Chronic pain

Narcotics are pain relieving drugs that work by receptors in the brain and dulling the sense of pain. Generally, is an opiate. The benefits are for use only the treatment of acute pain, cancer pain syndrome, chronic pain as low back pain, post-herpetic neuralgia. When is not malignant chronic pain was considered to be unresponsive to opioids, or the use of combination medicament with opioids. The narcotics as well their medical uses. The narcotics have effect as analgesic, sedation; and…

Analyzing Chronic Pain as it Pertains to Affecting a Whole Person Chronic Pain is experienced by a large population of individuals and often affects every aspect of one's existence. Kirkham, Smith, and Havsteen-Franklin, in referencing an analysis from the Institute of Medicine, state, "about 100 million adults in the United States suffer from chronic pain" (2015, para. 2). Pain is often hard to describe, making the experience of chronic pain an isolating experience for some individuals. When…

medications fix our pain and discomfort or do they temporarily mask our pain? Consider chronic pain, everlasting pain that never completely goes away. With prescribed medication comes temporary relief as well as a gateway to more problems also known as negative side affects. Why don’t we start prescribing our own medicine, why don’t we consider medicine with positive side affects. We can and we must educate ourselves to indulge in immediate and long term relief of chronic pain! This will include…

Connection Between Chronic Pain and Dehydration It seems as though the present-day media cares a great deal about terminal illnesses. Sure, having one’s life stolen before one’s time is a horrible thing, but there are other people who suffer, as well. A perfect example of this is people who experience chronic pain day in and day out. You see, even if their situation doesn’t get any worse, and even if it doesn’t pose a direct threat to their lives, they are still in a tricky spot. In a lot of…

student, comes to the clinic for evaluation of a sore throat which started about 2 days ago, suddenly along with fever. She states that her roommate had a bad cold sore a week ago. She states she has never experienced sore throat before. Currently, the pain is 10/10. She states a sore throat hurts when swallowing liquids and solids. Member states both sides of her neck is sore and tender. She states she has tried over the counter analgesics- Tylenol every 6 hours which helps to relieve the fever…

Comparing with the normal treatment like pain-killers, herbal medicine surprisingly has a more significant effect on patients with CPPS. In accordance with its features, CPPS, which is known as chronic pelvic pain syndrome, is a disease that is given when patients complain of severe pain or discomfort in the pelvic area with no infection can be found in prostate fluid and semen. Of course, there is also no pathological change on the prostate gland. In the view of modern western medicine, CPPS…

When your morning begins with pain and your day ends with pain it is exhausting. Not just physically exhausting, mentally and emotionally, too. Anyone who has lived with chronic pain will know just how frustrating it is. Whether your chronic pain has a diagnosable name or you are still experiencing never ending tests. The truth is that the average person cannot understand what you are going through, because they haven’t lived it. It can be difficult to empathize with someone that is dealing…

can lead to muscular problems such as jaw and back pain, headaches and muscular tensions that can result in tendon and ligament problems and pulled muscles. Acute stress can also lead to complications with diarrhea, flatulence, constipation, heart burn and acid problems ( American Psychological Association, 2015). Chronic Stress. While acute stress can be exciting and positive, chronic stress is quite the opposite. Chronic stress is long term and wears on the body.…

Recently, NBC nightly news showcased a news from by public relations efforts. The news frame is called “FDA Approves New Treatment For Chronic Knee Pain”. Although this video is shown on a major national news site, it is sourced from public relations professionals. Throughout the video, they follow a woman with chronic knee arthritis. She begins by explaining the pain and then the narrator describes her extensive medical treatment before she had the new treatment. Continuing, the narrator…

IHere at Chronic Pain and PTSD associates we believe that there is no cookie cutter answer when it comes to relief. We feel that it sometimes takes multiple tries to find the right treatment. When residents of Frostburg, MD, Ridgeley, WV, Fiintstone, MD and surrounding areas need help, we do our best to find the right solution for them. No one should have to suffer day after day. Far too often we have clients come in and say that prescriptions that were prescribed to them did nothing to ease…