Tell me, how do you feel about the different therapy modalities available? Do you think one is better than other??
Try some yoga for pain relief! What do you think about yoga for pain relief??
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Hello, I do not have much experience with yoga. I imagine it is the movement of the body, stretching and mindfulness that may help many people with body aches and illness. It is a form of exercise that is more relaxing than jumping around or straining oneself.
ReplyDeleteI hadan article on the "Ethics of Suffering" it is an interesting concept analysis of patient narrations of their experiences with suffering in life. Since pain is one aspect of suffering I thought you may find it interesting. After all to "be a patient means to suffer. Illness creates an alien world for its citizens" (p. 64). Ones' previous experiences often are useless when they experience pain. They often are at a loss of understanding.
Letting a patient narrate or share their unique experience is a way to enhance their dignity. "Being a professional implies being able to remain in the diversity symbolized in the wordless meeting with patients' face." (p. 65). We want to understand to help them in any way we can and even be vulnerable to our patient's suffering. How many of us have cried with our patients?
"It is our professional, ethical and moral responsibility to respond to whole patients- within the context of their story- and become their advocates." What we hear and do with the stories is what matters. Patients are inviting us into their narrative which is their source of suffering. They are the witnesses to their own suffering and experience and their relationship with their illness.
Nurses in many of their research studies involve many narratives of patient's collecting qualitative narratives to find themes
I hope you'll be able to sometime read the article.
Raholm, M. (2008). Uncovering the ethics of suffering using a narrative approach. Nursing Ethics, 15 (1),62-71.
I suffer from chronic pain - some days I have to limp to the door when I get out of bed. Movement does seem to ease the pain but then after a night working 12 hours, I feel like I have been body slammed by a gorilla. Sleep works if I get a lot of it (which is rare). Advil works if I take a lot of it but it kills my stomach. Doctors think it is in my head but they are not in my body. Mostly I bear with it and keep on trucking. I have been wanting to try yoga - when I finally get some time.
ReplyDeleteJennifer you stated "It is our professional, ethical and moral responsibility to respond to whole patients- within the context of their story- and become their advocates" I appreciate your passion and wished more nurses feel and think the way you do. Unfortunately most research being done today supports the notion that nurses lacked knowledge and understanding of opioid addiction, equivalent dosing, properties of opioids, and differences in acute and chronic pain.
ReplyDeleteKelly thanks for sharing about your experience with pain. Many doctors fail to do the correct diagnostic tests for the correct treatment. You need to keep asking your doctor for better diagnostic tests. An MRI or CAT scan does not always show a herniated disk or a bulging disk. Another test called a Diskogram where die is injected directly into the disk can help improve diagnosis. Also when you have time, check out a new type of yoga called Viniyoga which is specifically designed for people with back pain.
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