| More people call out sick from work because of | | | | antidepressants, and anticonvulsants, to address |
| chronic pain than call out sick because of the | | | | chronic pain. Chronic pain relief is also possible with |
| common cold. Chances are you or someone you | | | | physical therapy. Physical therapy corresponds to the |
| know suffers from chronic pain. Pain is a necessary | | | | low-impact exercises like swimming, walking, and |
| part of life. It alerts us when something is wrong | | | | stretching. If done regularly, these simple exercises |
| with our bodies. It's normal to experience pain with | | | | can help your body a lot. It can help lower the |
| an illness or injury. Normally, this pain fades as the | | | | intensity of the pain you're going through. |
| injury heals or the sickness goes away. This is | | | | However, these exercises are best performed along |
| referred to as acute pain. | | | | a trained physical therapist. Both occupational and |
| Pain becomes chronic when it continues after the | | | | behavioral therapies could also help. In occupational |
| healing time of the injury. This pain can hang on for | | | | therapy, patients are thought how to pace and |
| months or even years and often causes depression | | | | condition themselves when doing everyday tasks. |
| in its sufferers. Chronic pain can also occur as the | | | | Don't get discouraged if you are one of the chronic |
| result of an ongoing condition, like fibromyalgia, | | | | pain sufferers for which a cause cannot be found. An |
| arthritis, or cancer. Back injuries, carpal tunnel | | | | unknown source doesn't make the pain any less real. |
| syndrome, and migraine headaches are some other | | | | Fibromyalgia, for example, causes widespread pain in |
| examples of conditions that cause chronic pain. Some | | | | muscles and joints. |
| pain can result from injury to the nerves causing | | | | Yet, a person with fibromyalgia may not know the |
| them send false signals to the brain. How massage | | | | cause of the pain A healthcare provider may be able |
| affects your pain is partly dependent on its source. | | | | to link fibromyalgia to an injury or virus; but in other |
| If your pain is caused by a muscle injury massage | | | | cases, a specific cause may go unidentified. Irritable |
| can not only help ease the pain but also help speed | | | | bowel syndrome is another example of chronic pain |
| the healing process. Acute or chronic - these are the | | | | for which the specific cause may not be known. |
| two words that describe pain. Acute goes away | | | | Chronic pain may be related to changes in your nerve |
| easily and rarely lasts long. Chronic is its exact | | | | signals after a healed injury. Chronic pain may also be |
| opposite. Chronic pain can last for six months and is | | | | related to heightened pain sensitivity when your body |
| expected to recur at anytime. The main cause of it is | | | | produces lower than normal levels of painkilling |
| very hard to pinpoint. And it doesn't help if doctors | | | | endorphins. If you suffer from chronic pain do not |
| were more interested in addressing the pains rather | | | | ignore the warning signals. If you try to tough it out, |
| than knowing what is actually causing it. As such, | | | | the disease, illness, or injury may get worse. Left |
| chronic pain relief can be elusive to patients. | | | | untreated, chronic pain can also mentally wear you |
| But then again, there are certain medicines and | | | | down. Making massage therapy part of your |
| therapies that are deemed effective for chronic pain. | | | | treatment routine could help ease your pain and |
| There are also a lot of medicines sold | | | | lessen your dependence on pain killing drugs. In the |
| over-the-counter, which can truly help. While chronic | | | | long run this will lead to less drug side effects and |
| pain is a major problem, patients do have options to | | | | better health. |
| treat it. Doctors normally prescribe medicines, | | | | |