#Pain Science

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Neurocentric Approach to Mechanical Pain - DNM in Vancouver, BC April 4-6, 2025

It is a two-and-a-half-day workshop that will teach the philosophy, methods and techniques of DNM, which stands for Dermoneuromodulating. The course aims to help people understand pain and the nervous system and includes a hands-on, practical application.

Introducing DNM: Unlocking the Potential of Dermoneuromodulation. Are you an RMT looking to expand your skills, enhance your practice, and deliver exceptional results to your clients? Look no further; we are thrilled to present an exclusive opportunity for RMTs in beautiful Golden, BC, at 806 10th Ave S! DNM: The Complete Integration of Philosophy, Method, and Techniques We are excited to introduce DNM, Dermoneuromodulation, a groundbreaking approach that can revolutionize how you treat your clients. Led by the esteemed Michael Reoch, RMT, our course will take you through the philosophy, method, and techniques of DNM, empowering you to achieve remarkable outcomes for your clients. Why DNM? Unleash Your Full Potential DNM is not just another technique; it's a comprehensive system that allows you to go beyond the ordinary and create profound changes in your client's well-being. Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or a fresh face in the industry, DNM has something unique to offer: 1. Holistic Philosophy: By understanding the intricate connections between the person, the dermis, the nervous system, and the musculoskeletal system, DNM gives you a holistic perspective that can lead to lasting results. 2. Effective Method: DNM revolves around the concept of gentle, intentional touch. This helps you establish a deep connection with your clients and facilitates the body's natural healing mechanisms. It also ensures that each treatment is uniquely designed for your client's needs. 3. Incorporate your already established Techniques: From myofascial release to neural mobilization, positional release, and sensory integration, DNM equips you with a robust philosophy of care that you can apply to your favourite techniques. This allows you to address a wide range of conditions and deliver exceptional outcomes that resonate with your clients. About Michael Reoch, RMT: You Instructor Leading this transformative course is none other than Michael Reoch, an RMT with extensive experience in DNM. Michael's passion for teaching and commitment to excellence have made him a trusted name in the industry. His expertise and dedication will ensure you receive the highest quality education and guidance throughout the course. Join Us in Vancouver, BC: Beautiful Surroundings for a Transformative Experience

Don't Miss Out - Secure Your Spot Today: Click the link below!

In the field of Manual Therapy, there are many techniques used to treat people in pain. These techniques involve pushing, pulling, and twisting skin and soft tissue. DNM uses techniques that change the state of the nervous system in the skin, spinal cord and brain to make it less painful and reactive.

Studies have demonstrated that touch has significant psychological and physiological impacts, with the nervous system regulating these effects. To effectively use Manual Therapy as a pain treatment, it's important to comprehend pain physiology through a social, biological, and psychological perspective. Research has indicated that establishing a non-threatening treatment environment for the patient is vital.

The skin is closely tied to the nervous system, which makes up around 2% of our body weight but uses 20% of our O2 and glucose at all times. Nerves do not respond well to sustained mechanical deformation, specifically compression and stretch. Dermoneuromodulating is a method that considers the nervous system of the patient to treat from "skin cell to sense of self." Techniques are usually light, and holds are slow.

DNM is a form of personalized manual care that targets nervous system signals to reduce discomfort and pain. This approach involves collaboration between therapist and patient to alleviate tenderness and improve well-being. Regardless of the damage in the affected area, DNM can effectively reduce pain.

The term DNM Stands for Dermo (skin), Neuro (nervous system) Modulation (a change from one state to another). It is a method of manual therapy/massage therapy used to change the state of the nervous system from a painful hyperactive state to a less painful and reactive one through receptors in the skin.

In Manual Therapy (MT), hundreds of techniques and methods attempt to approach treating people in pain. These maneuvers' speed, duration and force may differ, but the underlying mechanistic effects all follow the same rules. They can all agree that we push, pull and twist skin directly and soft tissue indirectly.

