Types and Treatment of Chronic Pain:
Chronic Pain is commonly considered to signify disease itself. It can be made much more intense by ecological and emotional factors. It continues over a many years than serious discomfort and is immune to most medications. It causes serious problems for sufferers. A person may have two or more co-existing chronic pain conditions.
Types of Pain:
There are two types of pain:
Acute pain doesn’t last long and usually goes away as your body heals. Chronic pain lasts at least 6 months after your body has healed. Sometimes, people who have chronic pain don’t know what is causing it. Along with discomfort, chronic pain can cause low self-esteem, depression and anger. It can also interfere with your daily activities.
Treatment of Chronic pain:
Treatment of chronic pain usually involves medicines and therapy. Medicines used for chronic pain include pain relievers, antidepressants and anticonvulsants. Different types of medicines help people who have different types of pain. You usually use long-acting medicines for constant pain. Short-acting medicines treat pain that comes and goes.
Many other treatments can also relieve pain. They can actually change the body’s chemicals that produce pain. Almost anything we do to relax or get our minds off our problems may help control pain. It’s important to add relaxing activities to your daily life, even if you are already taking medicine for pain. You might have to use stress reduction methods for several weeks before you notice a decrease in pain.
- Several types of therapy can help ease your pain. Physical therapy (such as stretching and strengthening activities) and low-impact exercise (such as walking, swimming or biking) can help reduce the pain.
- However, exercising too much or not at all can hurt chronic pain patients. Occupational therapy teaches you how to pace yourself and how to do ordinary tasks differently so you won’t hurt yourself.
- Behavioral therapy can reduce your pain through methods (such as meditation and yoga) that help you relax.
- It can also help decrease stress.
- Lifestyle changes are an important part of treatment for chronic pain.
- Getting regular sleep at night and not taking daytime naps should help.
- Stopping smoking helps, also, because the nicotine in cigarettes can make some medicines less effective.
- Smokers also tend to have more pain than non-smokers.
- Most pain treatments will not take away all of your pain.
- Instead, treatment should reduce how much pain you have and how often it occurs.
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