Sentences with phrase «because pain pathways»

«Because pain pathways throughout the body are amplified in fibromyalgia patients, pain can occur anywhere, so chronic headaches, visceral pain and sensory hyper - responsiveness are common in people with this painful condition,» said Clauw.

Not exact matches

This referred pain can happen because the breasts and the muscle strain share the same nerve pathways.

Because opioid pathways are involved in diverse processes in the brain that aren't all directly related to pain, he says, «I didn't come away with the impression that this definitively means that empathy and pain share fundamental processes.»

Dr. Bohn's team has identified several molecules considered to be «biased agonists» because they act at the opioid receptor to stimulate pain relief, but cause less stimulation of the pathway that leads to respiratory suppression.

«Opium has been around since the beginning of recorded history, and we'll likely always have opioids because they work so intimately on pain pathways,» says Gary Brenner, assistant professor in anesthesia and director of the MGH Pain Medicine Fellowship «We just need to do a better job eliminating side effects and building a bigger armamentarium of treatments — so that we can rely less on opioids.»

Very often pain is increased because of nutrient imbalances and in particular an issue with low folate or problems with making the folate conversions needed to support these detox pathways.

It usually happens Because of the hypersensitivity due to the damage on spinothalamic pathways and / or dorsal horn neurons Abnormal sensitivity in head, shoulder, neck, axillar and sternal regions is prominent in several patients with syringomyelia but pain severity is not directly correlated with the amount of the fluid inside the spinal cord.

According to the principle of analogy, because cats and dogs have neural pathways and neurotransmitters that are similar, if not identical, to those of humans, it is highly likely animals experience pain similarly.»