Lately, there has been considerable growth in research around the mechanisms of massage and other manual therapies, with a drift into the neuroscience involved in pain.

Two processes seem to be apparent when we look at the research: 

First, the effects of touch have strong psychological and physiological effects. 

The nervous system controls these effects. 

If we use Manual Therapy as a treatment for pain resolution, we should look at understanding pain physiology within a social, biological and psychological framework. 

What we know from studying the non-specific effects of physical medicine is that we should strive for a treatment environment that creates the least amount of threat to the person being treated; therefore, We should act, dress and keep the treatment space in a way that won’t put the patient on the defensive. 

We know that we touch the skin primarily in manual therapy and that the skin is intimately tied into the nervous system embryologically as both arrive from the ectoderm. 

We know that the Nervous System makes up around 2% of our body by weight but uses 20% of our O2 and Glucose at all times.

The nervous system carries impulses from the peripheral (and from within), which are processed in the spinal cord and Brain to create an output response. If the impulses are deemed dangerous enough, the output is pain. 

We know that pain is a complex process that depends on contextual, psychological and biological factors that mostly happen without our conscious perception and that pain can’t happen without a nervous system. 

The human body has 72 kilometres of nerves, intimately connected to the vascular system millimetre by millimetre.

Nerves do not respond well to sustained mechanical deformation, specifically, compression more than stretch.

Dermoneuromodulating is a method that attempts to take these facts as an underlying framework for an interactive, hands-on approach to treating the experience of pain. It considers the nervous system of the patient to treat from “skin cell to sense of self.” Techniques are usually light, and holds are slow. Limbs and trunk are positioned to affect deeper nerve structures in combination with skin stretch. This is done to potentially shorten and widen a nerve's container, thus reducing mechanical deformation of the nerve. 

DNM is a method of manual care that puts the patient and their needs first. Instead of operating a recipe treatment, the treatment is an interaction between the patient and the therapist. The therapist and patient work together to find the areas that need attention and remove the tenderness and pain felt in that area. The focus is on changing the signalling within the nervous system to decrease discomfort. Pain does not happen in the muscles and other tissue but in the nervous system itself; therefore, whether or not the area of pain is damaged, we can reduce that pain with DNM.

[hellsitegenetics]

pls do the lyrics of DNA. by Kendrick Lamar

It would be so funny

Bc you do DNA so y'know

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Closest match: Myripristis murdjan genome assembly, chromosome: 24 Common name: Pinecone Soldierfish

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[anarchysammichh]

I don't know how, when or why Stanley would bring the Dr Pine puppet to the pool but I couldn't just not draw this once the idea came to me

I'm sorry but Ford SHAKING with the same amount of rage as Stanley in this scene is so fucking ridiculous to me I couldnt resist

[zorangezest]

(part 2) the misery continues. this au is actually the only thing I’ve been drawing it’s eaten all of my brain. ive been hit with a category five brainrot beam

general tw for blood and bad times for this whole series.

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[markscherz]

I put it to you that Scaphiophryne marmorata is peak frog.

Why?

Well first, it's pretty round, which is key.

Now get a load of those fingers.

Big, expanded discs at the end, ideal for climbing.

But what's happening back there with those toes? No discs there. Those are good for walking and hopping around on the ground.

Now, let's gently turn them over

First, excellent tum, 17 out of 10, no notes.

But what's that at the base of the foot? Those big projections? Yep, those are spades. This climbing, hopping frog is an excellent digger!

I like to think of these Scaphiophryne as all-terrain frogs. They're basically good at everything. They defy our categorical labels of 'arboreal', 'terrestrial', or 'fossorial', and say 'por qué no los tres?'—but in Malagasy, so 'nahoana no tsy izy telo?'

