{"id":85880,"date":"2018-12-16T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T16:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/unpacking-pain-what-causes-it-and-why-its-hard-to-measure"},"modified":"2018-12-16T08:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T16:03:19","slug":"unpacking-pain-what-causes-it-and-why-its-hard-to-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/unpacking-pain-what-causes-it-and-why-its-hard-to-measure","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking pain: what causes it and why it\u2019s hard to measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unpacking-pain-what-causes-it-and-why-its-hard-to-measure.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Past experience matters too. For example, if the last time a person felt a twinge in their lower back it developed into sciatica, with significant pain that took months of therapy to come right, the next time they experience a twinge in their back the person is likely to experience more anxiety and pain. Pain, you see, isn\u2019t an input to the body, rather pain is an output of the brain\u2019s threat detection system.<\/p>\n<p>Another major factor is a person\u2019s current state of mind. They may rate a noxious stimulus differently from day to day, or even within a day. Indeed, from your own experiences, you might appreciate that pain associated with an injury isn\u2019t constant throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also significant variation in pain sensitivity and tolerance between people.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/unpacking-pain-what-causes-it-and-why-its-hard-to-measure-108429\">http:\/\/theconversation.com\/unpacking-pain-what-causes-it-and...ure-108429<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past experience matters too. For example, if the last time a person felt a twinge in their lower back it developed into sciatica, with significant pain that took months of therapy to come right, the next time they experience a twinge in their back the person is likely to experience more anxiety and pain. Pain, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}