Pain management requires various techniques to alleviate pain, as pain sensations can vary widely between individuals and have different underlying causes. Major techniques used in pain management include medication, interventional procedures like injections, physical therapy, counseling, and alternative therapies. Managing pain effectively often requires identifying the underlying cause so that the optimal treatment approach can be determined. A holistic lifestyle approach may also be needed to address how modern sedentary lifestyles can contribute to increased instances of chronic pain.

1. Managing Pain
Requires Efforts
but Best
Techniques
Alleviate It

2. Pain is a sensation which is quite uncomfortable and
unpleasant is caused when a person undergoes an injury to
the tissues of the body thereby producing emotional and
physical reactions. People suffering from pain alone can
describe the actual discomfort they go through. According to
some studies conducted in this field, pain is a reaction of the
body that presumably helps in protecting bodies from any
injuries or harm that can cause low performance. This
sensation is actually a predictor, a protector or in simple
words, just a “hassle”.

3. Concepts of pain
At certain points of time, our bodies experience the
sensation of pain to a lesser or greater degree. Medical
attention is required by the individuals suffering from this
situation depending on the intensity. Some people also
see pain as a stimulus rather than a hassle. The response
intensity is subjective to a considerable extent. This
means that only the person suffering from pain can define
the severity of this disconcerting situation rather than by
other people. Medical attention is also sought only when
the situation gets out of control. The perception of the
sufferers also varies widely which can be due to several
other reasons. Some of the reasons are pattern of sleep,
mood, activity or hunger.

4. Managing pain
Management of pain can be simple or
complex and it can also depend on the
causes behind this sensation. For
example, pain that occurs due to
irritation in nerve root due to herniated
disc is comparatively less complex
even when pain is shooting down the
leg. For alleviation of this condition,
epidural steroid injections can be used
besides physical therapy. At times, pain
does not go away even after using this
injection. Thus, a great variety of
techniques and skills may be required
for managing pain.

5. Major techniques used in pain management
Some of the major techniques that have been used
for managing pain are medication management,
interventional procedures, chiropractic therapy or
physical therapy, support and psychological
counseling, alternative therapies and acupuncture,
etc. These techniques are skills are important to
understand as pain can cause a lot of havoc in a
person’s life.

6. History of pain
Pain management is dependent on its history, its duration, its
intensity, relieving and aggravating conditions, structures that
causes pain. For structuring causes of pain, there must be a
nerve supply which is susceptible to damage or injury and the
stimulation of the same may cause excruciating pain. Behind
interventional procedures for pain management can only be used
for body’s specific structures with sensation nerves generating
pain. Management of pain has a major role to play when problem
source needs to be identified so as optimal treatment can be
isolated. There are various means and techniques of managing
pain. One of the methods which is a X-ray guided method is
fluoroscopy. This method is usually used for assisting doctors in
injection location so that proper medication reaches at the specific
spot. Injection is also guided by using ultrasound and identifying
structures. This way management of pain becomes easier.

7. Is Modern Life-Style a Culprit Behind
Many Types of Pain?
Pain is the side-effect of a defective modern life-style. The
sedentary life-style of the modern man has not only
caused many diseases that were rare and few in the past
but also have made people a lot more prone to various
kinds of pains and aches in the body. Be it the workplace
or the house, we are becoming more and more sedentary
than our ancestors, who used to live an active outdoor life.
Pain is the result of an unnatural, unhealthy life-style. In
fact, it is the symptom or an indicator of a wrong way of
living. In order to manage or alleviate pain from our bodies
and minds, it is important to take a holistic approach and
make fundamental and substantial changes in the way we
are living our lives in these modern times.

8. Reasons behind pain
For a person who works for hours on a computer,
the only exercise is the one his fingers get while
typing on the keyboard or moving the mouse!
The inactive and desk-bound working
environment in the office makes the body
inactive and the muscles and joints stiff and
inflexible. This causes lower-back problems
which can be extremely painful if not handled
properly. This sedentary modern life-style takes
its toll on the body and makes it prone to many
kinds of unnatural states, that it is not designed
to be in, for such prolonged periods of time. No
wonder people’s bodies have become
storehouses of abnormalities and painful
conditions.

9. Pain seen across all age groups
The increasing tendency in kids, youngsters as well as adult
people to stay glued to the television sets or computers at
home instead of enjoying the fresh air and life-giving activities
outdoors is causing people become increasingly vulnerable to
obesity, high blood-pressure, heart-disease, etc. Increasing
use of vehicles, very tight and uncomfortable clothing in the
name of fashion, wrong eating and drinking habits, etc. all
lead to an unhealthy state and result in pain. For instance, an
obese person is prone to pain of the leg-joints and lower-back
as the weight of the body is excessive for the joints of the leg
or lower back to support.

10. Stressful lives leading to pain
The increasingly stressful urban life also
takes its toll on the human mind and body
causing unnatural stress that result in
different kinds of pains and discomforts in
the body. Body and mind affect each other
and mental or emotional stress can cause
pain in various parts of organs of our body.
This type of pain cannot be completely
obliterated unless the underlying
psychological or emotional cause is
addressed. It needs one to rethink one’s
lifestyle and make profound changes in it
to effectively get rid of the painful
conditions.

11. Prevention of pain
The best way to heal any pain is to prevent it. However,
since pain is usually a symptom of something deeper, it is
not possible to prevent it unless the deeper issues are
resolved. It is therefore essential that we take a holistic
approach towards pain and pain management and treat the
entire person by changing his overall life-style to effectively
win the battle against pain.

12. Interventional Pain Management
JoCasta Zamarripa
3 North Second Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19106
United States
Contact No.
215-776-6404
http://www.interventionalpainmanagement.com/