[mattmurdeaux]

THE MURDOCK HOTNESS/PAIN SCALE:

A qualitative scale indicating that Matt Murdock's hotness is directly proportional to the level of pain he is experiencing

[mindblowingscience]

If you do a web search for "back pain and posture," you'll be met with articles about the effects of poor posture on the body, guides telling you how to reduce your back pain with posture exercises, and ads for all kinds of posture-correcting back braces and ergonomic devices. It seems to make sense. After all, we've been told that good posture makes us healthier and less susceptible to injury, and that bad posture leads to aches and pains down the line.  But several researchers and clinicians say that there's not much evidence to support commonly held beliefs that bad posture leads to pain.

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[lichenaday]

Parmelia discordans

Lichens like to fuck with me. OK not just me, but lichenologists, taxonomists, naturalists, etc. They reject our attempts to classify them in any way that matters to us. Take P. discordans, which is visually very similar to P. omphalodes, but differs in its chemical composition, one of the key traits used to distinguish lichens from one another. However, recent genetic analysis has nested P. discrodans within the P. omphalodes group genetically. So is it worth describing these lichens as separate species for ID purposes, or should we synonymize them for simplicities sake? That's the controversy, that's the fuckery. And this happens ALL THE DAMN TIME. For the purposes of this blog I am gonna go ahead and describe P. discordans as its own thing, but know that I know this is a tenuous position to take. This foliose lichen grows in closely appressed rosettes up to 10 cm across on siliceous rocks in costal and upland regions of Europe. It has angular, sublinear lobes with a dark brown upper surface lined with white pseudocyphellae. The lower surface is black with abundant, forked rhizines. It has cup-shaped, concolorous apothecia. And as noted earlier, P. discordans differs chemically as it produces protocetaric acid instead of salazinic acid as in P. omphalodes.

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[cent-scratchnsniff]

something bad did indeed happen to that man. spent abt 25 minutes trying to find a better picture of that one (1) offical piece with his eyes open that wasnt compressed or tiny

[wellandable]

Neurocentric Approach to Mechanical Pain - DNM in Vancouver, BC

It is a two-and-a-half-day workshop that will teach the philosophy, methods and techniques of DNM, which stands for Dermoneuromodulating. The course aims to help people understand pain and the nervous system and includes a hands-on, practical application.

Introducing DNM: Unlocking the Potential of Dermoneuromodulation. Are you an RMT looking to expand your skills, enhance your practice, and deliver exceptional results to your clients? Look no further; we are thrilled to present an exclusive opportunity for RMTs in beautiful Golden, BC, at 806 10th Ave S! DNM: The Complete Integration of Philosophy, Method, and Techniques We are excited to introduce DNM, also known as Dermoneuromodulation, a groundbreaking approach that can revolutionize how you treat your clients. Led by the esteemed Michael Reoch, RMT, our course will take you through the philosophy, method, and techniques of DNM, empowering you to achieve remarkable outcomes for your clients. Why DNM? Unleash Your Full Potential DNM is not just another technique; it's a comprehensive system that allows you to go beyond the ordinary and create profound changes in your client's well-being. Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or a fresh face in the industry, DNM has something unique to offer: 1. Holistic Philosophy: By understanding the intricate connections between the person, the dermis, the nervous system, and the musculoskeletal system, DNM gives you a holistic perspective that can lead to lasting results. 2. Effective Method: DNM revolves around the concept of gentle, intentional touch, helping you establish a deep connection with your clients and facilitating the body's natural healing mechanisms, ensuring that each treatment is uniquely designed for your client's needs. 3. Incorporate your already established Techniques: From myofascial release to neural mobilization, positional release, and sensory integration, DNM equips you with a robust philosophy of care that you can apply to your favourite techniques, allowing you to address a wide range of conditions and deliver exceptional outcomes that resonate with your clients. About Michael Reoch, RMT: You Instructor Leading this transformative course is none other than Michael Reoch, an RMT with extensive experience in DNM. Michael's passion for teaching and commitment to excellence have made him a trusted name in the industry. His expertise and dedication will ensure you receive the highest quality education and guidance throughout the course. Join Us in Kamloops, BC: Beautiful Surroundings for a Transformative Experience

Don't Miss Out - Secure Your Spot Today: Click the link below!

