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Degenerative diseases don’t de-pathologise when you remove their pain
by robbiep 2y ago
Degenerative diseases don’t de-pathologise when you remove their pain
- nwienert 2y agoPathways that remove pain can be due to healing though, it's a mildly positive indicator.
- robbiep 2y agoThis is at best a fallacy with occasional exceptions and in this particular case, just plain incorrect. If it works by 'blocking a compound that supports nerve cells in transmitting pain' it isn't doing anything to correct the pathology. You are, in the truest sense of the way that people naively talk in derogatory terms around modern medicine, 'treating the result, not the cause'
- nwienert 2y agoIt's definitely not a fallacy that things that relieve pain can also help heal or prevent damage, NSAIDs are a great example. It mentions it may do more than just blocking the signal in the article.