How is PainScience.com like Chernobyl?
Weekly nuggets of pain science news and insight, usually 100-300 words, with the occasional longer post. The blog is the “director’s commentary” on the core content of PainScience.com: a library of major articles and books about common painful problems and popular treatments. See the blog archives or updates for the whole site.
This is a good, funny example of dumbing down complex scientific ideas — which is what I try to do for a living, just with healthcare information.
The equivalent conversation about pain science:
Well, the nerves—
Already too complicated.
Uh… tissue damage detected by—
Nope, sorry.
Hm, ok. Long ago, it seemed clear that getting injured was always painful…
Ok…
And now we know that sometimes we can hurt without an injury!
Oh no!
Yeah, pain is weird.