Why does your pain jump from one area to the next?

Have you ever wondered how you got rid of one pain and then something else shows up?
Your shoulder was sore, then it went away…and now your hip hurts?!

WHY?! Why does pain sometimes jump around instead of simply disappearing?

It is because of your central nervous system.
We have nociceptors (sensory nerve endings in the body that tell the brain there is a threat), which the brain can then send out pain signals to anywhere.
It isn’t specific to each muscle, it lights up the system in general.

So when the body suspects threat, even if there isn’t any, the brain reacts.

So, if you’re someone with an overwhelmed nervous system, stuck in fight or flight and so on, this could be keeping you in pain.

This makes the nervous system, particularly cranial nerves, so important in helping pain.

It explains why you can have pain somewhere but treating that area might not be the thing that resolves it.

It is the reasoning for why we cannot focus on just one area or one system, when the pain is moving around and becomes chronic.

So when I ask if I can treat inside your ear to help your jaw pain, or move your eyes without moving your head, just trust that I am using science to inhibit your pain.

Simply, when we calm down our central nervous system, we tell the brain we are safe, and it can slow down on pumping out pain signals.