Pain Management Program

Accelerate your body's natural healing powers and learn the ability to block pain signals and increase your pain threshold.

Injuries And Chronic Pain

Are nagging injuries and chronic pain slowing you down?

The feeling of physical pain can detract you from your overall feeling of well-being and can have negative effects on your performance. When pain is experienced; suddenly every part of daily life becomes defined by it, your actions, activities, relationships, finances, diet, thoughts, emotions and self-image.

Psychological factors can also be an important contributor to the intensity of pain and to the disability associated with chronic pain. Pain and stress are intimately related. There may be a vicious cycle in which pain causes stress, and stress, in turn, causes more pain. Mind/body approaches address these issues and provide a variety of benefits, including a greater sense of control, improved coping skills, decreased pain intensity and distress, changes in the way pain is perceived and understood, and increased sense of well being and relaxation.

If you have any of the following conditions, acute or chronic…
Low back pain
Rheumatoid arthritis
Osteoarthritis
Migraine and tension headaches
Joint pain
Fibromyalgia
Lupus
Spinal cord injuries
Irritable bowel syndrome
Crohn's disease
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Nerve injuries
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
or numerous other conditions

there IS help for you!

A Natural Solution To Control Your Pain

Euphoria offers a very comprehensive 'Mind/Body Approach' program that combines methods such as: Acupuncture and Solution Focused Brief Therapy using Hypnotherapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming and Behavioural Modification Strategies (e.g. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) in the management of your pain. Our Integrated Mind-Body Solution takes into consideration latest research on pain and incorporates the most effective mind-and-body techniques into our Pain Management Program.

The EUPHORIA PAIN MANAGEMENT PROGRAM aims at addressing the physical and psychological component of pain. It can help a patient look at ways in which their attitudes and feelings contribute to inaccurate and unrealistic expectations, and can help them find a more realistic and balanced view of their problem. It also includes the teaching of life skills and coping skills that can assist the patient in productive problem solving and the prevention or minimization of future pain episodes and to build a sense of control over one's condition. Included also, is educational information to diffuse feelings of fear and helplessness, and various types of relaxation approaches, which can help people in chronic pain lower their overall level of arousal, decrease muscle tension, control distress, and decrease pain, depression and disability.

This program looks at the entire person, not just the one part that hurts, thus balances various parts of the body together. For someone suffering from pain. It is stressful and can wear a person down causing irritability, stress, tension and insomnia. If you're feeling pain and are not performing activities that are doing any further damage to the area where you feel pain, this program will help you reduce this pain to a manageable level. It incorporates natural ways for you to also increase your pain threshold and ultimately reduce or eliminate your reliance on pain medications.

How Pain Works

As uncomfortable as pain can be, it serves a positive purpose – It is a protective mechanism and warning signal that your body has been or might become injured.

Pain itself is not a diagnosis, but rather an indication or warning that there is a problem somewhere in the body. Many times the exact location of pain points to where the problem is, as in the case of elbow pain above an inflamed tendon. But in other situations the site of pain may be related to problems far away, as in leg pain resulting from a herniated disk pushing on a nerve in the back.

The intensity of the pain usually indicates or warns how severe the problem is. And the circumstances surrounding the onset of the pain are just as important.

The characteristics of pain give important information about what is causing the body to send this signal. Once noticed, it is important to address the underlying problem that forced the body to send a pain message, not just turn down the discomfort. Otherwise the body will send out other warning signals until the core problem is corrected.

Pain can become long-term, and unfortunately, millions of people find themselves trapped in a situation where pain changes from a temporary alert system to a chronic and what seems permanent state of being.

Chronic pain is often caused by ineffective or harmful lifestyle habits, but also emotions connected to an injury. From this it can be seen that the mind-body aspect to pain processing is not all physical. The way human beings feel and experience pain - is not by a standardised rule.

Understanding how pain affects the interface between our physiology and emotions and how pain signals are relayed throughout the body are an important factor in the pain management equation.

Psychological factors can help open the pain gates more widely, or can close them partially or even totally. Stress, depression, and anxiety can make pain feel even worse, while a calm, focused, positive outlook can help close the pain gate, keeping the pain signals from being felt, but overriding the fight-flight response related to trauma can our block healing.

Suggestions will be offered for individual lifestyle improvements regarding exercise, supplements and diet, sleeping and stress management techniques to help a person improve health and decrease pain.

