Despite feeling strong enough to withstand the pain, you should never underestimate the back pain. If left untreated, the disorder of joints in the spine can affect cognitive function of the brain that become senile faster.
According to research by experts from McGill University in Montreal, back pain causes thinning of the brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. This section serves to receive and interpret pain stimuli are transmitted by the nervous system to the brain.
Depletion of the piece is known to cause disturbances in other parts of the brain. The impact among other things makes a person difficult to maintain concentration, difficulty making decisions and does not lose some cognitive function and logic.
Fortunately, these effects are not permanent and will recover when the back pain has been overcome for example by the operation. Part dorsolateral prefrontal cortex will come back thicker, while cognitive function will return as the initial conditions.
"Thickening in some parts of the brain after back pain resolved very surprising. Every patient that pain was reduced to experience the effects of this kind," said the researcher, Laura S Stone, PhD, as quoted by WebMD.
Laura proves it after observing 18 patients who had experienced back pain at least in the last year. When examined, the patient is planning a healing therapy, among others, through surgery and injections.
Before therapy, patients were asked to undergo a brain scan with magnetic resonance imaging technology (MRI). The scan done again a year after successful therapy, and compared with brain scans on 16 healthy patients with no history of back pain
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