These fibres also work to process the pain signals. Pain signals use the spinal cord and specialised nerve fibres to travel to our brain. ![]() It can have a strong negative effect on our family and friends too. Over time, it may affect what we can do, our ability to work, our sleep patterns. The messages from the warning system linked to long-term conditions like arthritis or back pain are not needed - just annoying. Persistent pain often serves no useful purpose. For example the pain of a broken leg will make us rest the leg until it heals. Most minor ones are easy to treat others may be a sign of something more serious. Many acute pains are like an alarm telling us something is wrong.
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