Pain Relief
Managing pain remains one of the biggest challenges in medical care today, with chronic disabling pain affecting millions of people around the world. Dr. Shahila Rose has developed Organics Pain Relief as a product that uses only the highest quality Organic essential oils and ingredients that will help to relieve the pain, naturally. Many clients' experience has shown that Organics Pain Relief is a complementary or alternative form of pain relief.
Pain is a message sent by the body to the brain, signaling the presence of disease, injury or strain. Without pain, people would be unaware of many problems - from torn ligaments to appendicitis. Pain is simply, Mother Nature's way of telling you something is wrong.
Many of us kill the messenger with narcotics, anti-depressants and tranquilizers that take care of the symptoms, but not the cause of the pain. This kind of treatment not only masks the symptoms of serious disease, but also creates a cycle of chronic pain.
But, not all pain serves a useful function. While acute pain, as described above, can alert us to serious problems, chronic pain can linger long after an ailment or injury has healed in the body. Examples of chronic pain include backache, migraines and arthritis. In these cases, pain management, as opposed to a cure, may become the goal of treatment.
Psychological effects that accompany recovery from a disease or injury heighten chronic pain. A loss of confidence is often triggered by prolonged periods of rest and inactivity that cause a loss of physical strength, endurance and flexibility. If the injury prevents you from performing your usual duties, you may succumb to frustration and depression. Impatience is chronic pain's best friend as many individuals over-exert themselves before they have completely healed, thus triggering even more pain.
Various treatments can help alleviate chronic pain. Some treatments work on a purely physical level by interfering with signals from the nerves to the brain or by de-sensitizing the nerves. The following sections are meant to introduce you to some of the ways of dealing with pain without relying on anti-inflammatory medicines, narcotics, tranquilizers or anti-depressants.
Pain as a Unique Experience
To begin with, we need to remind ourselves that pain is a multi-dimensional experience. Until relatively recently, pain was defined largely from a physiological/sensory viewpoint. Dr. Shahila Rose believes in expanding the understanding of pain to include somatic, cognitive and affective aspects that are integral and essential to the experience of pain. The acknowledgment that psychological and emotional factors also play a key role in how pain is perceived, appraised and effectively treated is a clear step forward in modern pain management.
Pain can be difficult to assess and classify. This is because the experience of pain is unique, subjective and highly personal. It has complex psychological, social and spiritual aspects. As Holistic Health Practitioners, we have to rely on our clients to express their experience of the pain and to respect their impressions of the experience.
One of the most important steps that a Holistic Health Practitioner can make in their initial assessment of the person in pain is to take a detailed case history. Within this context, there may be questions pertinent to the person's pain experience. Typical questions concerning the pain experience itself are included:
Typical pain questions
- • Where is the pain?
- • Is it localized or generalized?
- • When did the pain begin?
- • Is there a past history?
- • Is it related to work, injury or activity?
- • Are there aggravating or precipitating factors?
- • Is there a pattern to the pain?
- • Does it interfere with normal activities?
- • Is it constant, intermittent or episodic?
- • What is the pain like?
- • What is its severity?
- • Is there associated stiffness, swelling or inflammation?
- • What helps to ease it?
- • Are there associated neurological symptoms?
The words the person in pain uses to describe their pain can be insightful to their experiences from a sensory, cognitive and affective perspective. Words such as 'sickening', 'blinding', 'frightful', 'miserable' and 'unbearable' are commonly used descriptors. These words have a significant affective or cognitive weighting. Words such as 'sharp', 'burning', 'shooting', 'pounding' and 'throbbing' have a more somatic emphasis. Thus, effective listening skills are essential for the therapist in order to hear truly what the person is saying about himself or herself.
The Person in Pain
A general observation of the person in pain is that they are often 'trapped in the moment'. As time goes by and pain continues, the concept of a future without pain is harder to grasp and to focus on. Pain becomes the focus of their attention. Many people feel that they are controlled by pain; it dominates every aspect of their life.
There are many variables in regards to the perception of pain by an individual. However, the most common factor is that of anxiety, in particular the fear of pain or the fear of more pain. This has an impact not only on the experience of pain but also on the person's highly individual coping strategy. The person's pain may be influenced by cultural and social factors as well as past experiences: PAIN, FOCUS ON PAIN, ATTENTION, FEAR, and ANXIETY. The pain experience may quickly develop whereupon fear leads to anxiety, which in turn increases attention to and focus on the pain.
If pain persists, then along with fear and anxiety, a sense of failure, frustration, anger and depression may be experienced. Depression is a feature of most chronic painful conditions. Often in this stage, the person is likely to adopt passive coping mechanisms or an avoidance behavior which in the short term can give some relief but in the long term can perpetuate the problem.
There are intrinsic relationships between injury, pain and stress (physical or psychological). Pain always initiates the stress response/alarm state. Any type of stress has a profound impact on the immune system. Chronic stress is particularly disabling. It can actually perpetuate and contribute to ongoing chronic pain via peripheral and central nervous system mechanisms.
Sleep deprivation is another common feature of the person in pain. This is partly due to the fact that pain creates an alarm state and thus affects arousal and wakefulness. A lack of sleep potentiates pain.
The sensation of pain also leads to postural, behavioral and social changes. If the person locks into a 'pain posture' and maintains this for any prolonged period of time, biodynamic stress is placed on the musculoskeletal system, leading to compensatory changes that may include endocrine and nervous system changes and lead to further imbalance. Furthermore, the 'sick role' that the person may adopt may include further behavioral and social changes that perpetuate the problem. If a person's experience has taught them that a particular action (e.g. a massage or a cup of tea) brings relief, their expectation is likely to affect the end result positively.
One of the most common assumptions by the person in pain is that activity/exercise will exacerbate or aggravate the condition. In many cases this is a false assumption, at least in the case of chronic pain or when avoidance of activity and movement is prolonged. Periods of inactivity can lead to: PAIN, GREATER FATIGUE, WEAKENED MUSCLES, ANXIETY DEPRESSION, and AVOIDANCE BELIEF and AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR. When pain creates fear and leads to avoidance behavior that in fact increases disability and pain. Thus avoidance of activities that may create pain may help to reduce anxiety but in fact precipitates the pain itself!
If we consider the above points when we encounter persons with pain, it becomes obvious that Organics Pain Relief will give positive assistance in a number of ways that can deliver the pain relief experience.
How Organics Pain Relief Can Help
Because of very strong anti-inflammatory ingredients content in Organics Pain Relief oils often relieves the pain within moments of application."
