Why Do My Joints Hurt More When It Rains?

One of the most common problems I hear about patients suffering chronic pain is that the rainy weather seems to make things worse. Is there a real biological reason for this or is it just an old wives tale that has been passed through time?

Do not Stop Believing: The uncontrollable factor

People talked of how they view the weather in your joints for thousands of years. You have probably heard of this phenomenon from your grandmother or other relative whose arthritis pain exploded when it rains. You might say they feel the rain in his bones.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was the first to observe changes in the disease status of a person due to bad weather around the year 400 BC. However, this idea has always been around, studies on this phenomenon have been inconclusive. Some studies show that patients with pain can feel the difference, while others say that time makes no difference.

It is difficult to study this effect by the impact of belief systems about the pain. When humans have a fairly strong in something that can greatly affect your perception of the belief the world. This is seen in the pain of science all the time, and makes studying a very challenging and difficult pain.

Short lock people in a box and hiding the weather reports, it is difficult to know how it affects humans with any degree of certainty.

Animal studies leaving clues

While the belief systems can affect humans, some of our furry friends have helped stop some clues.

Scientists believe that people pressure (barometric pressure) air to feel pain when the weather changes. When the storms come, the pressure in the atmosphere begins to fall. The theory is that air pressure decreases, the amount of pressure on your joints leading to joints and soft tissues to expand and irritates nerve endings causing pain.

In West Palm Beach, you get a ton of storms so patients in pain have the unfortunate opportunity to learn regularly.

Scientists tested this idea in guinea pigs and rats. The animals were separated into two groups. The first group had pain at artificially low air pressure. The second group had pain at normal air pressure.

They found that the low pressure of the animals showed increased pain behaviors compared to controls.

This is important because you can not influence or persuade an animal less pressure, it will hurt more. It is much closer to the cause and effect that can now be studied in human relationship.

And Then? Is it treatable?

So we know that climate change will feel when you have pain syndromes is at least plausible, based on animal models, but why is this and is treatable? The truth is that not even really know what mechanisms cause this kind of pain that we have no idea if it is treatable or preventable.

Based on my experience, I believe that when the pain tends to be on or aggrevated by time, there is probably a pain management problem in the body.

Tissue damage vs pain perception

The most common condition associated with pain related to climate are osteoarthritis (arthritis wear, no joints in arthritis fire), headache, and fibromyalgia. The important thing to note about these three conditions is that the pain associated with these conditions does not depend on tissue damage. What does that mean?

This means that the level of pain associated with these conditions are not related to the amount of damage that is found in the body. When you have a sprained ankle, fractures, muscle tear or a cut, no damage to the tissue that triggers a series of chemical signals to cause pain response. There is a linear relationship.

With joint degeneration, you may feel pain, it can not. With headaches and fibromyalgia, there is not necessarily any physical damage is related to the pain.

Not to say that the pain is not real, it just means that there is no obvious source of damage that is causing pain. The problem is the way the brain processes pain. Your brain has a built in volume control for pain perception. Can convert these signals in certain situations, and can reject others. Chronic pain have a volume control on top all the time.

It is not only a matter of belief. While this is an important piece of the puzzle, other factors such as:

Cerebral oxygenation
The hormones in the blood
World Inflammation
Joint movement, especially in the spine

That's why the pain is not only a physical phenomenon. I'm sure you've been in a situation in which you are injured, but not felt until much later. This often happens after the shock of the car accident, the pleasure of playing in a championship game, or when they try to escape a dangerous situation.

You get dizzy, your heart racing, adrenaline is emerging in the veins, and you do not notice any pain until hours later, when hormones go from the bloodstream. This means that the pain is malleable based on the internal and external environment.

This is good news and bad news.

Bad news: This means that in many cases it may not be a treatable lesion that is the cause of some of the chronic pain problems you feel.

Good news: It also means that your pain levels are malleable and there are different things you can do to reduce the amount of pain experienced. Things like meditation, exercise and cognitive therapy everyone can afford to change our experience with pain, and get a bit more control over how we feel. It gives us control over the volume control.

This is actually one of the main Atlas correctional mechanisms can help people with headaches, fibromyalgia and pain syndromes associated with arthritis. We are not fixing or repairing damaged tissues, we create an environment conducive to the healthy neurological function.

When the structure of the head and neck are interrupted, decreased by 2 things:

supply of blood in and out of the brain
Mechanical input in the brain

These two factors make the brain more sensitive to pain signals. When the column moves better and normal blood supply is restored, you can see not only an improvement in the weather-related pain of someone, but also a better resistance and control of chronic pain syndromes.

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