This program offers an extremely powerful and effective approach to treat pain because it decreases pain levels as it stimulates the body’s healing response. Pain is resolved by affecting several pain pathways and healing responses at the same time:

 • Raise endorphin levels and diminish the nervous system’s pain    response
 • Decrease inflammation and swelling
 • Relax muscles and stop spasms
 • Increase circulation to the local area

You Have Nothing to Lose Except Your Pain

Learn how pain works in great detail, and develop essential skills to reverse the course of pain as you experience a unique combination of pain management techniques that also accelerate the speed of your natural healing abilities.

It is not a "creation" of healing powers, but instead removing the blocks that have been getting in the way of your natural ability to heal faster. An additional benefit is that it helps to strengthen your immune system, which is a prerequisite to accelerated healing.

This program is designed to help anyone recover from an injury at an accelerated pace. Your ability to heal faster from chronic injuries can provide you with a greater sense of well-being.

What You Can Expect to Gain

• Be guided through a powerful method called substitution. This is
  the same method used in dental procedures to numb areas
  worked on without anaesthesia.
• Learn the ability to subconsciously control your pain threshold.
• Be able to control the magnitude of pain.
• Learn about the "dorsal horn," and how to close the pain
  gateway.
• In many cases, the program can virtually eliminate your
  perception of pain associated with activities that are not harming
  the affected area.
• Notice a pleasant feeling of relaxation, as you let go of anxiety
  and tension.
• Learn to map and assess your imporovement and understand
  the current state of your pain.
• Control pain by influencing the parasympathetic nervous system
  with breathing.
• Manage pain by becoming aware of the present.
• Use imagery to transform your experience of pain.
• Turn down your pain level to a bearable setting in the brain's
  control room.
• Create a more effective response to medication by stimulating
  the brain's analgesic response.
• Understand how pain signals are relayed throughout the body,
  and how they can be stopped

Manage Stress Effectively

Stress has been linked to most health problems, including heart attacks and strokes. In fact, WebMD estimates that up to 95% of all doctor visits are stress related.
Being over-stressed can also lead to low work performance, sleep issues, absent-mindedness, decreased interest in life, addictions, and many other undesirable results.
On the other hand, people who respond well to stress and know how to prevent unnecessary anxiety are typically peak performers.

Increase your energy and focus.
Allow you to deal effectively with authority, roles and limits.
Increase your tolerance to frustration during difficult circumstances.
Let you adapt to change and prosper from it.
Help you to develop a sense of belonging.
Let you show friendliness, care, and love.
Allow you to enjoy recreation.
Permit you to relax and sleep better.
Free your sense of humor and ability to laugh at yourself.
Let you demonstrate a reasonable sense of independence and self-reliance.

It is a little known fact that hypnosis is very effective in relieving and controlling pain, and the use of hypnosis to manage pain must therefore be approached with extreme caution. We know about hypnotherapy's effectiveness as a pain management tool largely through the research and publications of Ernest Hillgard, former emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, who used a control research group to show that hypnosis was highly effective in managing pain.

Ethical Considerations in treating Pain relief and Pain management

One of the biggest ethical considerations should be to never treat pain unless the cause of that pain is already known and has been diagnosed by a medical practitioner. Pain is sometimes a symptom of a more serious underlying condition, for example, a persistent headache could be a symptom of a brain tumour.

If as a clinician I were to treat the headache in this example, before the root cause of the pain was known, then this could well lead to the brain tumour not being diagnosed for longer. However, if the patient had already been to their doctor and more serious causes of the headaches had been eliminated, then it would be fine for the consultations to proceed.

Treating pain - when can it be done?

Pain should never be treated for its own sake, but if the underlying cause is known and your doctor gives permission, this program can be very effective in relieving pain. We use a variety of situations for treating pain, including the following:

• Post-operative pain - where traditional painkillers aren't appropriate, perhaps because the patient is afraid needles or allergic to medication.
• Phantom limb pain - amputees sometimes experience pain from limbs which have been removed, and research has shown that hypnosis has had impressive results in treating this kind of pain.
• Palliative care - some hypnotherapists work with terminally ill patients to manage their pain and improve their quality of life. NB this is a specialism and not all hypnotherapists are happy to work with the terminally ill.

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