Questions and doubts about one’s life up to now, possibly feelings of guilt.Experiences of loss, e.g., loss of job, loss of autonomy, loss of social relationships, loss of economic security, loss of physical integrity, etc.Depression and despair regarding one’s life situation and the disease.Fears, e.g., of the consequences of a disease, of dying and death, of social or economic losses.Infections or local inflammatory processes cause throbbing pain.Contractions of smooth or striated muscles lead to spasmodic pain. Muscular tension leads to tension pain.Tumors or metastases exert pressure on tissue and nerves and/or damage them.Pain triggering and pain intensifying factors in palliative medicine In view of this, we adapt the temperature of an arnica compress, for example, to the type of pain. Conversely, inflammatory pain improves through cold and cool external applications. This therapeutic effect of warmth is harnessed in external applications and warmth-enhancing medications. Many patients report on the pain-relieving effect of warmth on tension pain in the musculoskeletal system. Warmth returns the sensory organization to a healthier physiological functioning in the organism, allowing the patient’s accustomed mobility to return and convulsive pain in the patient’s musculature to subside. Motor-metabolic system: inflammatory pain Neurosensory system: sharp, delineated pain, neuralgic pain, neuropathic pain, convulsive pain (For more on functional threefolding, see. Colicky pain, in contrast, has a rhythmic pattern. Pain qualitiesĭifferent qualities of pain may be described, which provides information about possible causes and triggers. They relate to the different types of activity: sharp neuropathic pain has to do with the neurosensory system inflammatory pain is related to the motor-metabolic system. Anthroposophic medications help relieve the patient of the disease process that results in pain while also reconnecting his or her soul and spirit with the organism in a way that corresponds to healthy physiological functioning. Pain is caused by the sensory organization (soul body) intervening too deeply in the patient’s life organization and physical body. Treatment of the weakened life organization needs to be considered as an essential element. For example, it is important to ensure good, regenerative sleep when treating chronic pain. The usual analgesics as well as the medications suggested below are used in anthroposophic pain therapy. Pain is an experience of consciousness in an unphysiological place – a kind of displaced consciousness. The patient’s sensory organization becomes active in a way that leads to different pain qualities such as burning, throbbing or cramp-like pain. The experience of pain reduces the patient’s life forces. Many patients complain of exhaustion and weakness and want therapeutic support for their life organization. Analgesics are designed to minimize or eliminate the experience of pain. However, patients do not just want pain to be “blocked” (symptom treatment), they also wish to address the cause of the pain or the underlying disease. They may also experience pain relief through movement, warmth or external applications and they are looking for therapies that support their inherent health-bringing forces. Medication in Anthroposophic Pain TherapyĪcute and chronic pain belong to the fundamental experiences of life and accompany numerous illnesses. We treat pain with peripherally effective, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or centrally effective opiates or opioids after diagnostic clarification – usually in accordance with the World Health Organization’s pain ladder. However, analgesics are associated with adverse drug reactions which may restrict their use. In addition, chronic pain patients require integrative therapy, since these drugs alone often do not lead to enough improvement. Anthroposophic Medicine can make a significant therapeutic contribution to pain therapy.
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