Quite often when we are dealing with pain, especially if it has been around for a long time, we can accept this is “our” normal and just something we have to put up with. But this is not the case.

The reason most people experience pain is through previous injury, traumas, scars from operations or injuries, sprains, knocks to the body, and many other reasons. And the reason pain can still be there is not through damage but through the perception of damage that the brain still perceives.

Think about it like this. Your body should be telling the brain 12345.

But instead, your body is telling your brain 13524. It has all the right numbers, but because it’s disorganised, your brain perceives this as pain, as a threat. In other words, it perceives that there is still a problem there. Most people after an accident or trauma will heal within 6 to 12 weeks. But the pain and after-effects can be with the body for life. Unless this is treated. This is where functional neurology can help.