Connection between Trauma and Physical Pain

In recent years we have come to know that chronic pain is not only caused by physical injury, but that emotional trauma and stress are also cause of physical pain.

Those individuals who have experienced trauma at some point of their lives and who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are shown to be at higher risk to develop chronic pain.

Researchers have studied the relationship between mind and body for many decades and have discovered that unresolved emotional trauma affects our physical health and stress related issues to large extent.

Some studies show that approximately 15 to 30 percent of patients with chronic pain suffer from PTSD.

Researchers claim that when we experience any physical pain, this is a sign that there is still emotional work to be done and that underlying trauma in the nervous system needs to be addressed.

Sometimes it can seem to us that we have put traumatic events behind us, however our body could be still holding onto the unresolved emotional issues.

Harvard’s Centre on the Developing Child, points out that the effects of experiencing repeated stress as a child “…persist far into adulthood, and lead to lifelong impairments in both physical and mental health.”

Institute for Chronic Pain claims that as a group, people with chronic pain tend to report much higher rates of having experienced trauma in their past, when compared to people without chronic pain. It is a common and consistent finding in the research.

Those with chronic pain tend to report much higher rates of trauma, when compared to people without chronic pain.

According to them those findings are consistent and common.

“Upwards of 90% of women with fibromyalgia syndrome report trauma in either their childhood or adulthood and 60% of those with arthritis report such a trauma history.

With or without back surgery, upwards of 76% of patients with chronic low back pain report having had at least one trauma in their past.

Sixty-six percent of women with chronic headache report a past history of physical or sexual abuse.

Among men and women, fifty-eight percent of those with migraines report histories of childhood physical or sexual abuse, or neglect.

Women with chronic pelvic pain also report high rates of sexual abuse in their past, upwards of 56%.

Since trauma is clearly proven to have a strong link with the chronic pain and other physical conditions here at the Mental Wellbeing Therapy we also believe that healing the unresolved emotional trauma held within the body Is essential to a true long-term recovery from mental or physical pain.

We use our Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) approach which combines Psychology, Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy and Neuroscience to really get to the root cause of any physical or mental issue.

We uncover the root cause and rewire your mind with new, supportive beliefs to help you move forward in a positive, empowering way.

With our Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) approach, we succeed where other therapists don’t.