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What Pain Science Actually Tells You About Your Patient

A working field guide to nociception, sensitization, descending modulation, and mechanistic pain descriptors

The biomechanical model isn't wrong so much as incomplete, and the incompleteness shows up in the patients who don't get better — the imaging-negative back, the post-op knee whose swelling resolved but whose pain didn't. This is a synthesis of the nine-part Pain Science in Practice series in JOSPT, reorganised around clinical use rather than publication order: what a nociceptive signal is, how it gets amplified peripherally and centrally, how the body turns the volume down, and how all of that collapses into the three descriptors you'll actually write in a note. The mechanisms are kept because mechanisms are how you reason when the protocol runs out. The limitations are kept because a mechanism you overstate becomes a mechanism you misuse.