Are Your Nursing Assistants in the Know About Pain Management

Unrelieved pain is a serious health problem. When pain is poorly managed, complications can develop, such as: slow-healing wounds, anxiety and depression, loss of strength and mobility, a lack of interest in eating and drinking, disturbed sleep patterns, thoughts of suicide and…needless suffering. Every client has the right to expect relief from pain. And, because nurse aides spend so much time with their clients, they need a solid understanding of pain and how to manage it. You can start that process by sharing the following information with your nursing assistants.

What Is Pain?

Pain IS:

* A sensation that hurts-causing discomfort, distress or even agony.
* An uncomfortable feeling that tells you something may be wrong in your body.
* A message that travels between the brain and nerve cells throughout the body.
* Difficult to define because the sensation is different for each individual.

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What is Interventional Pain Management (IPM)

· Interventional Pain Management are some minimally invasive procedures which gives permanentlong term pain relief.

· It fills the gap between pharmacologic management of pain & more invasive operative procedure.

According to definition The discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain and related disorders by the application of interventional techniques (Minimally invasive procedures including percutaneous precision needle placement, with placement of drugs in targeted areas.) in managing sub-acute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatments.

The Truth About Pain Management Techniques

Today there are many options being used as pain management techniques.

Early in my career when I was a physical therapy aide I discovered some very interesting things about pain management treatment.

I noticed that many of the most commonly used techniques like heat, ice, ultrasound, TENS (electronic muscle stimulation), massage, medications, were only providing patients temporary pain relief.

But, as soon as they tried to return to their active lifestyles it wasn’t long before the painful symptoms came roaring back.

Pain Management with Self-Hypnosis

I tend to look upon pain management and healing as inseparable and see no reason why stop only on using self-hypnosis to manage pain, when you can successfully use it to bring about healing. After all, pain is a messenger letting you know that some part of your body requires special attention, and often it is not advisable just getting rid of this helpful signal without taking care of the underlying problem.

Traditional hypnosis has been originally used more for pain management than for healing. This is understandable since it was popularized by medical doctors who used it to help individuals undergo painless surgeries at a time before chemical anesthetics were discovered. After the discovery of chemical anesthetics, hypnosis for the most part fell out of use in favor of chemicals. There are times, though, when even chemicals are not helping, and when it is useful knowing hypnosis.

Modern Pain Management Techniques

Pain is a massive problem in our society, in fact it is estimated that at any given time, around one third of the population are in pain. Pain of any type is the most frequent reason for physician consultation. It is a major symptom in many medical conditions, significantly interfering with quality of life and general functioning.

Management is therefore an extremely important part of health care because people forced to continue living with extreme pain often become depressed and have poor treatment outcomes.
Some types of pain are still not really understood with as many as a third of cases having unknown origins.