Many people who cope with chronic pain know that going to work (if the pain is bearable) and keeping busy can help keep their minds off the pain and actually reduce it. At the same time, they know that staying home with nothing to do but think about the pain can make it worse.
Now, a new study has shown just how distraction reduces pain—and it’s not purely psychological. The study, published in the June issue of Current Biology, found that distraction causes a physiological cascade of events that work not just on the brain but on the spinal cord.
via foxnews.com