When considering pain, there are two basic types. One can have acute pain due to an immediate problem like a sprained ankle. This is usually limited to the beginning phase of an injury or illness. Usually it’s a warning that something is wrong and that
it should be addressed by seeing a physician or physical therapist to see if something needs to be treated. As time goes on
if the pain lingers then it’s considered chronic. Chronic pain may be associated with an acute problem that evolves into a chronic
one or it may be something associated with a disease process like fibromyalgia, osteoporosis or arthritis. Both require treatment
but how they’re treated may be quite different.
Those who suffer from acute pain are treated as if their pain
will go away. When it doesn’t and chronic pain results, the long term effects of a disease process may be quite frustrating
for the patient. Fibromyalgia, Lyme disease and arthritis are diseases associated with chronic pain in many areas of the body.
Specific treatments, writings and hints can be found in our resource links, products and book links. Devices to make home, work
and leisure activities less stressful on the body and to decrease the impact of these problems can also be found on our products
page.
Pain is considered more today than at any other time in the past in terms of evaluating a person’s overall well being. You can’t go to a medical facility and not be asked to fill out a pain scale with a smiley face on one end and a sad face on the other. Often you are asked to either name a number from one to ten or place a mark on a line to describe your pain.
