pain clinic

For those that suffer chronic pain for any reason, including arthritis, nerve damage, post surgery or recovery pain, back pain or any undiagnosed pain, a management plan is a must. Most often finding help for the pain usually only means one thing, painkillers, antiflams, or forbearance.

Many simply try to ignore their pain and try to continue the best they can. There is a better way however which can return stunning results, many of my clients report reduced pain, cessation of pain in certain areas, feel more relaxed and happy, stronger and more confident and most important more in control of their pain than ever before. Most of my clients come for energy therapy and are given meditation techniques or buy CDs to help manage their pain, so I thought it was time to have a workshop, where you can learn the necessary strategies for pain management

Chronic pain is ongoing so you need an ongoing solution, this pain clinic will give you simple methods that you can use at home on your own to reduce, if not completely free you of pain. Dorothy will teach you a number of meditation techniques for relaxation, stress management, and body relaxers that with ongoing use and practice become more effective, not less effective.

An enjoyable atmosphere where you will quickly discover Dorothy's style is relaxed and amusing to ensure your workshop is good fun and where necessary tailored to your specific needs.

Pain Management and Rehabilitation services information

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Research has provided support that Hypnosis is effective for reducing pain perception. (Hilgard and Hilgard 1983, Hilgard and LeBaron 1984, Nickelson, et. al. 1999 and Simon and Dahl 1999). Hypnosis provides effective intervention on a number of different levels. It is an effective means of inducing deep relaxation that is helpful in itself. It can use suggestion to create dissociative states that can result in analgesic reduction of pain, change the meaning or type of pain sensation, and help create lifestyle or attitudinal changes that can have a significant impact on reducing pain intensity. It is unfortunate that hypnosis has had bad publicity because it is relatively straightforward to do with a willing subject. Key issues to keep in mind with hypnosis include the importance of clarifying to the patient that they do not lose control of their mind and cannot to be made to do things that run counter to their belief or value systems. Trance is in fact a normal part of life and everyone is used to falling into a reverie at different times during moments of strong emotion, during exercise, during deep relaxation, during boredom, or while performing a repetitive task. Any previous experience of “reverie” can be remembered and used as a means of inducing a trance in the here and now. It does not require a great deal of time to help a person focus their attention on a concept or image and talk through a relaxation process that leads the patient into a trance.

Related areas include using visual imagery to distract the patient from their experience and to trigger internal states that are pleasant and which can help reduce pain by the release of neuropeptides associated with the more pleasant experiences being imagined. When using visual or other imagery to assist with relaxation it is a good rule of thumb to make it simple and use as many sensory descriptions that utilize as many of the 5 senses as possible. It is possible to start the process by having the patient describe a situation the actually experienced not only in terms of what happened but also in terms of what they felt, saw, heard and tasted as well as their emotional reaction. This starting point draws attention to the way that as a person accesses a memory that has positive associations they often feel a “sense” of the same experiences they had during the original experience. By focusing on the positive internal sense as opposed to the original situation it is possible to increase the intensity of the positive experience and then teach the patient how to utilize positive experience to inhibit pain or distress.