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- Stress Management To Prevent Chronic Pain
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Stress Management To Prevent Chronic Pain
Dear Reader,
If you're dealing with chronic pain, your search for relief probably seems endless, perhaps hopeless. You doctor will tell you that being anxious or stressed can make pain worse, and set in motion a vicious cycle as the pain causes more anxiety and stress. It seems that avoiding the affects of stress might play an important part in managing pain according to work that appears in the journal Brain. This finding is particularly important for those with a smaller than typical hippocampus as these
people seem to be more vulnerable to the effects of stress than the rest of us.
The research by Dr. Pierre Rainville, Ph.D. of the Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM) and his team included 16 subjects who had chronic back pain and a control group of 16 healthy participants. The team was looking for relationships between 1) cortisol levels, 2) assessment of clinical pain reported by subjects before their brain scan, 3) hippocampus volumes measured
using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 4) brain activations using functional MRI that followed thermal pain stimulation. The subjects with chronic pain generally had higher cortisol levels than healthy people.
Cortisol is a hormone that's made by the adrenal glands (sometimes known as the stress hormone) and the study shows that having a small hippocampus volume is linked to higher cortisol levels. This makes you more vulnerable to pain and having that pain become chronic.
Looking more closely at the data, the team saw that those with a smaller hippocampus had higher cortisol levels and stronger reactions to acute pain in a part of the brain involved with anticipatory anxiety that relates to pain. The response of the brain to the pain during the scan reflected, in part, the intensity of the patient's current pain levels. This supports the idea that those with a smaller hippocampus end up with a stronger response to stress, and this in turn increases their
pain and the risk of having that pain become chronic.
The research sheds more light onto the neurobiological mechanisms involved in stress and pain. No matter the reason, pain is often associated with high levels of stress, and there is value to be found in managing stress to help in treatments for those who are dealing with pain that lasts. Add stress management to your medical treatment plan by talking with a counselor, using relaxation techniques or practicing meditation.
Stress
management won't take away the pain, but it will help you get it under your control, help muscles release, while both breathing and heart rate slow down. When you relax, the mind slows and focuses on other things... becoming distracted from pain sensations so that they drop into the background.
Here are some simple stress management techniques to try...
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Stress Management To Prevent Chronic Pain Continued...
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Breathe deeply, inhale and hold the breath for a few seconds, and then exhale.
Do this at least three times in a row while you close your eyes and focus only
on the sound of your breath.
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Distract yourself by bringing to mind an image that is peaceful and relaxing.
Imagine doing something you enjoy that's calming, like taking a bath, walking
along the beach, resting in a hammock or just relaxing in a peaceful garden...
visualize this place as vividly as possible with all sights, sounds, smells you
can and take yourself there any time you need to escape.
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Sing or listen to music you find pleasant. Singing helps release tension.
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Walk away as taking a little break from a tense environment can be all you need
to ease the tension building in you. Grab a water, or get some fresh air. Count
to ten before you go back inside.
If these aren't enough, you might want to look into more regular stress management techniques like practicing yoga, getting a massage, daily mediation or just schedule some down time for yourself, doing something you enjoy.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/256898.php
More on chronic pain and stress:
http://pain.about.com/od/livingwithchronicpain/a/relaxation.htm
News release, University of Montreal, February 25, 2013:
http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20130225-preventing-chronic-pain-with-stress-management.html
Study abstract, Brain, 3 March 2013:
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/136/3/815.abstract
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