Sometimes the mental toll of chronic pain can be as bad if not worse than the physical ramifications. While western medicine mainly focuses on treating the body only, there should be more focus on the treatment of the body as a whole. The Chinese and other Eastern cultures have known for thousands of years that you cannot treat the body without treating the mind and the spirit. I feel that modern medicine needs to learn this! Some pain management clinics do have psychologists or other mental health professionals available to their patients but the vast majority in this country do not.
Most Family Practitioners and Internal Medicine Physicians are not equipped to handle any type of acute pain situation very well much less a chronic pain problem. They try and bless them they are the patients first line of defense in this poor maze of jumbled facade of errors that our medical care has become in the U.S. today. However, the statistics show that hardly any of the physicians that are in practice today are even aware of what pain protocols are! If they are ill equipped to treat the physical symptoms, how on Earth do they attempt to start to conquer the emotional and mental problems that chronic pain can cause?
As a chronic pain patient myself, I ask this hoping to get insight for myself and others as I do not have a good answer for this! I really wonder if there is a good answer in our standard of medical care today. If there is I for one do not know about it. I have found some others who are advocates for people who are in chronic pain.
There is a great site called The American Pain Foundation. If you have not visited them in the past, I highly recommend you give them a try. They have chats, a message board that you can get information and advice from Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants who work in Pain Management as well as support from other people who experience chronic pain. They also hold frequent chats with some well known people in the Pain Management world. You can sign up for email alerts for upcoming events or chats there.
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