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Pain Management
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Even the word "pain" hurts to those of us who endure levels of pain
each day. Pain management is what the doctors tell us to do. This
sounds great in theory, but what does it mean, and how does one go
about doing it? These are excellent questions. It probably sounds
"logical", but the better you are at describing your pain to others,
the better you can get help in managing pain. And, pain management is
the key!
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Pain Management 101
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There are two types of pain. There is chronic and acute pain. Each one has specific aliments that can be categorized by category, the acute or the chronic pain. Each person’s pain level and tolerances are different than another’s. So when someone says I felt this amount of pain, you may feel like this too, don’t listen, you may feel pain but you may feel it less or maybe more than another.
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Why Muscles Get Sore
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As people age, they begin to complain more of pains in their muscles and joints. They seem to stiffen up with age, and such commonplace activities as bending over for the morning paper can make them wince.
Such pain can grip so fiercely that they are sure it begins deep in their bones. But the real cause of stiffness and soreness lies not in the joints or bones, according to research at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, but in the muscles and connective tissues that move the joints.
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Do Sweet Smells Make Pain More Tolerable?
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Apparently so. Recent research has shown that pleasant smells can increase pain tolerance, and a recent paper by Prescott and Wilkie(1) suggests that it is specifically sweet smells that do so. I'll just skip to the experiment, and spare you the background, because the experiment contains all you need to know.
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Chronic Pain and Opiods
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Chronic pain is a progressive disease of the nervous system, caused by failure of the body’s internal pain control systems. The disease is accompanied by changes in the chemical and anatomical makeup of the spinal cord. Article answers all your questions on treating this pain with opiods
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