Treatment Options
Whether your pain is from arthritis, cancer treatments, fibromyalgia, or an old injury, you need to find a way to get your pain under control. What's the best approach to do that?
The first step in pain management is scheduling an appointment with your doctor to determine the cause of your pain and learn which pain management approach is often the most effective for it. There are many different pain management options available: You can find the right treatment combination to get the relief you need.
Before you try to treat your pain, it's important to understand how pain is defined.
"The International Association for the Study of Pain came up with a consensus statement," says Judith Scheman, PhD, program director of the Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. "Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. I think that's extraordinarily important. When we focus only on the sensory aspect, we fail to appreciate the suffering component
of the pain, which is important to recognize because pain is not what occurs
at the periphery."
Why Do People Experience Pain Differently?
Pain is real and it's physical — there's no mistaking that. But pain is measured
and specific to one person based on that person's perception of the pain, and
that's why everyone's pain is different.
"What the brain perceives is indisputably modifiable by emotions," notes Scheman. That means that people who are fearful of pain, depressed, or anxious may experience pain differently, and perhaps more severely, than someone who has
pain but isn't experiencing those other emotions.
Pain Management: Treating Mind and Body
Scheman stresses the importance of approaching pain both physically and emotionally and addressing "people as entire human beings.” So while chronic
pain medication can be effective and important for pain management for many people, it isn't the only tool available when it comes to pain treatment, and it shouldn't be the only tool that's used.
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