The most common of these are back pain, head and those with musculoskeletal origin, but all patients with chronic pain and blame diabetes and various cancer and fibromyalgia.

Generally, pain is seen as way to warn the body of pathology and aggression being placed. But there is a limit to its effectiveness after the pain itself may become a pathology. These periods of persistent pain in the absence of stimulus trigger (the disease was cured aggression was removed, but the pain continues because nerves constantly send stimuli to the brain to be perceived as pain).

Below are some tips whose implementation can improve mood and improve mental tone of patients with such diseases.

Advantages positive centering.

It is mainly the techniques that allow the body to relax (which relieves pain). All voltage and tension in muscles disappears if a relaxing massage.

The effects of massage are strengthened by meditation techniques - Patient is taught how to breathe properly (inspired and expired items are very important if you become conscious acts).

Negative thoughts and stressful factors should be eliminated, even for a few hours of patient minds.

Relaxes the body from such exercises and so patients are advised to find methods that apply to their best.

Experts recommend techniques based on deep breathing: Patients are advised to seek a quiet place where you can relax, then a position where they feel comfortable. Need to imagine (and then set his eyes) a point in space, even under the nose. Its inspiration must be large and slow, just expire (must be expansion and abdomen, thorax, not just a deep breathing is beneficial).

Reduce daily stress and tension

It is shown that stress, depression, anxiety emotional tension and greatly increases the sensitivity of nociceptive stimuli to the body and finally pain. If patients learn to control it very diverse range of negative feelings, can find the way to chronic pain.

There are several techniques that can reduce and may promote relaxation, such as listening to soothing music (there are even CDs as music) or a relaxation method by imagining some quiet places that can create a feeling of comfort to the patient. Visualization techniques are known. For relaxation induced by it to be complete we recommend involving as many senses. For example, imagine that if the patient is large and should remember the sun, the noise of waves and seagulls, the way we feel the sand and smell the water.

Another useful technique is progressive muscle relaxation - focus on patient release tension and relax each muscle group separately. So much better able to realize the physical sensation induced relaxation (and compare it with that of strain). You can start by tension and relax muscles of the leg and then gradually can be active and involved in the exercise becoming more muscle groups.

Stimulation of endogenous endorphin

Endorphins are endogenous opioid produced by the gland pituitary and by hypothalamus during exercise and states of happiness and have a similar capacity to produce opioid analgesia and not feeling well. Analgesic effect occurs by blocking stimulation nocicieptive well as changing perception of pain.

Exercise recommended as near as stimulates production of endorphins can strengthen muscles, help control weight, reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease and help maintain a normal blood sugar (especially in patients with diabetes).

If patients wish to adopt a more active lifestyle are advised to consult your doctor about exercises you can do, because some may be contraindicated, depending on individual pathology. Such warnings are addressed in particular patients diabetic neuropathy or with significant heart problems.

Reducing alcohol consumption

Recent studies have demonstrated that for patients with chronic pain reduce alcohol is indeed positive and significantly improves quality of life. This discovery is due to the interaction between chronic pain and sleep (which affects him seriously disturbing nictemeral pace of many patients) and that alcohol aggravates these disorders.

Participation in group meetings with other patients with chronic pain

When patients participate in such meetings and can share their experience with others in the same condition feel less alone, get tips from other members of the group and thus can more easily move their suffering.

Also, experts recommend that patients try to talk regularly with a psychologist because depression is a psychological complication with serious repercussions on the patient's life.

Besides a competent person with experience, patients may learn techniques for coping with pain and eliminate the negative thoughts and feelings as first steps in adopting a more optimistic attitude about facing the pain. That have the power to seek advice from a psychologist is a sign of courage to be admired.

Avoiding smoking

Chronically ill patients are advised to avoid smoking because it would affect the entire body, especially aggravates vascular and heart disease. For a body undergoing smoking is just another attack which is to be constantly subjected to allocate resources to address it. Toxins tobacco and to eliminate their stress very much ask any body, more so one who must face and chronic diseases.

Daily monitoring of pain levels

To assess the effectiveness of treatment, the practitioner must know which was the evolution of pain between checkups:

- If there were exacerbation periods,

- If it got worse after maintenance activities,

- If the patient has noticed that the pain is relieved in various situations.

Recommend even as patients keep a diary to record and give a pain score that they faced that day (of the 1-10) to assess its intensity.

Also, if there were special activities during this time or if something happened that affected the intensity of pain (or exacerbating a lull-a), the patient is advised to pass this information on its agenda.

At each visit the doctor presented his agenda should the issue of specific recommendations for the future.

Familiarity with biofeedback techniques to decrease sensitivity to pain

By biofeedback is possible that patients consciously control various body functions. It may seem something extraordinary, but there is evidence that such techniques really work. In addition, there are hard learned.

Biofeedback is actually a form of alternative medicine that measures some physiological parameters (such as blood pressure heart rate, temperature, muscle tension) and transmits real-time patient results. Thus the patient becomes aware of everything happening in her body and then will direct power to control (psychological) some of those parameters. Attempts are in fact the patient gain control of autonomic nervous system. It seems that it appears after a few therapy sessions.

Pain relief Massage

Massage is considered to reduce stress and tension being placed on the body. By applying pressure on the major muscle groups can get immediate results especially back pain and neck pain.

Adopting a healthy diet

A balanced diet is very important in the body economy.

Vitamins and essential nutrients that it can perform many roles bring protection against cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia and gastrointestinal diseases, can keep weight under control and can control blood sugar levels.

Patients are advised to adopt a diet with less fat and less salt.

Experts' advice include:

- Fruit vegetables fresh

- Beans

- Peas,

- Lentils

- Whole grains,

- Dried fruit,

- Fat cheeses and lean meats (especially fish and chicken meat).

Spending free time fun

When patients focus solely on their pain and the feelings it induced, pain worsens. Therefore experts advise patients to fill their free time with fun activities, relaxing, thinking to distract them from disease.

Pain can not be avoided, it is true, but applying these practical recommendations, patients can regain control over their lives and enjoy a more active life without being deprived of both good just because of the pathology of suffering.