Recently we saw that some people appear to be sitting ducks for chronic pain. Their brains have apparently reached a state, unbeknownst to them, where all that’s needed for a chronic pain state to emerge is a triggering event such as an injury. That triggering...
The Pain Mystery It’s an incredible thing; Americans spend up to 600 billion (billion with a B) dollars to treat pain. Almost 30% percent of people with pain have low back pain and about 25% of them have chronic low back pain. You’d think with that many...
(Dr. Baraniuk finds damage to a critical nerve pathway that connects regions of the brain involved in fatigue and pain production and autonomic nervous system regulation. The damage, which affects the integrity of the nerve axons, is unusual and suggests GWS and...
In Wyller’s eyes chronic fatigue syndrome is not a ‘chronic fatigue’ disorder; it’s an autonomic nervous system disorder. Wyller has been studying ME/CFS for about five years; he knows the vast array of symptoms present in this disease and...
When people with ME/CFS say they’re not the same person they used to be, it’s not just physical illness they’re talking about it; for many the ‘mental component’; the loss of sharpness, of focus, of the ‘cognitive grace’ they...