This site has a unique feature of managing pain record.It
allows the user to share his pain,which makes the person to
forget half of his pain.Here I really want to focus
on "yoga" as a alternetive therapy for people suffering
from severe pain.I have seen lot of people getting cured of
their pain just by doing simple exercises.Please include
yoga.
Comments
Yoga and Sciatica
Yoga stretching combined with a non-invasive, comprehensive sciatica treatment has made me a new women...I use a center for total back care that combines yoga moves with disc decompression therapy.
Slow Deep Stretching
For years, I've suffered from stress-induced back and shoulder pain. I used to take numerous over-the-counter oral (e.g. Doan's, Tylenol) and topical (e.g. IcyHot, Salonapas) medications with mixed results. I've incorporated some of the principals of yoga into my own form of pain-reducing stretches. The premise of these stretching exercises is to identify areas of my back, shoulders and neck that are tight and tense. I gradually stretch or contort my body so that the pain in a specific area becomes accentuated and than I hold that position while concentrating on my breathing. It's amazing how after a few minutes of holding the position, the pain begins to subside as the muscles lengthen and become less contracted. After a few moments, I return to a neutral position and notice that the tension and attendant pain in that area has been released. Than I tackle a new area of my back or shoulders. After 30 minutes of doing these stretches, I feel like I have just experienced a soothing back massage.
yoga helps me
oftentimes the muscles that were tight feel sore afterwards from stretching, but it's a different pain and does subside by later in the day or the next. It is important to develop a basic routine and adjusting it as necessary. It's still the "no pain, no gain" type of thing - stretching out muscles that are contracted is going to cause pain afterwards, once you get past that and keep doing the stretching it keeps the muscles legnthened and that leads to less pain (since they aren't contracted) and more range of motion.
Sciatica
I have had sciatic issues for about six years, and yoga was the worst. I'm not sure why, but after yoga, I can barely stand, and my back and hip are licked up for days. Other forms of more active exercise have been wonderful, though. Even something as simple as walking a half hour a day keeps me almost pain-free, and if I can get in three or four sessions of exercise a day, of about ten or fifteen minutes each, and keep my weight down a little, I almost never have to take anything for pain and usually sleep through the night and can get right up in the mornings.
The Breath
I agree. In dealing with my own pain, I have found that one of the most basic exercises taught in the practice of yoga, the breath, can be of great assistance when one is trying to manage his or her pain. One of the best things I have learned to do for myself is to close my eyes and focus solely on the breath. This may not make the pain go away completely, but focusing on something other than the pain, helps to reduce it, and make it more manageable.