Other Therapies
Psychological Therapy
Chronic pain can have profound psychological effects, including feelings of hopelessness, anger, sadness, and even despair. These feelings can interfere with your ability to perform your job or your normal daily activities.Psychological therapy can help you to cope with the effects of pain on you and those around you. There are also specific psychological techniques that can actually help to reduce pain. Your treatment plan may include the following psychological therapies:
- Individual and group counseling
- Biofeedback
- Relaxation techniques
- Self-hypnosis
- Visual imaging
- Learning or conditioning techniques
Rehabilitation Therapy
The goal of rehabilitation therapy is to help you resume as active and healthy a lifestyle as possible. Rehabilitation therapies fall into two major categories:
- Physical therapy, which may include exercise, tissue manipulation, and other treatments focused on maximizing function in specific body parts
- Occupational therapy, which is focused on techniques that prepare you to work or your normal daily routine
- Other Therapies
- "Non-medical" techniques
o Physician-administered acupuncture
o Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
o Microelectrode nerve stimulation (MENS)