How Retraining Your Brain Could Help With Lower Back Pain
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Are you among the hundreds of millions of people worldwide with low back pain? If so, you may be familiar with standard treatments like surgery, shots, medications, and spinal manipulations. But new research suggests the solution for the world's leading cause of disability may lie in fixing how the brain and the body communicate. Setting out to challenge traditional treatments for chronic back pain, scientists across Australia, Europe, and the U.S. came together to test the effectiveness of altering how neural networks recognize pain for new research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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@kimmi Communication between your brain and back changes over time when you have chronic lower back pain, leading the brain to interpret signals from the back differently and change how you move. It is thought that these neural changes make recovery from pain slower and more complicated, according to the Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), a nonprofit research institute in Sydney, Australia.