PAIN AND SLEEP

People who suffer from chronic pain know first hand how difficult it can be to get a good night's sleep. According to the Naonal Sleep Foundaon's 2015 Sleep in America poll, one in five Americans suffer from chronic pain. A majority of these individuals report substandard sleep quality, and one in four people with chronic pain also have a sleep disorder. Many people report their painful symptoms are somewhat alleviated aer a beer night's sleep. For those living with chronic pain, priorizing sleep may be a key component in the path to recovery.

Chronic pain can affect sleep differently and depends on the nature of the pain.

Some condions may flare up at night or be provoked by certain sleeping posions. Others may cause persistent pain that does not ease at night in addion to shorter overall sleep me, chronic pain can also cause frequent night me wakings. In fact, this appears to be the most common sleep complaint in people with chronic pain. As we sleep, we cycle through light sleep, slow-wave sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In order to feel well-rested we need a balance of all these sleep stages, especially slow-wave sleep and REM sleep. Disrupng this cycle interferes with the progression of the sleep stages, and leads to less resul sleep and next-day redness, causing low moods, depression and anxiety.

The essenal thing to understand is that pain is a mental process. Once we grasp this we can take the steps to using our mental powers to deal with the problem.

If you have had pain for three months or more, then it is classified as chronic pain, aer three to six months the body has usually healed as well as can be expected, however if you are sll in pain the answer lies in the nervous system. The ongoing pain that is sll being produced is less about the injuries within the body more about the sensivity of the nervous system. Chronic pain is triggered when the nerves carrying unpleasant informaon become irritated and connue to react even when the issue which caused the pain has healed, its as if the pain system stays switched on.

There are things you can do to tackle chronic pain we can learn how we can affect our pain system ourselves, by what we do, think and learning to relax, hypnotherapy is a great way to relax, de stress and release anxiety.

Along with hypnotherapy try these ps to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.

1. Set a me for going to bed and geng up in the morning 7 days a week

2. Avoid naps especially in the evening, if you really cant avoid an aernoon sleep limit yourself to half an hour only.

3. Exercise but not too close to bedme this may increase alertness.

4. Take a hot bath about an hour and half before bedme but beware of taking a bath to close to bedme as this increases alertness.

5. Don't have a large meal before bedme, however a light snack or a relaxing herbal tea can help sleep.

Kim Holloway

www.total-therapy.co.uk

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