cHRonic Pain

sharon white

Founder of Global Healing Exchange and Holistic Living Magazine

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cHRonic Pain

In this day and age so many people are suffering from chronic pain. Pain is your body’s mechanism to tell you something is wrong or not working. It is your body’s normal reaction to an injury or illness.

We have all felt pain from time to time and know that the pain goes away. Acute pain is a normal sensation that alerts us to possible injury or illness. When the core issue starts to heal, the pain starts to subside.

Chronic pain is different. Your body can hurt for weeks, months or even years. It is commonly known that chronic pain is often defined as any pain lasting more than 12 weeks, often for months or even longer.

When you hurt for a prolonged period it affects you emotionally as well as physically. It can cause many issues, it can affect your mood and can lead to depression, trouble sleeping and stress. In this magazine we want to give you strategies to manage your pain both on a physical and emotional level.

What Is Chronic Pain?

Pain comes from messages from your body through your nervous system. When you injure yourself the pain sensors in that area switch on, they send a message to your brain through your nervous system. Once your brain gets this signal it tells you that you are in pain. What happens then is your body starts to heal the area that is in pain and the pain starts to subside.

With chronic pain the nerves keep firing long after you have healed. Chronic pain can occur in a variety of locations in the body and for many different reasons, patients and their health care practitioners need to work together to identify the causes and symptoms of that pain and how it can be managed.

When you have chronic pain it is known as a disorder called Chronic Pain Syndrome (CPS). This condition occurs in a wide range of other conditions such as;

• Arthritis • Migraines • Fibromyalgia • Inflammatory Bowel Disease • Endometriosis • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome • Nerve damage • Back Problems • Past Injuries or Surgeries

Symptoms

Chronic pain is different in every single person. It can be a constant pain that is there daily or it can come and go. There are varying ways that the pain can show up in your body, such as;

• Shooting • Throbbing • Squeezing • Burning • Stinging • Soreness • A dull ache • Stiffness

The goal when treating chronic pain is to reduce pain and improve function, so the person can resume day-to-day activities. There are many options for you to look at in order for you to make an effective treatment plan.

It is important to know that sometimes chronic pain can’t be cured, but it can be managed. Our experts in this magazine will give you many options to manage your pain.

Enjoy.

Founder of Holistic Living Magazine