BACK PAIN SHRINKS BRAIN

Stacy, Kelli Miller (2004) “Chronic back pain may shrink the brain”MSN HEALTH. COM,12/7/04.

When an experimental group of chronic back pain sufferers were compared with regular healthy patients as controls, back pain sufferers lost up to 20 times the number of brain cells than healthy folks. The brain cell loss was in the area dealing with memory and information processing.

The loss was measured by MiR’s.

(Editor: constant pain in any area MAY cause brain cell loss. It is worth the experiment.)