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Volume 4, Issue 2 American Journal of Ethnomedicine
ISSN 2348-9502
Natural Products Congress & World Pharma Congress 2017
October 16-18, 2017
3rd World Congress on
NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY AND RESEARCH
&
12th WORLD PHARMA CONGRESS
October 16-18, 2017 Budapest, Hungary
Back pain and herniated disc linked to depression
Zahra Daghighpoor
Madaen Hospital, Iran
In recent years inmany people, depression causes unexplained physical symptoms such as back pain or headaches. Whilemany
objective research studies have concluded that there is little or no correlation between herniated discs and painful symptoms.
Psychosomatic herniated disc pain is a lesser considered but very common source of enduring chronic symptoms which are
often mistakenly linked to a coincidental disc abnormality. In the case of a herniated disc, the structural condition exists, but is
not responsible for any painful complaint. The pain is actually the result of mild ischemia of the surrounding nerve and muscle
tissues. Even the lowest levels of oxygen deprivation will affect the neurological structures near the herniated disc. This will
cause localized and radiating nerve pain, tingling, numbness or weakness. The evidences suggest that psychosomatic does not
mean imaginary or not real. It simply designates actual physical symptoms which are caused by, worsened by or perpetuated
by a psychoemotional process. In essence, these symptoms are just like truly anatomically-motivated pain in their expression,
but are enacted through nonstructural processes and for nonstructural reasons. On the whole herniation is so typical in many
areas of the spine; the symptoms are often mistakenly blamed on these innocent disc irregularities. Many researchers argue that
psychosomatic pain exists due to unresolved emotional issues which are repressed in the subconscious mind. These thoughts,
feelings and memories are directly responsible for causing physical pain and related bodily or psychological symptoms as
part of the repression process. In essence, the mind will use the pain as a camouflage, concealer or smokescreen, to hide these
emotionally charged repressed thoughts. Being that these emotional issues are repressed, you do not think about them or
even know they are causing you such health troubles, since they exist under the surface of conscious thought, in the deepest
recess of your subconscious mind. As we have seen no one is immune from suffering some degree of psychosomatic pain
in life. However, medical science does not like the word psychosomatic, so you will often hear this topic being discussed as
stress-related pain instead. In fact most support the idea that even painful bulging disc should be treated conservatively and
non-surgically. The stress-related back pain diagnosis is a psychosomatic or psychophysiological one. A psycho-physiological
illness is any illness in which physical symptoms are thought to be the direct result of psychological or emotional factors. In
the final analysis oxygen deprivation, also known as ischemia back pain is the anatomical process used as the enforcer of the
subconscious mind’s desires. Simple ischemia can be enacted easily through the autonomic system and can be directed at any
of the body’s locations or systems.
Biography
Zahra Daghighpoor completed her High School Diploma in Natural Sciences from 1996 to 1997; Associate degree program in the field of Nurse Anesthetist at Iran
University of Medical Sciences (1998-2000) and BA in the field of Nurse Anesthetist at Azad University of Medical Sciences (2010-2012).
Zahra Daghighpoor, American Journal of Ethnomedicine, 4:2
DOI: 10.21767/2348-9502-C1-003