Pain is your friend.
Don’t manage or kill pain. It’s just a signal indicating a problem underneath. Keep your emotions aside for a while and try understand the message instead of killing the messenger. Signal, etymologically derived from sign, literally refers to visible symptom(s) and not the cause.
Pain is a symptom of an underlying tissue damage.
What does that signal mean?
Pain is a signal to stop what you are doing as overexertion is stressing your body beyond its maximum limits. In the beginning, the signal is feeble, short lived and conditional. For instance, a hurt toe is likely to cause acute pain when bent in a certain way or under excessive pressure. When warning signs are ignored, it is likely to be injured further. The pain grows and eventually persistent.
The pain signal is quite loud in case of an accidental damage such as a hurt toe. It is less prominent when your back aches because of slouching or sinking into a sofa chair for long. With rest, the pain will go away. It is likely to comeback if you don’t develop right posture.
Pain and underlying problem worsen and turn chronic when neglected often.
A psycho-somatic experience
Human body is a continuum in time and space. When an energy flow is broken, it quietly works towards restoring equilibrium and repairing any damages. It needs your support, however. It asks you avoid using damaged part. Not so obvious part is, it wants you to contemplate series of events leading to pain, distill learnings and remember entire experience. Painful memories will help you approaching similar situations with care and consideration.
Dealing with Pain
Hope
You would think that the pain will go away on its own through natural healing. Accidental damages gets repaired over time, without your intervention.
Chronic pain is an outcome of wrong habits. Tissue damage compounds over time.
Avoidance
Sadly, many choose to ignore pain in their busy lives, thereby exacerbating it eventually. Avoidance isn’t an appropriate strategy.
Masking
Some resort to pain killers such ibuprofen, thinking pain is their enemy. Pain killing interferes into nervous system operation and inhibit pain signals from reaching to brain, where they are interpreted. Temporary relief tricks you into thinking that the pain is gone and as a result, you are likely to continue with habits that caused you pain. Brain responds by increasing number of pain receptors so pain is more prominent as soon as the effects of a drug wanes.
Pain killers amplify pain over time despite providing an instant and short-lived relief.
Opioids
Sometimes pain becomes intense and unbearable so opioids are prescribed to counter it. Opioids work similar to pain killers as they block pain signals. In addition, they mess up your reward system by rewiring neural pathways, causing addiction and crazy mood swings.
Pain Management
When pain prevents you from experiencing your life, it needs to be managed. It may take weeks and months for tissue damage to be fully repaired.
Don’t battle pain. Embrace it, manage it and reverse the damage.
iBliss can help you manage pain through various modalities such as:
Medical massage
Compression Threrapy
Percussion Therapy
Contrast Therapy
Reversal
It’s possible to reverse the pain, revive underlying tissues and regain full strength. It will be discussed in-depth in upcoming posts.
Prevention
With conscious effort and right techniques pain can be prevented. It will be discussed in-depth in upcoming posts.
