What Are Symptoms? (Pain Perception & The Brain)

Symptoms are perceived in the brain. Why should you care and what does that mean

for you? Stay tuned hey I'm Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd

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miss anything. What are symptoms? Symptoms is usually something unpleasant and... but

if we think about it all symptoms are perceived by the brain

so anytime that you feel anything at all whether it is happiness or sadness or

pain or an itch or stomach discomfort it means that at some level the brain is

interpreting a set of signal the brain is making an interpretation the brain is

the only place where you can interpret or perceive or experience anything so an

interesting illustration to kind of help bring home that point is something

called phantom limb pain so this happens in people who have an accident and who

have a body part amputated so if someone steps on a landmine and they get their

leg amputated then years later they could have pain in that foot that no

longer exists so the brain is making an interpretation based on some confused

set of signals that is coming from an area of the body that isn't there

anymore so think about that for a second do you think it's possible that if you

can experience pain from a body part that doesn't exist do you think it's

possible that the pain that you're having in your arm or shoulder isn't

really coming from the arm or the shoulder of course and that's what

holism means that we understand that the brain makes an interpretation based on

incoming information from all sorts of different areas and what

you experience as wrist pain or shoulder pain or back pain or a headache could be

coming from information that is related to something completely different so in

the medical system it is all about treating symptoms there is no point in

treating you if you don't have a symptom and if you can reduce the symptom then

they are successful but it has nothing to do with whether you actually get

healthier if something works better if you bring more balance so they always

focus on the location of the pain so if you have carpal tunnel pain then they

give you a surgery they cut at the site of pain they give you an in

anti-inflammatory they give you a medication to cut the signal of that

pain from getting through but it doesn't assist the brain in any way of making

better interpretations better judgments it's just a localized effect

Chiropractic on the other hand doesn't work with drugs or surgery so how does

it work well if you get a chiropractic adjustment and you get pain relief then

what happened is you help the brain make a different interpretation you change

the brains perception sure you could change a few factors you could change a

few signals you could change some blood flow at different parts in the body but

primarily what happened as an end result is that you changed how your brain

perceives things and chiropractors often talk about that you have a spine that's

misaligned you have a bone out of place and they tell you that they're going to

move the bone back in place and that's going to make things better but

chiropractic is not about moving the bone chiropractic is about what happens

in the brain as a result of moving the bone chiropractors do not take pressure

off nerves they put pressure on receptors by stimulating reset

we give the brain better information we give it an opportunity to take make a

better interpretation to have a better perception and that's important because

now once we understand that now we understand that the pain in the body

could be coming from anything that changes a signal that changes the brains

interpretation so anything that changes signals is the true cause of the problem

so sure you could have a trauma you can have a physical trauma

you could have an accident and that's kind of what people understand yeah yeah

we have a mechanical problem comes from mechanical trauma well it could also

come from anything else that changes signal such as a food allergy or a

chemical toxicity or a stressful thought it could also come from having a poor

gut flora from having a poor intestinal integrity from having a leaky gut and

from having a lot of pathogenic bacteria that produce a lot of toxins so you can

have a toxic chemical factory in your gut essentially that is constantly

leaking out through your gut so any of these factors could be equally

responsible for that neck pain or that headache or that rash or anything else

that is going on in your body because ultimately everything is a perception of

the brain and everything is controlled and regulated by the brain and if we

truly want to get to the bottom of things we need to start understanding

that that is the common denominator the brain and the cause is any factor that

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