You have to take due care of your health whether you are afflicted by pain, chronic or otherwise. To get pain relief from different kinds of pain, especially chronic ones, you should follow the prescriptions given by your doctor on a disciplined basis.
If your pain is nagging and persistent, then you can get yourself referred to a pain specialist. But see that you keep your primary doctor informed about the developments and prescriptions. For faster pain relief stay clear from any kind of harmful addiction like excess tea, coffee, smoking, drugs and alcohol.
A sedentary lifestyle could lead to a poor posture and poor circulation in the body which leads to problems like back ache. Now to cure this problem a doctor besides from just giving you prescription drugs, would advise you to a certain set of simple exercises. It goes without saying that exercising and yoga gives you faster pain relief.
Regular exercise beats pain in a highly effective manner. When you exercise, your brain releases feel good chemicals in the blood called endorphins (pain alleviating chemicals) that prevent pain creating signals from entering your brain. Not only do you get pain relief but it also helps cure depression and ward off negative feelings.
Normally when you are in pain, you lose sleep and this could trigger off an imbalance in your body opening the door for more potential diseases. When you exercise, you get good sleep which gives you more power to give you pain relief. Normally when people are in pain, they give in to the conventional mindset that the body needs rest. It could be true to a lesser extent because when you rest, the mind and body becomes plagued with lack of activity making it slack and lazy. When you rest excessively, you increase chances of obesity, heart failure, stroke and diabetes.
How does exercise contribute to pain relief? For one it makes your body flexible due to the stretching movements. When you do stretching exercises, it reduces stiffness of joints. Secondly exercises build your muscles and burns calories. Aerobic exercises and yoga builds your heart muscles, expands your lungs and flushes out toxins from your body faster and effectively. Besides giving you pain relief, these exercises help increase blood circulation to the brain which gives you more vigor and alertness.
Please understand that you should first start off with basic or moderate exercises. Prepare your body before it is ready to be involved in a heavy work out. Be consistent and disciplined with your exercises. Join a health club and take along some friends so that you have a good time while you exercise.
You should also have a positive frame of mind and a good healthy attitude toward life. Learn to appreciate beauty and the magic of love and life. Infuse humor in your relationship. Smile and spread warmth and joy around you. When you laugh, the brain releases endorphins or feel good chemicals which provide pain relief quickly. You literally forget about the pain when you are having a good time. Pain relief may appear difficult but definitely it is possible to rise above your pain. Apart from latching on to your doctor's prescription, see that you eat well, sleep regularly and exercise your brain and body to improve blood circulation and boost your immune system to ward off diseases away.
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