Saturday, September 8, 2007

The #1 health complaint throughout the world is-by far Pain..

Hi everyone,
I wanted to start my postings with a little bit of statistics and information about Pain sufferers.

It's sad to say but the one health complaint throughout the worldis-by far is pain. It accounts for more doctors' visits than anything else and nothing else even comes close. More money is spenton this one health problem than anything else. Give up? It's pain, or what has come to be referred to as either the "silent epidemic" or the "hidden epidemic."

The number of people who have to deal with pain on a regular basis intheir life is absolutely staggering. When you examine the statistics associated with pain, it is glaringly obvious that despite all of the often reported advances made in healthcare, pain is increasingly becoming more common, not less so. The numbers are so striking it's difficult toeven grasp the full measure of the problem. Literally hundreds of millions of people are in pain and for many of them it is constant pain every day.

For many of the people sufferring, their chronic pain is so severe and debilitating, they feel they can't function as normal people. Huge numbersof people believe that pain is simply a part of getting older; that painis something you simply have to learn to live with.

What about you; what's your belief system about pain?
Are you one of those who have bought into the inevitability of pain?
Are you convinced that because it's so prevalent it's just a matter of time before something starts to hurt?
That certainly as time goes by something has to start to hurt?
Or are you one of those who are already in pain and have simply resigned yourself to it?

Everything to be found regarding how to combat pain revolves around pain management; dealing with, coping with, or in some way learning how to live with pain. With many debilitating problems, such as arthritis, fibromyalgia,lupus, or chronic fatigue syndrome, the medical community declares that "there is no known cause." There is not a word to be found regarding how one might goabout removing the cause of the pain because it has been accepted as fact thatthe cause is unknown. Just because the medical community does not know the cause of your pain that does not mean that no one does. The cause is known, and it can be removed. I am living proof of this.

The number one tool in pain management is drugs; Drugs do not fix or heal anything. They simply help to fight symptoms. They do not get to the underlying cause of pain. you should never lose sight that your body is always striving to heal anything that needs fixing, inside the body or not.

Wishing you Health and Happiness!
Michele Brooks
greaterliefnow@yahoo.com

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