Stress and chronic pain: The connection most people miss
By Kenneth Collins · 6 min read
Many people treat stress and chronic pain as two separate problems. But biologically, they are closely connected — and that's one of the reasons treatment that only focuses on one rarely solves the other.
What happens in the body under stress?
When you experience stress, your brain activates the hypothalamus — the body's alarm center. This triggers a cascade of hormones, primarily cortisol and adrenaline, that prepare the body for fight or flight: heart racing, muscles tensing, breathing accelerating.
This is perfect for short-term danger. But when stress is chronic, the body remains in this alarm state — and that creates problems.
Stress amplifies pain — biologically
Cortisol is anti-inflammatory in the short term. But with chronic stress, the opposite happens: the body becomes desensitized to cortisol, and inflammation rises. This directly increases pain sensitivity.
The vicious cycle:
To break the vicious cycle, you need to work on both fronts: reduce the nervous system's alarm state AND correct the sensors sending faulty signals. That's exactly what Body Correction does.
Living with both stress and pain?
They're probably connected. Book an initial examination and find the cause.
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