In the field of Manual Therapy, there are many techniques used to treat people in pain. These techniques involve pushing, pulling, and twisting skin and soft tissue. DNM uses techniques that change the state of the nervous system in the skin, spinal cord and brain to make it less painful and reactive.

Studies have demonstrated that touch has significant psychological and physiological impacts, with the nervous system regulating these effects. To effectively use Manual Therapy as a pain treatment, it's important to comprehend pain physiology through a social, biological, and psychological perspective. Research has indicated that establishing a non-threatening treatment environment for the patient is vital.

The skin is closely tied to the nervous system, which makes up around 2% of our body weight but uses 20% of our O2 and glucose at all times. Nerves do not respond well to sustained mechanical deformation, specifically compression and stretch. Dermoneuromodulating is a method that considers the nervous system of the patient to treat from "skin cell to sense of self." Techniques are usually light, and holds are slow.

DNM is a form of personalized manual care that targets nervous system signals to reduce discomfort and pain. This approach involves collaboration between therapist and patient to alleviate tenderness and improve well-being. Regardless of the damage in the affected area, DNM can effectively reduce pain.

The term DNM Stands for Dermo (skin), Neuro (nervous system) Modulation (a change from one state to another). It is a method of manual therapy/massage therapy used to change the state of the nervous system from a painful hyperactive state to a less painful and reactive one through receptors in the skin.

In Manual Therapy (MT), hundreds of techniques and methods attempt to approach treating people in pain. These maneuvers' speed, duration and force may differ, but the underlying mechanistic effects all follow the same rules. They can all agree that we push, pull and twist skin directly and soft tissue indirectly.

Lately, there has been considerable growth in research around the mechanisms of massage and other manual therapies, with a drift into the neuroscience involved in pain.

Two processes seem to be apparent when we look at the research: 

First, the effects of touch have strong psychological and physiological effects. 

The nervous system controls these effects. 

If we use Manual Therapy as a treatment for pain resolution, we should look at understanding pain physiology within a social, biological and psychological framework. 

What we know from studying the non-specific effects of physical medicine is that we should strive for a treatment environment that creates the least amount of threat to the person being treated; therefore, We should act, dress and keep the treatment space in a way that won’t put the patient on the defensive. 

We know that we touch the skin primarily in manual therapy and that the skin is intimately tied into the nervous system embryologically as both arrive from the ectoderm. 

We know that the Nervous System makes up around 2% of our body by weight but uses 20% of our O2 and Glucose at all times.

The nervous system carries impulses from the peripheral (and from within), which are processed in the spinal cord and Brain to create an output response. If the impulses are deemed dangerous enough, the output is pain. 

We know that pain is a complex process that depends on contextual, psychological and biological factors that mostly happen without our conscious perception and that pain can’t happen without a nervous system. 

The human body has 72 kilometres of nerves, intimately connected to the vascular system millimetre by millimetre.

Nerves do not respond well to sustained mechanical deformation, specifically, compression more than stretch.

Dermoneuromodulating is a method that attempts to take these facts as an underlying framework for an interactive, hands-on approach to treating the experience of pain. It considers the nervous system of the patient to treat from “skin cell to sense of self.” Techniques are usually light, and holds are slow. Limbs and trunk are positioned to affect deeper nerve structures in combination with skin stretch. This is done to potentially shorten and widen a nerve's container, thus reducing mechanical deformation of the nerve. 

DNM is a method of manual care that puts the patient and their needs first. Instead of operating a recipe treatment, the treatment is an interaction between the patient and the therapist. The therapist and patient work together to find the areas that need attention and remove the tenderness and pain felt in that area. The focus is on changing the signalling within the nervous system to decrease discomfort. Pain does not happen in the muscles and other tissue but in the nervous system itself; therefore, whether or not the area of pain is damaged, we can reduce that pain with DNM.

