Saturday, May 23, 2009
Why pain becomes chronic?
When a pain condition continues more than 3 to 6 months, we call it chronic pain. Is this just a name change or there are real differences between acute and chronic pain. It turns out that there are many real changes that happen in our nervous system and through them our pain becomes chronic. We have many control mechanisms in our spinal cord and brain to either inhibit or facilitate pain message transportation. When pain becomes chronic, many of the inhibitory systems stop working and many facilitatory systems get activated. Some of these changes may be correctable and some may be permanent. The focus of chronic pain treatment is to reverse the correctable changes and and prevent permanent changes. Because of these changes in our nervous system we may get symptoms in areas different from our actual primary injury. For years patients would be subject of doubt and miss trust because we did not know why would their symptoms of pain be wider than their areas of injury. Now we know. So our chronic pain is real and it has a real physiological list of reasons to exist. Don't let anybody tell you it is only in your head, although we all perceive pain by our heads!!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Don't hate your pain!!
Your pain is a part of you, don't hate it. Actually you should not hate anything about yourself. Instead try to learn this: Like yourself so you can love yourself again. RESPECT yourself. Your pain has limited you in all forms and ways, but you are who you are no matter what.
When pain starts to control your life, you can fall into deep depression and see only black. You cant see any light in your life. You start hating everything in your life. In reality you lose respect for yourself and think you do not deserve a better life. This needs to change. You are a respectable person. You need to remind yourself that you deserve a better life despite the fact that your pain is bothering you so much. chronic pain is a medical condition but suffering is a mental decision. We should all work on our self respect and better ways of thinking about our life. Positive thinking brings on positive emotions. Positive emotions would lead into better management of our life.
Kevin ROD
Your pain is a part of you, don't hate it. Actually you should not hate anything about yourself. Instead try to learn this: Like yourself so you can love yourself again. RESPECT yourself. Your pain has limited you in all forms and ways, but you are who you are no matter what.
When pain starts to control your life, you can fall into deep depression and see only black. You cant see any light in your life. You start hating everything in your life. In reality you lose respect for yourself and think you do not deserve a better life. This needs to change. You are a respectable person. You need to remind yourself that you deserve a better life despite the fact that your pain is bothering you so much. chronic pain is a medical condition but suffering is a mental decision. We should all work on our self respect and better ways of thinking about our life. Positive thinking brings on positive emotions. Positive emotions would lead into better management of our life.
Kevin ROD
Friday, May 1, 2009
My dear friends to this blog: WELCOME As you know I am Kevin ROD a physician practising in pain management in Toronto. I will be posting info about pain and try to share ideas with you. Things like Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain Syndrome, Neuropathic pain, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Headaches, Lower back pain, Chronic Neck Pain, Car Accident injuries, Depression, Pelvic Pain, Arthritis, etc. Please join me in this blog.
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