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> Some benzos have muscle relaxant properties but I've never heard of them prescribed for pain. Back pain is thought to be mostly psychological, so it makes se
by Alex3917 7y ago
> Some benzos have muscle relaxant properties but I've never heard of them prescribed for pain.
Back pain is thought to be mostly psychological, so it makes sense. Also, if you have minor tears or congenital defects in tissue around your spinal cord then anxiety can cause inflammation, which can then cause your spinal fluid to push against your actual spinal cord and cause all sorts of problems. (Or something like this, I'm not a doctor but that's the basic idea.)
- misterman0 7y ago>> Back pain is thought to be mostly psychological Do you have a credibility source to back that up?
- Cougher 7y agoI'm very skeptical of this. A common claim that's long been floated around the medical community, most recently in the "evidence-based" medical community, is that if there isn't a hard test for a condition, then it's psychosomatic. It's an arrogant and abusive conclusion that's also ironic: we don't have a diagnostic test to prove it, so the cause is something that also doesn't have a diagnostic test.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIt does sound a bit like archaeology and ascribing religious purpose to any structure or artifact we cannot identify as something else.
- TremendousJudge 7y agoYou can also call it "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions"[0] -- if the matter seems a mystery, well, then the answer surely must be a mystery as well! I cannot be something simple and comprehensible [0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6i3zToomS86oj9bS6/mysterious-answers-to-mysterious-questions https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6i3zToomS86oj9bS6/mysterious...