Pain Management: Practical Ways to Reduce Chronic Pain

Today about 1.5 billion people around the world are suffering from some sorts of chronic pain (CP). It’s about one in five!

A matter of hope and relief, on the other hand, people are getting more and more conscious about their personal health, especially because of the availability of the internet. An estimated 7 percent of the total daily google-search is related to health. Along with the increasing interest and consciousness of people, doctors and health advisors have come forward providing so many precise, natural, and practical tips and suggestions.

This article involves some practical pain (especially, chronic pain) management tips that have been proved to be risk-free over the years.

Chronic Pain— A General Point of View

Most people get rid of their pain following an injury or operation within at best 12 weeks. Some people don’t, even after regular and systematic medication. They are considered to have chronic pain. Sometimes, without any certain history of injury or operation, pains come on. These are also chronic pains.

There are a number of types of chronic pains:

• headache
• Pain after a trauma
• Pain after a surgery
• Pain from a certain type of cancer
• Pain at the lower back
• Pain from arthritis
• Pain caused by some sort of damage to the nerve
• Psychogenic pain

Treating Pain in a Wrong Way— A Specialist’s Review

Most of the prescriptions for pains, both acute and chronic, include medicines related to a certain type of narcotic called opioid. Opioids are a class of drugs related to morphine, heroin, and opium. They work really well in alleviating pains. And this has created what Dr. Donald De Fabio, a dual board-certified chiropractic orthopedist, and a natural healthcare provider, called an opioid crisis. “In fact, from 1999 to 2015 there have been half a million deaths related to opioids type drugs.”, he added. And a major reason for it is that doctors seemed to have been instructed to treat pain like vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature.

The natural way for the body to heal most of the pains, both acute and chronic is to eat right, sleep right, take nutritional supplements, and exercise.

Managing Your Chronic Pain

There are a number of ways you can manage, i.e., alleviate and drive away pains. And most of them don’t involve drugs and medication at all! In fact, you can, very well, reduce your chronic pain simply without any medicine.

Try these:

External Applications

Some sorts of ointment and oils like CBD oil for pain work very well against persistent and disturbing pains.

Meditation

This is an excellent way of reducing your pain. When first introduced publicly about 70 years back it was laughed away. But things changed when the power of meditation started to manifest and more and more people became interested in meditation.

In this process, you awaken your subconscious mind which has been proved to contain enormous healing power. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have tried this method and have readily benefitted.

The interesting part of this method is that you systematically focus on the part that pains rather than frantically trying to distract your mind from the pain. And you heal your pain yourself, using your own time and pace.

Acupuncture

Invented and applied in China about 4500 years ago, this method of treatment involves inserting needles in some specific parts (today generally known as never centers) of your body. The puncture-points are considered to be the lines of energy (meridians). This method is reported to heal a number of physical and mental problems.

To manage chronic pains, acupuncture is quite popular. Though there have been some reports of ‘no good’, the average success rate suggests that it is as safe as beneficial.

There is another similar method called acupressure which does not use needles but tips of our hands to apply a certain amount of pressure from a certain angle for a certain period of time on the same lines of energy as acupuncture uses. Apart from messaging which also relieves pains temporarily, acupressure is gaining more credits and praises every day and is considered an alternative to acupuncture.

Cheerful and Optimistic

This is the part that your mind plays to manage pains. This is, in fact, a general and nonsystematic form of meditation.

You can select a number of elements that make you cheerful like listening to music, reading books of your interest, and enjoying a pleasure trip with your family members and friends.

Ensuring that your cheer is not short-living and you don’t recede back to despair easily is another part of keeping cheerful. Here comes another point: being optimistic and staying motivated. You need to try on and on and have to believe that you can do it.

Why Not Homeopathy?

Hundreds of thousands of patients are taking homeopathic medicines and living a normal life. So the reality is completely in support of the Homeopathic approach.

The central idea of the homeopathic approach is ‘like is cured by like.’ which means any drug that produces certain symptoms in healthy individuals will relieve similar symptoms when the drug is potentialized. Let’s not focus on the term and process of potentialization because it is part of the homeopathic lesson. What we need to know, in our context, is that any type of pain, acute or chronic, can be entirely cured with certainty. The only important and necessary requirement from the patient is that they have to tell a homeopath the exact and detailed symptoms of their problem because treating the symptoms and not the disease is the homeopathic approach.

Other Forms of Healing

There are so many other forms of healing that you can study and try. In the present age of the internet and information technology, none of the health related activities is in the dark.

There is a ‘whole-body vibration’ process, for example, which is an excellent indoor healing process.

Then there is physical exercise, which mends the tissues, bones, and other organs of your body that have any sort of anomaly causing temporary or intermittent pain.

Finally, if you’ve got chronic pain in your back, going to a chiropractor or changing to a healthier posture can help. Indeed, there are many ways to relieve back pain in addition to just those two.

Final Words

Don’t worry. Whatever I have discussed so far should be enough but not complete. If you keep on searching and studying you can find other ways that might be more suitable for you. But, I give you words there is no chance that your obstinate and stubborn pain can persist.