Chronic Pain and Recreation

Chronic Pain and Recreation-  A Surprising and New Solution

Many people who deal with chronic pain experience a radical decrease in their ability to have fun.   So many activities of recreation involve movement and the movement is often vigorous.  Ever see a slow motion game of volleyball?   Unfortunately people with chronic pain have a need to stay active to try to remain healthy-- but their pain decreases their ability to be active.   It is vitally important for people with chronic pain to find ways to stay active in a new way-- and to have fun.

Fortunately there are actually a lot of ways to creatively be more active but relatively low intensity.  You just have to willing to get out of the proverbial “comfort zone” and try new things.  The key is:  stay active and keep trying new ways to do so.

Otherwise chronic pain will control your life.

What is Chronic Pain anyway?

Well, we all know what pain is.   But what is chronic pain?    Well the purpose of pain is to help us avoid bad things happening to our body.  When an injury happens, things hurt.  That’s the way it’s supposed to be.  That is called “acute pain”.  

Chronic pain, however, is pain that lasts well after the 6 week time that it should normally take for an injury to get better.   Some would say that you can’t call it chronic pain until it has lasted for 3 months.   Either way the pain is lasting well after the injury.

There are many medical strategies to try to help deal with chronic pain and it is absolutely crucial that anybody who has chronic pain seek medical attention to figure out why they have it and what can be done about it.   Nobody--- and I repeat nobody--- should ever deal with their chronic pain using alternative strategies until they have had a thorough evaluation.  

Unfortunately for many people, after the evaluation there is the reality that their chronic pain is still with them.   It just stays and stays and stays.   In that case it becomes very reasonable to pursue alternative strategies as long as they are safe.  

I have discovered that a very powerful nutrient grown right in the Sonoran Desert called “betalains” may help to decrease chronic pain.   At least that’s been the experience of some people who have been fortunate enough to get ahold of this nutrient.

Fortunately this nutrient can now be obtained in the highest concentrations anywhere in the world through a whole food in drink form that actually tastes good.  You can read the story about this very powerful nutrient and how it might help chronic pain here (do it now!).

 

Stanley Lang

Wholehealth Trainer