Pain CornerStore: Body Involved

Minimally invasive outpatient treatments to seal fractures of the vertebrae caused by osteoporosis include vertebroplasty

 and kyphoplasty. Vertebroplasty uses three-dimensional imaging to help a doctor guide a fine needle into the vertebral body.

A glue-like epoxy is injected, which quickly hardens to stabilize and strengthen the bone and provide immediate pain relief. In

kyphoplasty, prior to injecting the epoxy, a special balloon is inserted and gently inflated to restore height to the bone and reduce spinal deformity.

In the most serious cases, when the condition does not respond to other therapies, surgery may relieve pain caused by back problems

 or serious musculoskeletal injuries. Some surgical procedures may be performed in a doctor’s office under local anesthesia, while others

 require hospitalization. It may be months following surgery before the patient is fully healed, and he or she may suffer permanent loss of

 flexibility. Since invasive back surgery is not always successful, it should be performed only in patients with progressive neurologic disease

 or damage to the peripheral nerves.

• Discectomy is one of the more common ways to remove pressure on a nerve root from a bulging disc or bone spur. During the
• procedure the surgeon takes out a small piece of the lamina (the arched bony roof of the spinal canal) to remove the obstruction
•  below.
• Foraminotomy is an operation that “cleans out” or enlarges the bony hole (foramen) where a nerve root exits the spinal canal.
• Bulging discs or joints thickened with age can cause narrowing of the space through which the spinal nerve exits and can press on
• the nerve, resulting in pain, numbness, and weakness in an arm or leg. Small pieces of bone over the nerve are removed through a
• small slit, allowing the surgeon to cut away the blockage and relieve the pressure on the nerve.
• IntraDiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET) uses thermal energy to treat pain resulting from a cracked or bulging spinal disc. A
• special needle is inserted via a catheter into the disc and heated to a high temperature for up to 20 minutes. The heat thickens and
• seals the disc wall and reduces inner disc bulge and irritation of the spinal nerve.................

 Many of the Ultimate Wellness sessions or programs

 are instructed by a physician Dr. Ethel Maria Wright. 

 She  is an amazing pillar of wellness!  Her own unique manner

of maintaining fitness ........ read more here and start living the life you deserve today

Congratulations, Dr. Wright, on your BOOK and DVD.  I am looking forward to working with you in the future.

 When you suffer from chronic pains, everybody you know suffers too.  You probably don't realize the true extent your presence impacts the lives of your friends and co-workers.  When you are in chronic pain, they are too.  They want you to find a remedy for chronic pain so that you can return to take your rightful place amongst them.  The thing to remember is that even though you may not have put too much stock in your impact on their lives, any impact that you make on somebody else is huge.  Most of the time your circle of influence surrounds you and doesn't extend too much further than that but when you are a part of something, people come to depend on you, to like you, to expect that you will carry your share of the load.  Maybe it was your dependability that chronic pain has taken away from you.  Or perhaps is was the way you could solve a problem at the drop of a hat that your chronic pain flareups have taken away or reduced in some manner.  Whatever it was, not having a remedy for chronic pain, a way to tolerate you chronic pain, to stop the chronic pain flareups, or whatever, it is stopping you from being where others have gotten accustomed to you being.

Don't undersell yourself and your impact on the lives of others.  It's probably understandable that we sell our impact on others short of what it is when we talk about co-workers and even friends but to short sell our impact on our family, well that is another matter entirely.  It's probably also one of the greatest causes of additional stress that people who are suffering with chronic pains, have to live with.  The stress.  Addressing the stress we feel when we think of our family and how not being able to stop the chronic pain and get rid of the pain flareups is making our life operate below our normal function level.  The stress of believing you have let your family down somehow because you are struggling to overcome the chronic pain, to fight through the pain flareups and to find a way to tolerate the pain so that you can be the wife or husband you once were, or to be the dad you had planned to be for your children.  Stress is a contributor to your pain.  Stress makes it harder for  you to use your mind to fight thru the  pain flareups and to keep your body ready to fight the chronic pain each and everyday that you are suffering.  Eliminating the stress caused by feeling guilty when you shouldn't is one major step in being able to tolerate chronic pain and to ease your pain flareups faster and better than you have before.

What I've done to combat my chronic pain, is to develop a system.  It's a multimodal system.  No, not a multimodal system like the pain management doctors use, increasing the combination of drugs you would take and the frequency of dosages.  I'm not a doctor so my multimodal system is generated for me by attacking chronic pains wholly.  When my body is in pain, my mind is in pain.  When my mind is in pain, my emotional system is in pain.  When my emotional system is in pain, my social system is in pain.  When my social system is in pain, my life is in pain.  I don't believe I would be doing as well as I am if it wasn't for my multimodal system.  I am committed to my multimodal system for helping me tolerate my chronic pain better and to deal with my chronic pain flareups.  That's why I want to share my experiences with  people.  I want other chronic pain sufferers, the spouses of people who suffer chronic pain, the children of people who suffer pain flareups and the social circle of people who are living life in chronic pain, to know that they can find hope for themselves because if I can have a multimodal system that helps me tolerate my chronic pain, then they can too.

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