Pain Management Techniques
Many drug addictions begin from a prescription to painkillers. They develop an addiction while taking doctor-prescribed opiates trying to treat their pain from medical procedures. Pain takes many people into the darkness of opiate addiction. If you or someone you love suffer chronic pain and painkiller addiction, you need the right help for both of these problems. That help starts with addiction recovery and includes pain management techniques for a better quality of life.
What is Chronic Pain with Addiction?
Chronic pain causes many emotional responses. You suffer ongoing fear of your pain, as well as the general daily discomfort it brings. Pain limits your life, also causing depression, anxiety, and feelings of helplessness. You miss your old life and activities and want those back so much.
Although pain is a physical sensation, your mind plays a major role. The perception of pain varies from person to person. What bothers you as pain may not bother someone else at all. These varying degrees of pain make treating it difficult.
Access to prescription painkillers made your life easier, at first. But soon even those pain pills stopped working. Soon, you found yourself stuck in painkiller addiction. You also did things you know as wrong, just to keep from feeling your pain again.
You fear sobriety for many reasons, too. Top of the list is your fear of living the rest of your life in pain. But with the right chronic pain recovery program in rehab, you do not have to live with chronic pain. You simply need the right knowledge for healthy pain management.
That pain management starts with an end to your addiction. From there, you learn new techniques for coping with pain. You also gain empowerment toward reducing or even eliminating the pain that drove you into substance abuse.
Learning Pain Management Techniques
In a pain recovery and rehab program, you learn pain management techniques. These techniques include ways of coping with your chronic pain. Kemah Palms offers a number of these programs to our patients to help them to make a better future for themselves. Some of these therapies include:
- Massage therapy
- Meditation therapy
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- Family therapy
- Acupuncture therapy
- Aftercare program
- Nutritional counseling
- Visual imagery and distraction
- Physical fitness and physical therapy
Managing your pain aligns with managing your addiction. Both of these conditions require healing of your body, mind, and spirit. Through this healing, you gain insight into what works best for your own coping skills. In your chronic pain, these coping skills help you maintain life balance just as they do for addiction.
Throughout your journey into addiction after chronic pain, you have learned some important lessons. First among these lessons is that no pill truly provides an answer to your pain. So finding what does work for you is your new journey. That learning forms the foundation for hope for your better, more engaged and healthier future.
Healing Body, Mind and Spirit at Kemah Palms
True healing includes methods for your body, mind, and spirit. This takes work. But a quality rehab program providing the right pain management techniques can provide true healing and recovery.
In Kemah, Texas your pain recovery and addiction treatment take place at Kemah Palms Recovery®. There you learn about your addiction and the chronic pain that led you to substance abuse. You gain the pain management techniques and coping skills you need for lasting recovery and a brighter life ahead. Call Kemah Palms now today for more information about how to get free of addiction and chronic pain. Life without pain is possible. Make the call today and take the steps towards recovery.