1st - vodka/oj for me, make em strong

2nd - I really enjoyed reading your post and found it quite interesting. Thank you.

I still wonder how they monitor the pain in rats?

"Rat #403...is your pain a burning pain, or more like a stabbing pain?" and ...

Rat # 24, is your RSD feeling numb at all?"

We have to answer to so many questions from our Docs....think of how they know what the heck a rat is feeling? hee hee

It is a good article, something to think about...thanks!

Hi all,

There are two types of "in your head" one is the type that we respond badly to when it is insinuated that we have control of our pain by "thinking happy thoughts" etc and then the type this article is referring to and that is that our pain is remembered by our brain which is why we still feel it long after the injury has healed.
This is what the mirror box and graded motor imagery programs work on and that is to try and trick the brain into a different mode of thinking.It seems to work well if done by a skilled physiotherapist.
I used to react very badly if I ever thought anyone thought this was a psychiatric illness but the truth of the matter is that there are a small minority of people for whom it is so we all often get tarred with the same brush by some of the medicos
Thanks for the artlicle--it was interesting.
Tayla

I can remember some heated arguments on here and the old forum about this.

I believe now though we have a better understanding of what they are meaning when they talk about this. A lot on here including me thought years ago that they were insinuating that it was all in the head.

It seems a lot of research is being done on it.

Ada