Klockan är runt ett på natten nu, har nyss skrivit klar hemtentan som ska vara inne imorgon. Sista uppgiften var att med metaforer förklara kronisk smärta i ryggen (och eventuella bidragande faktorer) på ett lätt sätt för patienten. Det märks att min hjärna är lite mosig just nu, flummar runt värre än en haschtomte. Dr Slater kommer nog antingen att ha kul när hon rättar min tenta eller bara skaka på huvudet och önska att hon slapp vara min handledare i fortsättningen...
Men jag bjuder på denna storyn:
Imagine a fourteen-year-old girl, falling in love with the cutest boy in the neighbourhood. It is her first crush ever, and luckily the boy likes her too. Now, think of the girl as the brain, and the boy as the injury, or if you like, really annoying pain. Comparing this to your body, every time you get a injury in the body, a pain signal will be sent to the brain. As long as the boy is in love with the girl, he will send her love letters. This means; as long as you have an injury, the pain will be signalled to the brain. The pain has a reason, it is protective for the body, preventing it from causing more harm to the injured body parts. The same goes for our love couple; as long as the boy sends the girl love letters, the relationship is on. The longer relationship, the more the girl falls in love with the boy. But one day the boy disappears, and the love letters stop coming. Since they were a couple for many weeks, it is a hard loss. She cannot forget him, and is still in love after two weeks. The same goes for the body. If the pain were consistent for a longer period of time, the nerve system (the mailman delivering the love letters if you like) goes crazy. Even though there are no pain signals coming into the brain, that is what it thinks. So every time the poor girl gets a boring letter from grandma, the mailman tricks her to believe it is from her former boyfriend. She is constantly reminded, and therefore the love fades very slowly. Compare the boring letter to a normal input from your body, for example touch on your skin or maybe just using a muscle. Every time this happens, your brain thinks it is a love letter. The mailman has gone crazy, and the girl is starting to. Add a pink mailbox to this, making the letters look even prettier. Meaning that a underlying fear of pain, makes the incoming harmless signal look even more like pain. This means that the nervous system are reacting in a way that it is not supposed to do normally, and the brain is starting to get the wrong ideas. To solve this, one solution can be that the girl needs help from her mum to get a new mailman, or painting the mailbox blue. Not saying you need a new nervous system, but sometimes we need to target the pain from the top instead- the brain. Sometimes someone professional to talk to and getting help to sort contributing factors out can solve the pain problem.
I'm out, gonatt
Sofie
Men jag bjuder på denna storyn:
Imagine a fourteen-year-old girl, falling in love with the cutest boy in the neighbourhood. It is her first crush ever, and luckily the boy likes her too. Now, think of the girl as the brain, and the boy as the injury, or if you like, really annoying pain. Comparing this to your body, every time you get a injury in the body, a pain signal will be sent to the brain. As long as the boy is in love with the girl, he will send her love letters. This means; as long as you have an injury, the pain will be signalled to the brain. The pain has a reason, it is protective for the body, preventing it from causing more harm to the injured body parts. The same goes for our love couple; as long as the boy sends the girl love letters, the relationship is on. The longer relationship, the more the girl falls in love with the boy. But one day the boy disappears, and the love letters stop coming. Since they were a couple for many weeks, it is a hard loss. She cannot forget him, and is still in love after two weeks. The same goes for the body. If the pain were consistent for a longer period of time, the nerve system (the mailman delivering the love letters if you like) goes crazy. Even though there are no pain signals coming into the brain, that is what it thinks. So every time the poor girl gets a boring letter from grandma, the mailman tricks her to believe it is from her former boyfriend. She is constantly reminded, and therefore the love fades very slowly. Compare the boring letter to a normal input from your body, for example touch on your skin or maybe just using a muscle. Every time this happens, your brain thinks it is a love letter. The mailman has gone crazy, and the girl is starting to. Add a pink mailbox to this, making the letters look even prettier. Meaning that a underlying fear of pain, makes the incoming harmless signal look even more like pain. This means that the nervous system are reacting in a way that it is not supposed to do normally, and the brain is starting to get the wrong ideas. To solve this, one solution can be that the girl needs help from her mum to get a new mailman, or painting the mailbox blue. Not saying you need a new nervous system, but sometimes we need to target the pain from the top instead- the brain. Sometimes someone professional to talk to and getting help to sort contributing factors out can solve the pain problem.
I'm out, gonatt
Sofie
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