In this lesson, we explore healthy sensation and pain.
Understand the characteristics of healthy sensation and the complexity of pain, and how to use this knowledge when working with others.
Define pain and the significance of the definition. Explain negativity bias and its impact. Differentiate acute and chronic pain beyond symptom duration. Describe healthy sensation and offer a consideration related to emotional release. Define compression. Describe signs of unhealthy sensation in yoga asana. Give potential reasons a person may be unable to examine their experience of sensation and/or to communicate it. Explain what can influence pain perception and why someone might seek pain.
acute pain, chronic pain, compression (in yoga & bodywork), neuropathic pain, noci-, nociception / nociceptive system, nociceptive pain, nociceptors, noxious, pain, sensory neuron
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