How Pain can impact your Emotional Wellness
How Pain can impact your Emotional Wellness
At any age and at many times throughout our lives, pain affects everyone. Around 80% percent of doctor visits are due to pain. Current estimates put that 50,000,000 Americans experience chronic pain.
- Pain in the back
- Headaches
- carpal tunnel syndrome
- osteoarthritis
- Neck and shoulder pain
- fibromyalgia
There are many ways to feel the negative effects of chronic pain. Anyone who has experienced muscle aches, pain in the shoulder or back, or temporary injuries has probably noticed the connection with negative emotions like anxiety or stress. If this is not addressed, it can have negative long-term consequences. It can affect your overall health, and get in the way of your daily tasks and responsibilities at work.
Not only that, but pain can also interfere with your active lifestyle. This could prevent you from doing the things which make you happy - the things that make you, you!
Pain is a multidimensional and subjective experience that each person experiences. You may find that your pain is not limited to your emotions. It can cause you anxiety or depression. This means that your emotional baggage might be causing your pain or causing emotional distress. Talk about a mess to unravel!
There is strong evidence to support the use of massage therapy in order to alleviate pain, and even prevent severe cases from developing.
How could massage help manage pain and reduce negative effects?
A 2016 systematic analysis and meta-analysis determined that massage therapy might be beneficial to treating low-back pain.
It is also important to mention that massage therapy can be used for more than pain relief. This is because it can also help to manage anxiety or depression. In fact, massage therapy is requested by many patients for anxiety and stress reduction.
Massage is a winning-win-win solution for any kind of pain.
This is no secret. According to American Massage Therapy Association 2019, 21% of adult Americans experienced a massage. 52% reported that they received it for a medical or physical reason, and 26% reported that they did it for relaxation and stress management.
Massage therapy can play an important role in the management of pain and discomfort. That's all good. There is absolutely no downside. There are few side effects to massage and it has been proven safe and effective.
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