Pain Management

| February 18, 2010
Pain Management featured forum

Pain Management featured forumAn MBF Foundation report conducted by Access Economics has estimated that chronic pain costs the Australian economy $34 billion per annum.

One in five Australians will suffer chronic pain in their lifetime yet up to 80% living with this debilitating condition are missing out on treatment that could improve their health and quality of life. People with acute pain (after surgery or trauma) or cancer pain are effectively treated only 50% of the time.

Improved pain management needs to be recognised as a social and economic imperative.

Expert and community feedback is currently being sought on the Draft National Pain Strategy. Some of the key issues up for discussion are: recognising pain as a disease,  destigmatising pain, recognising pain as the fifth vital sign and how to help people better manage their pain.

The National Pain Summit will be held on Thursday March 11, 2010 at Parliament House in Canberra. The Summit will bring together Australia’s leading authorities in pain medicine, other health professionals and consumer groups representing people living with pain. The strategy, to be finalised at the Summit, will be aligned to Federal Government national health and hospital reform initiatives; particularly in relation to preventative health and the management of chronic disease.

Open Forum will be featuring the ideas of some of the speakers and delegates in this online discussion forum dedicated to Pain Management. To participate, simply follow the links below to read the related blogs and login to leave a comment. You can also email us your own contribution or contributor suggestion, or phone +61 2 8303 2430.

This Open Forum Feature on Pain Management is brought to you thanks to the kind support of the MBF Foundation.

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  1. foggy

    March 25, 2010 at 11:06 am

    How to help people better manage their pain

     

    with pain there is often co-morbidity.this means more medication.there is a wide range of patients from young to the elderly;who have a problem swallowing oral medicine.coming down to nitty gritty,this is quite nerve wracking a problem for the patient and his family.at homes, often wrong report is given to the family doctor,due to shame only,patient or attendant failure in adminstering proper dosage.
    it is a crying need that medicine would be available easily, easily everywhere, tailor made to suit individual needs.
    small, compact size and shape, easy to swallow oral presentation.since pain medication has to be given with proton pump inhibitors, often, to protect the gi Epithelial lining;it would be super if combined, long acting analgesics+inhibitor drugs, are massively produced and available as time release capsules.
    i will go so far as to suggest an ultra modern pharmacy ,each attached to all pain management clinics, which are permitted to combine most palliative and even chemotherapeutic medicine with pain medicine legally;and make capsules and pill tailor made to individual needs.more research is inevitably needed for pharmacy finesse to give suitable size, shape,and consistency to the single Dose medicine remix without losing its efficacy or encountering compatibility issues.this research will really pay back in gains soon!i vote that this research be given topmost priority in the pain management systems.

    • Trev

      December 27, 2010 at 9:34 pm

      How to help people self heal pain

      Your body has the unparalled ability to heal itself if given half a chance. Research conducted by the US Dep of Health & Human Services reveals that an astounding 70 percent of all illness is actually avoidable. Instead of engaging in mortal combat with the enemy, most of us can sidestep the battle completely simply by pumping up our immune system. Unblocking & moving energy through cellular vibration is the key.

      Biology defines the cell as the smallest independently functioning unit in the body. A cell consists of membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, DNA, RNA, mitochondria, & other organelles. Every internal organ & tissue in the body consists of cells. Living cells have various functions, such as protection, secretion, immune duties, reproduction, absorption, & elimination. . In addition to performing their various functions, cells vibrate. They expand, contract, spin, wobble, twist, & rock nonstop, like peripatetic teenagers. Some movements are consistent, others random. But any & all of this activity radiates energy.

      Although Western medicine does study biochemical changes in cells it doesnt pay much attention to cell vibration or cell energy with respect to health. Yet in Soul Mind Body Medicine created by Dr Zhi Gang Sha getting & staying – healthy starts right here. Matter inside the cells & energy outside the cells are constantly transforming, each into each other. When a person is healthy this transformation between matter & energy remains in relative balance. Any factor that causes an imbalance in this transformation results in illness. When cells expand, they breath in the energy around them & transform this energy into internal matter. When cells contract, they breath out , thereby transforming the matter inside them to energy around them.

      Remember how you could feel the heat when you held your palms very close together? What you were feeling was the transformation of matter from inside the cells of your palms into energy outside the cells of your palms. Its like a dance that’s happening inside all of you all the time. Every once in a while, however, elements such as bacteria, viruses, anger, worry, grief, depression ( western medicines major cause of illness & disease ) or accidents can throw a kink into this dynamic twostep by creating an imbalance in the transformation matter in the cells & energy outside the cells. Thats when you get sick.

      To get well , you must restore that balance. To stay well, you must increase your energy so that it’s less vulnerable to those elements that can affect it. Overactice cells however, will create too much energy in one area of your body. When accumulated energy grows too great to be transmitted to other parts of the body, a blockage occurs. Like a river rises after heavy rain (in different parts of Australia now) when the water is too great for the channel the water starts to spill over its banks. Water then pools on the surrounding land stagnates. Diseases start spreading.

      Energy can accumulate in the body in much the same way. When energy doesnt flow properly in the body condiitions for poor health are established. Overvibrating cells may result in acute or chronic pain, inflamation, hemorrhage, heart attack, stroke, cysts, unusual growths, tumors, & hyperactivity of the organs.

      Acupuncture, yoga & tai chi constitute ways to restore energy balance by stretching & moving our body to dispense energy blockages. But there are other ways to move energy- through hand positions that use simple principles from physics, mantras that stimulate vibration internally, visualisation, & more. Simple wisdom is the most powerful wisdom.

      Check Dr Zhi Gangs Sha’s "Soul Mind Body Medicine" book where there are 100 conditions /sicknesses that include 4 Power Techniques to self heal

      If you want more information on the removal of chronic pain you may contact me for details of regular workshops and events in Australia. Email me trev3396815@gmail.com

       

      • sranaseo

        April 9, 2011 at 5:38 pm

        Thanks a lot

        hey, just few months back I had an accepdent from then I am getting pain in my leg as well as whole body. It was a motor cycle accedent and fall down from 40 fit high. Nothing was broken but since the accedent I am facing some pain problem. The samething is happining to my wife

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