5 Tips to Relieve Joint and Back Pain Without Medication
Lisa Copen
If chronic pain has got you down, it's understandable but not an emotional state you need to live in forever. With just a few little changes in your life today you can form clear positive thoughts to help relieve pain.
1) Stop off at the pet store before coming home from the doctor's office just to watch the animals. Twenty minute smiling through the glass at the puppies, kittens or even the little hamsters spinning on their wheels, can give you a better outlook on life. Research has proven that pets have a special place in our emotional well-being, decreasing our stress, improving our health, and even assisting us in healing from surgeries even faster. There are many reasons that pet facilitated therapy health care has become so widely accepted. It's been proven that pet owners with chronic and terminal illness actually are healthier people.
2) When was the last time you heard a song that was your favorite back in high school? Start putting together a collection of your favorite songs. The new ipod shuffle recently dropped in price to just $50 and it holds about 250 songs. This little device is around the size of a cracker, yet it can increase your energy level exponentially. Research has found that listening to music for just twenty minutes a day can decrease one's level of pain. Researchers have also found the beneficial effects of music listening on healing in children. So start putting together a list of the songs you eventually will want to download and ask people to give you itunes cards as gifts. Son you will have a wide variety of songs that will inspire you, spur childhood memories, provide energy, hope, and maybe even a desire to get up and dance, even if you just dance around the kitchen floor with a broom.
3) Tell your kids to move on over, you want to play video games with them. Video games are no longer just for entertainment purposes. Wheeling Jesuit University had a study that found video games can distract someone from their pain drastically enough to give them an authentic reprieve from their chronic pain. The organization Games for Health recently was developed to network researchers, medical professionals, and game developers so they can share information. There is a lot of talk about impact games and game technologies are having and will have on health care and health care policy. Don't be surprised if following a surgery your occupational therapist pulls out a Wii and tell you to bowl for fifteen minutes.
4) Pick up a coloring book and a one of those huge boxes of crayons with the sharpener in the back. If you haven't had children in your home, it's easy to assume that it's been years since you've experienced the delight of a newly sharpened crayon in your fingers. They have coloring books for everything now, or even free downloads online. Some of these include: wedding coloring books, leprechaun coloring book, and even monkey coloring books.
5) Cut some fresh flowers outside and bring them inside your home house. Take a hint from royal families and put them in each room, even a small bud in a vase in your bathroom. A few fresh flowers blended with fruit and musk can quickly change your outlook on the day through your sense. If you can't find any flowers in your yard, consider pulling a blooming weed. For example, a yellow dandelion can still give you a reprieve from panic, "burnout," depression, and extreme fatigue.
Living with chronic pain is conceivably one of the most demanding trials most people will face in their lifetime. But with a few simple changes and being aware of what you can do to relieve a bit of pain, you can revitalize the joy in your every day life. Though you may not have control over the illness, you can control your environment. Make it a happy one.
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