What are the Causes of Referred Pain?
It is still not known precisely what connections in the human body cause referred pain, but there are a few theories that explain quite plausibly what may cause this kind of bizarre phenomenon. Basically, referred pain occurs due to the nerve fibers in areas that have high levels of sensory input, like the skin, and the nerve fibers from areas that usually have low levels of sensory input, like internal organs, happen to come together in the same area of the spinal cord. Therefore, during my fathers heart attack, the nerves from the damaged tissue of his heart were conveying signals to T1-T4 levels of his spinal cord, on the left side, which also are the levels which perceive sensation from a portion of the left arm as well as the left side of the chest. Since the brain is unused to getting such strong pain signals from the heart, it deciphers that the pain is coming from the left arm, or in the chest. How to deal with Referred Pain One of the best ways of dealing with referred pain is
