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Pain is a Part of Life

By December 4, 2018 February 26th, 2019 No Comments

 

Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it is useful and can be a warning of danger, injury, or illness. Children learn to avoid danger because of pain. A baby’s crying warns parents to find out what is wrong. The very rare children who cannot feel pain often cause themselves serious harm. However, some pain, such as pain from surgery or from a needle, is not a warning. It serves no useful purpose. Pain should be treated. Untreated pain causes anxiety, depression, irritability and exhaustion. Pain can also cause problems with eating and sleeping. Pain may cause people to act in “babyish” ways. Pain causes changes in the brain that make future pain worse. Pain can slow healing, disrupt treatment and may cause medical problems. Pain that is not controlled makes people afraid…..

I have adapted the above paragraph from a document produced by Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.  The children’s hospitals in Australia have whole departments dedicated to pain, both acute and chronic.  We are learning more and more about pain, and this is a topic that is obviously close to my heart…  I started thinking about it more today, when a client who having completed her first session with me stated “I’d thought it was something I would just have to get used to…”  I hear this every day and it is not true for the majority of people.. Another client during the week said to me “I am only 25%.  I am depressed and don’t feel myself, this is not normal and I don’t want this to be it”.

At least one in five Australians lives with chronic pain, and often the cause is unkno