Chronic Pain Management by John Edwards

Chronic Pain Management can be Tough - Try to Avoid the Painful Mistakes

Take what happens with many women after they give birth to a child. A second or third child. A few months after the event, some women begin to experience terrible unending pain in the back. They go in to a spinal specialist or an orthopedic doctor and an MRI usually finds that there is a disk in the spine that is deteriorating - a warning that there is osteoarthritis around the corner. The problem is, many of these women are in their 20s. They are in their 20s and are on chronic pain management with narcotics. Would you believe that there are 40 million Americans who actually seek treatment for long-term pain (something that lasts for several months)? That's like 15% of the population. And yet, doctors are not really aware of all the advances that have been made to help their patients with. For instance, most doctors still carry on in the belief that chronic pain isn't really a disease - that it just comes about for no good reason, and the best they can do is to treat it symptomatically. That's not how modern breakthroughs in pain science see things. Scientists now understand that pain usually does occur for a reason that can be treated. If a doctor will take the time to truly study everything that goes on with every patient. Still, there are a few mistakes that patients make in the way they handle chronic pain management too. Making sure that you avoid these, you can double your chances.

We have a healthcare system where everything has a different kind of specialist. We aren't ever quite sure what doctor to go to, and we often experiment, going from doctor to doctor. What this does is, it wastes time and money and we end up with repeated tests. A far better idea would be to skip the specialists altogether and to merely go straight to a general physician. If you can find a general physician who can take your pain seriously (and they often don't), you can get a proper treatment strategy together. Specialists have the limitation that they are narrowly focused on a certain kind of specialization. They don't take the big picture into account. If you can manage to get help with a general physician, you really shouldn't have to go to a real chronic pain management center where you bounce around from one specialist to the next.

Most people, when they are dealing with endless pain never think of taking up a bit of exercise. How could they, when they hurt so much. The truth is, that exercise does so much to relieve pain. It lubricates the joints and stretches and strengthens the muscles. Whatever it is that ails you, strengthening your body is likely to help you heal. Not to mention, exercise makes the body produce endorphins that help kill pain, and help with any inflammation. For some reason, chronic pain management to many people's minds sounds a lot like choosing to get surgery done right away. Somehow, surgery feels like they are cutting past all the humming and hawing and getting to the root of the problem. And they began to pester their doctor for surgery. In truth, unless the pain you are experiencing comes from something that is pressing on a nerve, surgery probably won't help. And of course, surgery comes with its baggage of pain too.

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