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Pain Reprocessing Therapy to help and even eliminate chronic pain
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Aug 3 8:47am | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
I did a residential chronic pain rehabilitation program last fall. I found it invaluable.
Although after the 2nd day I went up to one of the instructors letting them know I was in extreme pain from all the exercise,I thought I may need the hospital my thighs felt injured. By the beginning of the next week, not only was that pain gone(it was my muscles tearing as they do when you workout) my everyday pain was also lessened. I learned to use and love yoga, tai chi, and meditation.
Yoga and Tai chi can be done sitting in a chair which I did because for the last five years I needed a wheelchair or walker to get around. I also realized even with my mobility issues I can do water exercise and gym movements. I attribute this therapy to being the biggest factor in helping me heal after back surgery in January. I am out of wheelchair and don’t need a walker. I am mobile and know that I am stronger than I thought I was. I still have pain it is less and when it pays me a call I send it to the background and move on.
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how did you find this program? was it by MD referral? covered by insurance? my husband has had degenerative disc disease dx'd 15 yrs ago, 2 surgeries, facing 2 more and is in pain, plus the chronic insomnia Throw in some new gout issues for good measure
It's exhausting to ask the MDs and pain management MD and get blank looks
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It’s hard to let go of pain when you’re feeling it. Movement of any kind seems counterintuitive when you are “in pain”. But it is a good antidote to ignoring the pain and concentrating on the activity and the marvelous way your body can move. I love to move outside whether it’s hiking or biking. If pain arises I acknowledge it, then I turn my attention to the beauty of the trees, the foliage, the path under my feet. Breathe! Thoughts of gratitude. This chronic or recurring pain becomes deminished or gone because I don’t give it the power of dwelling on it.
Misssuezq, this is what works for me just as yoga and Tai Chi seems to work for you. Plus, you get the socialization of classes.
To others this must sound too simple or even crazy. I encourage you to find what works for you it!