How to do Pain Management?

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Pain can be your mental as well as physical pains. Pain relief medication may cause side effects in some people. The herbal remedies can also be used for pain management. 

What your physical pain is: Pain is an unpleasant sensation, triggered due to some sort of tissue damage. You feel painful when a signal of damage is being transmitted through the nerve fibers to the brain for interpretation. Sometimes, pain can be just a nuisance like an unexpected headache. There are different types of pain for sure. When you have pain due to some tissue damge, it's called Nociceptive pain. You have Inflammatory pain when an inappropriate response in your immune system triggers an abnormal inflammation. Neuropathic pain is caused by some nerve irritation and you feel Functional pain when something causes some disturbance in the way, your body functions. 

Role of your brain in your pain: Your brain constructs your pain according to the way your body feels. The brain can perpetuate the chronic pain. Pain is the way your brain tries to act on a potentially harmful situation, demanding your full attention to the situation. In other words, the brain will not produce any pain if it believes that there's no need for pain. A Neurotag is a network of neurons in the brain and different Neurotags share the same brain cells. And the activation of one Neurotag is enough to trigger the activation of another. Pain emerges when one Neurotag is activated. The level of pain can get worse at night because you become more aware about your surroundings at night, with more concentration, imposed on pain, plus the level of anti-inflammatory hormone Cortisol is comparatively lower at night in your body. 

How to manage your physical pain: If you have some joint pain, regular exercise is the natural solution as it can strengthen your muscles and it also produces Endorphins which are the pain relievers. Maintain a fiber rich diet as it can strengthen the beneficial bacteria inside the gut, which can release hormones that lower the levels of pain. Apply heat or cold therapy. You're supposed to apply ice for injuries causing inflammation and swelling. When you use a cold compress or ice pack, what happens is that it constricts blood vessels, reducing blood circulation, which in fact reduces inflammation and swelling in the area, numbing pain. Use heat pads or warm baths for musle related pain or stiffness which can boost your blood circulation in such a way that more oxigen and nutrients reach the painful area, resulting in the repair of damaged muscle and relieving inflammation or stiffness. Another important technique is divert your attention from pain as much as possible. Use music or listen to your favorite, uplifting song. Keep yourself engaged in watching or speaking to someone. Another powerful way is practice meditation simply for 5 to 10 minutes either standing or lying. Lucid dreaming can also be used for the same purpose. Do that intermittently as many times as possible. Have the inner visualization that your muscle damage or injury has already been healed and your pain is gone. Your thought with emotion can definitely influence matter. It gives you a soothing sensation of peace; moreover it's your best possible self healing technique in practice. You can also practice diversion of concentration, especially when you undergo physical pain. This is the technique by which you shift your concentration on pain somewhere else willingly. Your attention can be shifted to your favorite person, talking to them for a while or to a favourite TV program, place, or even a favourite piece of food item. When your concentration is shifted out of pain, even though you undergo the same level of pain, you don't feel it with the same intensity as your brain is focused more on something else. And if you enjoy what you are focused on, happy hormones like Dopamine and Oxytocin are triggered, which can literally reduce the amount of pain you have. 

What your mental pain is: It's your psychological or emotional pain of non physical origin and your mental pain is caused by some psychiatric disorder or a severe emotional trauma or loss of someone or something. Your mental pain can cause grief, depression, deep sorrow or sadness. Your mental pain also triggers the loss of sleep and anxiety. Your mental pain can easily worsen your physical pain. It appears that mental pain is so powerful that it can easily put you in emotional distress which may trigger physical pain or disturbance like headache, muscle pain, stomach ache, nausea, dizziness or diarrhea. The limbic system in the brain can be made responsible for your mental pain. Your mental pain may make you more aggressive or angry and you are likely to get easily addicted to alcohol or drug abuse. The mental pain can also trigger self harming tendencies including suicidal ideation. 

How to manage your mental pain: Social support is the best possible means through which you can reduce your mental pain. Share your pain inside with someone you are so close to or with your close friends or family members. The more you share, the more of your pain gets deflated through consolation. And you feel that you're loved and guided as well. This is how you get the emotional support, needed. Regularize your exercise or go walking either in the morning or after noon. Exercise, without your knowledge, can lift up your mood. The chemicals called Endorphins are released when you exercise and they can lift your spirits. Start your day with a 5 to 10 minute meditation where you have the reaffirmation that your mental pain has already been obliterated. Have the inner visualization about the same. You can also use lucid dreaming for the same purpose. Know the fact that you don't own anything here to be lost and nothing is lost on the quantum level either. When you give extra focus on your circumstances, your normal mood changes to the stressful or sad mood. When you keep focusing on the stressful mood, it eventually becomes your mental or emotional pain. You have to focus on yourself rather than on the circumstances in life and never get ready to be engulfed by emotions. Another important technique, you can use is music. Use some uplifting music to shift your mood. Listen to inspiring speeches or watch motivating films or documentaries. The recent research concludes that you are so powerful that you can even change your genetic code with your thoughts, let alone your mental pain! Your thought is what makes you who you are and your thought can definitely influence matter. You are here to enjoy every single moment of your life... 

 

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