lot of pain, especially in my joints, but it s kind of flaring up the nerve pain from last night. i got a teddy because i m a child. i am still in a lot of pain, but at least i am in pain with a teddy now. it s been a really, really good day, but unfortunately all my good days come with quite a lot of bad days afterwards. my leg just feels so twisted, like it is being pulled