To eliminate or lessen the pain is you have to accept the chronic nature and the emotional struggle that associated with it. when the patients is catastrophizing their pain, they can’t ease the situation to alleviate the pain. Accepting the reality of pain can gratitude and help them move forward by taking away from the loss.
This pain is meant to be the stimulator of the body that brings into action and prevent to further danger. Naturally, the reaction of most patients is a state of physiological arousal that when continuously going, it resulted to damage.
Learning the relaxation technique is one way to combat the pain and the stress to gain self-management. You can select from several techniques that includes progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, mindfulness and guided imagery and a lot more that fits you.
Importantly, when the pain seem to mellow down, don’t go overdose involving in the learning activity pace. Most of the patients are tempt to make up the lost time in the activities they have missed that resulted to more suffering in the coming days.
The essential part to some patients is time management, going to bed early can missed out quality bonding time with the family. Pain psychologist will be recommending to save the patient’s energy during the day so that they are fully physically and emotionally present at home. The importance of physical activity for the patients when living with chronic pain cannot be overstated, thus connection with the spouse and their children in the evening is very important. Setting a quality time in the most important for a good time.
One of the best method to manage chronic pain is a gentle exercise and should be a central part of your treatment plan. Gentle exercise can keep stiff joints lubricated and makes muscle strong, and good for mental health and helps avoid excessive weights. It is more important to talk to your doctor or a physical therapist about the best exercise to suits you and your condition. To some patients they choose the option of swimming, walking, strength training, pilates and beginners yoga. Some physician will not advise their patients not to do an exercise when it hurt them but there’s also some that requires their patients to take a walk everyday on a regular basis. The best exercise that fits to almost all patients is the chair yoga.
In today’s busy world, we rarely take time to an intention to relax, relaxation is good for our body especially if we too busy throughout the day.