Nociplastic pain is brain-generated pain that occurs in the absence of tissue damage or injury or is not explained by a medical diagnosis. It is a type of chronic pain that is caused by changes in the nervous system when your brain mistakes safe nerve signals from the body as dangerous, generating pain. It’s a habitual mistake the brain can develop over time leading to chronic pain.

There are a number of signs that could indicate your pain is neuroplastic such as; pain that starts without an injury or medical diagnosis; persistent pain once an injury has healed; pain during a stressful time or event; frequent changes to location or intensity and multiple pain areas and symptoms being triggered by the environment.

Though the pain can be addressed psychologically, this does not imply that the pain is imaginary. Recent research has shown that pain is often the result of learned neural pathways in the brain.