School is painful sometimes. Sitting for hour upon hour, my thoracic spine starts to slump forward. My cervical spine extends in a feeble attempt to keep my head up and my suboccipitals are screaming as they strain to balance my heavy crainium. My legs are beginning to go numb from the pressure of my pelvic girdle on my femoral nerve, and I am acquiring a hip flexion contracture. My ulnar nerve is aggrivated from resting a flexed elbow on my desk and I may be getting a mild case of carpal tunnel from all this note-taking. And then I learned about chronic pain, and how I am blowing this all out of proportion in my head.
Pain is complex, they tell me. It is a product of a persons psychological, emotional, biophysical environment. Interestingly enough, the more I learned about potential sources of pain, the more I experienced personally.
The pain is in my head. And this time I'm not blaming my suboccipitals.
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