![]() If only ‘anxiety’ was more widely viewed as a physiological disturbance with associated psychological effects, rather than the other way around. Medical causes of anxiety: anxiety as a symptom Many of actually do have interesting notes.Īcupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain. “Boring” footnotes usually contain scientific citations from my giant bibliography of pain science. Because anxious people need some of that. This article zooms in on some practical, creative, and efficient strategies for calming down and “hacking” anxiety - extra tools for an “everything but the kitchen sink” approach. Exercise is definitely valuable, but most people can’t beat anxiety just by working out, especially if they are in pain. The basics of therapy for anxiety are obviously insufficient for many people. Treating them can be like fighting smoke. Anxiety disorders are a frustrating glitch in the modern human condition. Some anxiety is essential for our survival - a prehistoric human that didn’t worry wouldn’t live long - but it probably evolved as a strategy for anticipating and neutralizing threats that we no longer face. At least 3 symptoms must drive you nuts for 6 months for a formal GAD diagnosis. Generalized anxiety disorder ( GAD) occurs when that feeling gets chronic, excessive, uncontrollable, irrational, and associated with surprisingly diverse symptoms. Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease. 3 Although the treatment of anxiety is outside my own expertise, as a “pain guy” it feels like familiar territory: anxiety is the other side of the chronic pain coin. ![]() It probably amplifies pain perception and suffering across the board, but it gets worse: it may also actually cause pain we wouldn’t otherwise have, by actually making us more prone to inflammation. It begins with a statement like “I hold a lot of tension in my back” or “This pain is always the worst when I’m under a lot of stress.” And it often ends up at the chicken-and-egg question: did anxiety cause the pain, or is the pain causing the anxiety?Įxcessive and chronic anxiety may be a potent root cause for an awful lot of back pain, neck pain, 1 and perhaps any other kind of chronic pain, not to mention a bizarre array of other physical symptoms 2 ( WebMD has a good complete list). ![]() ![]() Conversations about chronic painful problems routinely turn into conversations about anxiety. ![]()
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