No one likes pain. Unpleasant feeling, pain is the body's reaction to physical illness, injury or mental illness. Pain generally falls into two categories: acute and chronic. The former suddenly occurred due to tissue injury. Anything that damages the body's tissues, surgery, trauma, or cancer, can cause harm. Heart rate and blood pressure usually increase in acute pain. But once the cause of the pain is removed, the pain usually disappears. Chronic pain, usually associated with chronic disease, lasts longer and lacks clear causes. Chronic lower back pain, chronic headache or cancer pain fall into this category.

Pain management strategies usually depend on the nature of the pain, whether the pain is acute or chronic. Medical methods, psychological methods or alternative therapies are often used to treat pain. In the case of short-term acute pain caused by trauma, over-the-counter standard drugs, herbal or natural and alternative drugs can be used. Chronic pain is difficult to resolve because it lasts longer and is more complicated.

Medical methods can be divided into two main methods: drug therapy and surgery. Analgesics can reduce or eliminate pain without affecting consciousness. Psychotropic drugs act on the brain and affect the emotional state of the patient. However, attention should be paid to their long-term effects. Another method used is nerve block, in which a drug is injected around the appropriate nerve to prevent pain information from reaching the brain.

The reason behind the disruption of neuropathic surgery is that if the pathway is broken, the pain information will not pass. Although not a true surgical procedure, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation [TENS] stimulates the skin area of ​​the pain site with the help of an electrical stimulator and replaces the pain information with a stinging sensation.

Although useful in some cases of acute pain, acupuncture may not be very effective in chronic pain. Some people advocate the use of hypnosis to relieve pain.

Pain management was originally published on Spring