Through Pain Relief Institute of America; Interview with Dr. Victor Taylor
“Pain is more terrible than death itself.” Fortunately, this quote by Albert Swietzer is not a fact that most of us have to deal with every day. But for some people, pain becomes a permanent part of their lives.
Everyone has experienced pain. By the time we are old, we can remember that we have multiple falls, pinchs, scrapes and jingles. By the time we are adults, most people have already sprained ankle, fractured or need a stitch cut.
As life develops, people cope with the pain of childbirth or surgery or other major trauma. Outside of a particular genetic disease, everyone on Earth knows what pain is.
Pain is harmful; we don’t like it, it makes us respond in a way that eliminates the source of pain. Neurological pain is linked to the emotional processing center of the brain. We are built to cope with pain and avoid what we learn can cause pain. Pain tells us that our bodies are being damaged. It has a purpose of survival.
For most people, the pain we experience is relatively short-lived. It will get better in a few hours to months. We overcome it and continue to live.
However, for many people, the pain becomes chronic.
Think for a minute – imagine the pain you encounter, now imagine it lasts, just stay there every minute of every day and never relax. After 3 months – the threshold of call condition chronic – the pain remains, then 4 months, 5 months, and then months turn into years.
What are the common causes of chronic pain?
Most patients who experience chronic pain start with a small-looking back, neck, or other problems related to the body’s muscles and joints. The musculoskeletal system accounts for 90% of the pain we see in clinics. Back pain, neck pain, arms, legs, knees, knees, ribs, etc. constitute most chronic pain problems.
Other complaints are directly related to the nervous system, including headaches, sciatica and other radiation nerve pain in the arms, legs, or trunk (ribs and abdomen). Neuronal syndrome, neurological syndrome and hyperactivity of nerves under complex religious pain syndrome, tic del a roux or fibromyalgia.
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The effects of chronic pain
Recall the limitations of acute or transient pain. Chronic pain can have a life-changing effect on people. Being in pain may prevent a person from doing extra things. Maybe skip exercise or slow down. Over time, chronic pain can eliminate the enjoyment of every activity from work to home life. Patients told us that they could not play with children or grandchildren, garden, golf or help around the house.
What is always painful is frustrating, interfering with relationships, and can make people angry or withdraw. It affects every aspect of life. Even sleeping or going to the bathroom can become heavy.
Chronic Pain and Mental Health: Our Approach in the Clinic
If you’ve been sick for a week or two, you may know the feeling that illness creates in your psychological character. When you are used to being able to walk easily without any problems, walking along the stairs will naturally make you feel more painful, desperate or more serious about your life and your life once.
Now, imagine having the same feeling – lack of exercise and continuous pain – 1-2 Years or 10 years old, or even 20 years old. This is what many of our patients deal with.
At this point, some patients are unable to work around their house, mow the lawn or cook dishes, do things they like to golf or swim, or even make a living. Naturally, chronic pain can eventually lead to a person’s prospects change. This can affect their mental health. How do mental health and chronic pain connect?
This is no secret: When people feel better, people’s mental health gets better.
When a person cannot work without pain, cannot be without pain, and cannot lose contact with others due to pain, they may eventually be knocked down, lose hope…lose fighting spirit. When we as humans lose this fighting spirit, we can give up and become desperate.
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As pain management experts, sometimes some encouragement after a patient’s meeting is an important contribution to their recovery journey, in addition to the pain care they have received. Just remind our patients of the strength of the body they truly possess, and the ability they can pass through it, no matter how hard it is, to be everything for those who feel they have lost hope.
A very important aspect of treating chronic pain is trying to remind people of fighting spirit. Sometimes there is even a little hard love, reminding people that each of us must work hard, sometimes even work hard to make smaller progress. Another option is just to give up. In order to achieve lasting progress, people need to be fully involved and do their best. Treat chronic pain, if we want the best results, we cannot be passive
Sometimes, it’s all about reminding people that there is still hope and that we must adapt to the change.
Think about it: if you are baking cakes but only eating raw eggs, it won’t taste great, nor will it eat flour by yourself. You need to put them together to discover the real flavor. That’s what we strive to do: control their pain through a comprehensive approach and procedures specifically targeting them and become a team member throughout the process.
What kind of “homework” will you give after a meeting with your patient?
In our Amarillo branch we usually provide patients with some general exercises to do so when they need it, and then refer it to some of the town’s rehabilitation-oriented specialists, and we also Rehabilitation can be covered. For our other branches, like in Austin, everything is under one roof, they have the ability to arrange physical therapy and internal restoration!
We usually recommend a book to them. The body of life, Bill Phillips. It teaches patients how to do weight training and restore mental and physical strength. Of course, we can’t Production Our patients do anything, but we can at least point them in the right direction.
As APC grows, we strive to strive for a multidisciplinary approach for all branches to connect many interconnected professions so that physical therapists can communicate with anesthesiologists and surgeons without the need for patients to have to shuffle the paperwork. At a loss for work.
While we are still developing the area at the Amarillo branch, we do have a range of relationships with other clinics, so we can make the patient’s pain management journey as simple as possible. So, if you are looking for pain management care in Texas, please contact the APC near you for the help you deserve. We believe in becoming your doctor and Your teammates.
