Do you have persistent headaches or migraines? Do you experience recurring neck or back pain? Perhaps you also have a sensitive gut. These issues may not be separate problems. At Peek Practice, we focus on understanding what connects them and what that means for their management. Not All Pain Comes From Damage Many people assume that pain indicates something is broken, worn down, or part of a disease process. For some patients, this is true — a compressed nerve, a torn struct

Nigel Peek, MSc Chiro (SA) | DIANM, Chiropractic Orthopaedist | PGDip HealSc Pain & Pain Management – Dist. (Otago) — Peek Practice, Grey Lynn, Auckland Pain is not a signal that travels from damaged tissue to a passive brain. That model — intuitive, persistent, and wrong — has been substantially revised over the last three decades. Understanding what replaced it changes how pain is assessed, explained, and treated. This is not a fringe position. It is the consensus view of c

The Short Answer Contemporary pain neuroscience tells us that pain is the brain's protective output — not a direct readout of tissue damage. The two are related, but they are not the same thing. You can have severe structural damage with no pain. Conversely, you can experience severe, disabling pain with no identifiable structural cause. In 2020, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) formally revised its definition to reflect this, acknowledging pain as