While doing pain-control directly isn’t a useful long-term strategy that doesn’t mean that the same is true for a mind-body approach that goes over how do deal with stress.
I think, as one grows old, one gets a better sense that the human body just breaks down sometimes, and doesn’t repair itself perfectly.
And it repairs itself a lot worse when it’s highly stressed.
Sure. And my comment is more aimed at the audience than at Richard—I don’t know him, and I agree that reducing stress can help, and can help more the more you’re stressed. Maybe some parts of his story seem like they could also fit with a story of injury and healing (did you know that wrists feeling strange, swollen or painful at night or after other long periods of stillness can be because of reduced flow of lymph fluid through inflamed wrists?), but they could also fit with his story of stress. I think this is one of those posts that has novelty precisely because the common view is actually right most of the time, and my past self probably needed to take the common view into account more.
It’s not either-or. Stress makes the area more tense (both fascia and muscle), and then among other effects lymph fluid doesn’t flow as well which makes it harder with the body to deal with existing inflammation.
In general dualism is not a useful framework for understanding humans.
Just to clarify: My wrists were never swollen. And they felt cold.
The common view – I know that it is right most of the time. In this case it could be part of the problem. I made another note to look into how the occurrence of wrist pain issues and the reporting about them developed in time and space. Probably I won’t get to all of this, but better have a note than not.
If psychological stress slows down healing, that would feed into the vicious cycle as well: small injury → pain → stress → injury doesn’t heal as well and gets worse → more pain.
While doing pain-control directly isn’t a useful long-term strategy that doesn’t mean that the same is true for a mind-body approach that goes over how do deal with stress.
And it repairs itself a lot worse when it’s highly stressed.
Sure. And my comment is more aimed at the audience than at Richard—I don’t know him, and I agree that reducing stress can help, and can help more the more you’re stressed. Maybe some parts of his story seem like they could also fit with a story of injury and healing (did you know that wrists feeling strange, swollen or painful at night or after other long periods of stillness can be because of reduced flow of lymph fluid through inflamed wrists?), but they could also fit with his story of stress. I think this is one of those posts that has novelty precisely because the common view is actually right most of the time, and my past self probably needed to take the common view into account more.
It’s not either-or. Stress makes the area more tense (both fascia and muscle), and then among other effects lymph fluid doesn’t flow as well which makes it harder with the body to deal with existing inflammation.
In general dualism is not a useful framework for understanding humans.
Just to clarify: My wrists were never swollen. And they felt cold.
The common view – I know that it is right most of the time. In this case it could be part of the problem. I made another note to look into how the occurrence of wrist pain issues and the reporting about them developed in time and space. Probably I won’t get to all of this, but better have a note than not.
I don’t understand the first sentence. Typo?
Do you mean psychological or physical stress?
I corrected the first sentence.
The sentence is true for both.
I still don’t understand the first sentence.
If psychological stress slows down healing, that would feed into the vicious cycle as well: small injury → pain → stress → injury doesn’t heal as well and gets worse → more pain.
It can happen in that direction, but it’s a very simplified model.