Hi everyone!
I’ve just discovered this awesome talk on central sensitization by pain management physician Dr. Jay Joshi. It’s totally packed with information I want to share with you all– such as why it’s so hard to get help for central sensitization, and how ketamine infusion treatments can help. There’s so much here, though, that I thought I’d break it down into bite-sized information for you.
So, to start out, let’s look at what Dr. Joshi says are the four main types of pain. (For the purposes of this blog post, I’m actually jumping ahead to the 8:50 mark– later, we’ll come back to the beginning).
The four types:
- Nociceptive
- Neuropathic
- Inflammatory
- Central Sensitization
1. Nociceptive pain: pain that results from actual tissue damage, or potential tissue damage (like if you’re starting to bend a joint past its normal range of motion). It is “the common discomfort we have…
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