I caught this programme by chance but what a great programme it was.
A fascinating brief history of ‘man’ trying to understand pain and how to treat it.
The BBC website describes this first episode:
Pain has a profound effect on our bodies – when we are experiencing it, millions of nerve cells deep within our brains are firing, telling us ‘it hurts’ – and for centuries the challenge has been to find something that will lessen or even switch off these sensations to bring us relief. Dr Michael Mosley discovers just what pain is, why we want to control it and how we ultimately did it when the discovery of morphine, the world’s first pharmaceutical, at the beginning of the 19th century led to a 200-year journey of scientific breakthrough, discovery and self-experimentation.
When pain is part of your everyday life, like an unwanted tenant, squatting in your joints – it’s a subject matter I can’t help but tune into, in the hope the programme will contain the ‘key’ to me understanding it and perhaps how to be rid of it!
Sadly, once again there’s no ‘key’ to relief from AS, but you’ll learn a thing or two for sure.
Please go and watch it before it goes offline
http://bbc.in/1BrQquw