Dr. Rachel Zoffness

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Hidden Brain · How to Combat Pain · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

When you have pain, you go looking for damage.

When you have damage, you assume necessarily that you should have pain.

But pain or hurt and damage or harm are not the same thing.

Hurt and harm are not the same.

It is so baffling, and here's the answer.

It's only baffling until we really understand the true science of pain, and then it makes perfect sense.

Here's what happened.

We've established that pain is the body's danger alarm, and we've established that the brain is our body's danger detector.

So his brain, similar to the first construction worker's,

His brain also used all available data to decide whether or not to make pain and how much.

So his brain also used knowledge of his dangerous work environment, memories of past pain experiences, and visual data.

But because he saw that nail shoot across the room and bury in the wall across from him,

His brain was under the mistaken impression that the construction worker's body was safe.

Credible evidence of danger will amplify the pain alarm.

Credible evidence of safety will lower the pain alarm.

So because his brain perceived that he was safe, the pain alarm did not sound.

You got it.

So it's very easy to believe that pain lives exclusively in the body part that hurts, right?

So if you have a bad back or you have an aching knee, it's easy to believe that that pain is being constructed exclusively by your back or your knee.

But neuroscience tells us that is not true.

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