When a physical or mechanical injury to the body get repeated over and over – there is an element of mental issues. These can be understood together
What is a mind-body injury ?
Exploring pain – the experience and causes – leads many to consider a psychological explanation and a physiological (or neural) pathway of pain (that is, from injury to brain). When watching my yoga students learn yoga – “ordinary” bodies or bodies “in pain” – it is clear, some habits are more embedded in the mind/body than others. And some of these habits can be injurious – need to be unlearned or released – one could also say, retrained and refined.
Pain can be very blunt – gross – as well as a full spectrum from dull to sharp. But the energy work of yoga is increasingly subtle as you refine a practice
And all of the words buddhist “psychology” – attributes of the habits of clinging or aversion, mental patterns that become habits of actions – neuromuscular – hormonal-chemical – “states” (such as the state of fight-or-flight) – and all of these have neural pathways in the brain which, when practiced, fire-together and wire-together.
This process – easy to “schematize” here – is mostly “self-correcting” towards balance and stability or functionality. But time when the cycle turns destructive – injurious – or hardens pain into the body.