This week I will discuss the interplay between the sensory nervous system and hyaluronon. Understanding this relationship will guide us to behaviours that enhance hydration and lubrication between tissues. This will allow us to avoid flair-ups of the sensory nerves, and thus navigate pain more successfully. Motion is lotion.

People are increasingly unhappy with their status quo. They remember being more comfortable in their bodies and wonder what has changed. The guilty party seems to be time. But how exactly has the passage of time managed to compromise our feeling of youth, resilience, health and wellbeing?

The typical response is, aging, I am getting old. Yes, but age is just the passage of time. It is our behaviour during the passage of time, which ultimately determines who we have become and what we are feeling today.

The question becomes how can we modify both our environment and our behaviour to change the quality of the mechanical input acting upon us so that we move away from the path of deterioration and we move towards the path of restoration.

The goal of this Pain Paradox series is to provide you with the latest information in pain science and care. This will allow you to make informed decisions about your pain, decisions will that empower you to transform your pain care journey, positively and sustainably.

To understand this we must consider the sensory nervous system which is responsible for wide range of physical sensations, heat, cold, vibration, pressure, the position of the limbs, and pain, etc. These sensory receptors live in the sliding layers between the fascial pockets of the muscles. If you are using your body in suboptimal ways the sensory nerves when compromised really only know how to call 911, which is pain. They are trying to protect your body to allow you to heal.

As a result, we begin to use those areas of our bodies less and less often.

Hyaluronic acid or hyaluronan – for good or for evil

There is another important player we need to consider called hyaluronic acid or hyaluronan, which is the simplest glycosaminoglycan (a class of polysaccharides) and a major constituent of the extracellular matrix (ECM).

Hyaluronan provides compression strength, and has a lubrication and hydration role in muscular connective tissues to enhance the sliding between adjacent tissue layers.

Between the muscular layers reside both the hyaluronan, and the sensory nerves, which normally slide nicely together but which may suddenly get stuck and stop sliding so well. The lack of movement is caused by the hyaluronan becoming thicker or more viscous.

The less you use your body and the more it becomes immobilized, the thicker and more viscous the hyaluronan becomes. This compromises the slide and glide of the nerves, and those nerves only know how to generate pain signals. As a consequence, to avoid feeling pain, you use your body even less, which increases the downward spiral of more viscosity, more pain, and less movement. So this is where the pain comes from.

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