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Chronic pain is a distressing experience and can be difficult to ignore and get on with “life as normal.” This article will look at the steps that you can take in your day-to-day life to manage your chronic pain.
What are some ways to help break that chronic pain cycle?
If your pain has overstayed its welcome, you should know that you have more treatment options today than ever before.
Pain is your body's way of telling you that something is wrong. But pain that lasts for weeks, months, or years is not typical.
Back pain is common and often starts for no obvious reason. The spine is strong and back problems are rarely due to any serious disease or damage.
Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Let it out slowly. Feel better?
It is common to feel sad or discouraged after a heart attack, a cancer diagnosis, or if you are trying to manage a chronic condition like pain. You may be facing new limits on what you can do and feel anxious about treatment outcomes and the future
The pain is excruciating. Piercing. Throbbing. Persistent. And that’s just the physical part of it. Your emotions are just as intense.
What is Chronic Pain and How it Affects Us
Techniques to Help with Chronic Pain
Connection between Chronic Pain and Mental Health
Between health concerns, financial strain and social distancing, we are all under stress with the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Disruption to routine of any kinds makes it harder to stick to healthy habits, and all the more so in the case of the coronavirus outbreak.
The best way to deal with back pain is to stay active and continue doing regular exercise.
Chronic Pain: A Persistent Challenge
A good technique to relax your entire body is to alternately tense and relax each of the major muscle groups in your body, as you breathe deeply and fully.
Despite the fact that each of us may experience tension slightly differently, anyone can learn to release that tension. All it takes is knowing how to relax, practicing relaxation techniques, and choosing a technique that works best for you.
Use this meditation to work with difficult emotions, such as fear or body sensations, such as pain.
Advice & tips on how to move with musculoskeletal pain to help you do the everyday things that are important to you.
Muscle guarding is your body’s first response when the pain cycle is activated.
When a headache strikes you can do more than just crawl into bed and wait for it to go away
This phenomenon is called psychogenic pain, and it occurs when your pain is related to underlying psychological, emotional, or behavioral factors.
Prevention, psychological, physical. pharmaceutical
Everything we experience in life passes through one filter - our mind.
Never tried a massage? You may be missing out on more benefits than you realized.
There is no single cure for chronic pain. It takes a team approach and involves medical management, movement therapy and learning specific coping strategies.
Improve your parasympathetic tone and help your body deal with stress better.
Whatever the cause of your chronic pain, know that there are solutions
