Pain and injury Chronic Pain and Injury
Chronic pain is one of the most difficult conditions to live with: it is often not clearly correlated with a physical cause, it is invisible to others, yet it can be completely debilitating, affecting everyday function, psychological health, and relationships with others.
The context of pain
When it comes to treating any kind of pain, it is important to recognize that pain is not simply a physical phenomenon. Although pain often has a recognizable physical cause, both the pain of injury and chronic pain are maintained by neurological and cognitive mechanisms. As soon as injury has occurred, the body enters into a state of shock. When this reaction is in proportion to the injury, healing occurs quickly and completely; but the state of shock often becomes counterproductive and lead to excessive inflammation that doesn’t resolve quickly or completely. At other times pain arises without any physical trigger, which may indicate that enresolved emotional issues are present. Unless those issues are dealt with, the pain — which in such cases is merely the bodily manifestation of underlying emotional or spiritual issues — will not be resolved. It is important to go beyond physiotherapy, massage, and other technique which address the physical body alone, as these will often be ineffective or take a long time to achieve their effect. The following techniques which I use all address physical pain by tapping deeper than the physical body into the core of the person:
- Classical homeopathy has a wide selection of remedies used in acute and chronic conditions. It is a sophisticated system able to address a huge variety of conditions, alone or in combination with other techniques such as the following ones.
- Bowen Technique is exceptional for reducing the shock of injury and optimizing physical recovery. It is a form of physical medicine, but through the communication with the central nervous system achieved during treatment it is able to release underlying tension found deeper than the physical body.
- Emotional Freedom Technique can be used for the treatment of pain by using acupuncture meridians (without needles) to neutralize the organism-wide imbalance associated with the experience of pain.
Recovery
Progress in recovery from chronic pain cannot be predicted from the nature or extent of the pain itself. Sometimes a single Bowen treatment can release pain of many years’ duration, whereas at other times pain since a recent, small injury may take a long time to address. Again, what the case will be in any individual has to do with whether the imbalance causing it is merely physical (e.g., a muscle in spasm) waiting to be released with the proper technique, or whether the pain represents lifelong or even trans-generational baggage on the spiritual plane.
