What causes pain?

Pain is due to severe isometric relaxation of skeletal muscles. This is proved by many facts.

1. We don't feel pain where there are no skeletal muscleslike the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic cavities and with in the skull.

2. Even when there is a problem in the internal organs the pain is felt in the skeletal muscles only. Thus abnormally severe contraction of intestine during dysentery results in pain in the muscles around the navel. The excruciating pain of heart attack is felt in the middle of the chest, even though the heart is in the left side.

3. In severe paralysis of limbs there would be excruciation pain in these, which is promptly relieved if the tone is reset to the normal 50% level.

4. Pain abolishes movements because the low skeletal muscle tone associated with it will not be sufficient to execute a movement.

5. Any pain can be relieved by increasing the tone of skeletal muscles in the area.

6. We can tolerate pain. We do this by increasing the tone of the skeletal muscles there. We can train ourselves to tolerate more and more pains.

These facts prove that pain is due to abnormally severe isometric relaxation of skeletal muscles.

Ache is due to abnormally severe isometric contraction of skeletal muscles.