[hellsitegenetics]

okay so i'm looking for another project and i'm lacking some creative inspiration so here goes.... whatever organism BLAST says my ask is, i will try and make out of clay!!! hopefully no super thin parts or really tall but if that's what the BLAST gods deem appropriate, oh well.

ALSO i love this blog so much !!!! thank you for sparking joy on this hellsite <333333

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Closest match: Ocypus olens genome assembly, chromosome: 5 Common name: Devil's Coach Horse Beetle

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[chronicallyconflicted]

"Do you want to kill me?" Avasarala asked.

Bobbie blinked, and before she could answer Avasarala lifted her hand, commanding silence

"I am one of the most powerful people in the UN, we're at war so, do you want to kill me?"

"I—I guess so?"

"You don't. You want to find out who killed your men, and you want the politicians to stop greasing the wheels with marine blood. And, holy shit, what do you know, I want that too."

"But I am active duty Martian military" Bobbie said, "if I stay working for you I'm commiting treason." The way she said it wasn't complaint or accusation.

"They haven't recalled you" Avasarala said "and they're not going to.

The wartime diplomatic code of conduct is almost exactly the same for you as it is for us, and it's ten thousand pages of nine point type. If you get orders right now I can put up enough queries and request for clarification that you'll die of old age in that chair.

If you just want to kill someone for Mars you're not going to get a better target than me. If you want to stop this idiotic fucking war and find out who's actually behind it, get back to your desk and find out who wants what wording"

Bobbie was silent for a long moment. "You mean that as a rhetorical device," she said at last, "but it would make a certain amount of sense to kill you, and I can do it."

A tiny chill hit Avasarala's spine, but she didn't let it reach her face "I'll try not the oversell the point in the future, now get back to work"

[mindblowingscience]

A 50-year-old Swedish woman who lost her hand in a farming accident has been fitted with a cutting-edge prosthesis that has proved transformational. The bionic hand is based on revolutionary technology that connects directly to a user's bones, muscles, and nerves – creating a human-machine interface that allows AI to translate brain signals into precise yet simple movements. The woman who received the bionic hand, Karin (whose full name is undisclosed), now has a limited sense of touch and can move all five of her bionic fingers individually with a success rate of 95 percent. After two decades of living without a right hand, she can now carry out 80 percent of her usual daily activities, like preparing food, picking up objects, zipping and unzipping clothes or bags, and turning door knobs or screws. What's more, after receiving the prosthetic hand, Karin's excruciating phantom pain, which she said felt as though her hand was going through a meat grinder, decreased significantly.

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[chronic-melon]

Please please PLEASE

NEWS ARTICLES ARE NOT MEDICAL RESEARCH

MEDICAL JOURNALS ARE MEDICAL RESEARCH

IF IT’S NOT A STUDY, DON’T GIVE IT TO ME AS FACT

IF IT’S NOT A TRIAL GO AWAY

I swear the next time I ask someone to provide me with genuine medical information to support a claim and they give me a New York Times article, I’m gonna blow and not in a fun way

Edit: videos from a doctor on social media are ALSO ✨ not medical research ✨ they are usually selling something whether it be a podcast, book, course, or supplement

[whyamiherewhosummonedme]

Two questions: would you do it again (maybe with a mixer to make the taste better?) And are you ever tempted to consume other lab samples?

Yes I would do it again if I had the chance, yes I am always tempted to consume lab samples (I dissected a fetal pig in freshman year. I wanted nothing more than to rip out those organs and eat them. I indulged my need for violence by ripping apart the bones by hand.) And NO i would NOT use a mixer. That would VIOLATE THE SCIENCE. How the fuck am I supposed to accurately analyze how pure, concentrated disease tastes and if different viruses taste different if I intentionally introduce a confounding variable

[spindle-and-nima]

It has been utterly hectic today restocking and organizing my bunny meds and also creating an emergency car kit because im seeing too much roadkill lately. Before I forget I definitely have to get the emergency tools on hand because those poor babies are actually still alive more often than you think