Chronic Pain leads to Deconditioning- A Novel Solution

Chronic Pain leads to Deconditioning-  A Novel Solution

One of the greatest challenges that people who have chronic pain have is to deal with is getting weaker than they were when they first started to have chronic pain.   Actually for many people with chronic pain, if they are frank in their self assessment, will admit that they weren’t that strong to start with.   In other words they enter into the chronic pain situation in an already somewhat deconditioned condition.  

It is this deconditioned state that then further aggravates the chronic pain they are having.  This is because the mechanics that lead to tissue starting to hurt are further aggravated as supporting muscles get weaker and weaker.  

And then as the person starts to hurt with movement, they tend to move less rather than more---but what they need to do is move more and to move effectively.  What that kind of movement is would be a whole series of teachings which I won’t get into, but suffice it to say that if this doesn’t happen it will lead to an inevitable downward spiral of decreasing activity and increasing pain.

First though we need to think more about chronic pain.  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.  (Read more about these alternatives here.)

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 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 at this site-  go here now! 

 

Stanley Lang

Whole Health Coach