These conditions are often linked to the nervous system's misinterpretation of sensory inputs. Instead of reacting appropriately, the body overreacts, creating symptoms of discomfort and illness. This misinterpretation can become ingrained through a feedback loop of fear and heightened sensitivity.

Anxiety is a fundamental part of neuroplastic pain. It is the nervous system informing us that something is not safe. The nervous system always communicates in a language of sensation; heaviness in the stomach, tingles up the spine, prickling on the back of the neck etc. Sometimes the nervous system perceives a threat that is not there, causing these sensations to give us a ‘false alarm’. 

It is not just external threats that the nervous system warns us of, pain is the alarm for bodily damage. Sometimes the nervous system gives us a ‘false alarm’ here too, which is neuroplastic pain. Neuroplastic means ‘learned by the nervous system’.

When neuroplastic pain becomes chronic, the nervous system becomes hyper-alert to perceived threats, creating a feedback loop of anxious thoughts and physical symptoms.