Pain Relief With Therapy - But Not For Long
Does Your Pain Get Better?
Does your pain get better when you have some sort of physical therapy?
Some kind of treatment on it? Quite often, it does, but quite often, the pain comes back.
That's why we describe it as persistent, but when you have a physical treatment, you're attending to yourself.
You do something that represents you looking after yourself.
Type of Treatment
It almost doesn't matter what that treatment is.
It means that the pain has got to a certain level when you've decided you need some help. You get help with your pain by going to someone else to help you relieve it.
It sets the scene for your partial recovery, and you may get those gaps where the pain is less.
Pain Comes Back
It might just be for a little while, but inevitably with persistent pain, it will come back.
It does come back, and that's because you're only treating one part of the story. One part of it is a physical element.
You feel it, so treating it physically makes sense. But because you're looking for only the physical origin and only a physical component to treat it.
Complex Picture
It's one part of such a complex picture, so it's like just picking one element of the story. One aspect of what creates that experience and thinking that addressing that will erase the whole story.
You don't have to look at every detail behind why your pain came, but you do have to find the origin of it.
That is often an emotion from an event or a time in your life when the pain started and the behaviors you demonstrated around that time. You may have been pushing hard in that situation. Doing your best to survive it, get through it, or recover from it.
Intense Negative Emotion
It could have been a situation you were frustrated with, fearful of, or angry about, or where you experienced any negative kind of negative emotion intensely or for an extended period.
Those emotions glue all the small parts or the situation together as it is encoded in the brain and the body.
The physical element is one bit of it, so treating that one bit will help, but unless you understand what makes up the bigger picture, it's a futile practice of just getting physical treatment.
Movement is Freedom
Physical aspects are and can be essential parts of your recovery, and I use them with patients.
When we move, and it feels safe or pleasurable, it represents freedom.
But the focus cannot remain only on the physical aspect of persistent pain for its resolution.
Look Beyond the Physical
It can be hard to look beyond that physical element, especially when presented with the evidence supporting it as the primary cause of your pain.
You don't have to let that go entirely, as our physical changes have to be respected. But it will help your recovery to change the way you feel about physical changes within you.
You can still keep the physical elements, but you have to be open to something beyond that if you want to recover from persistent pain.
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