Coping with pain can vary across age, gender, medical history, and culture. Everyone’s experience with pain in their lives, physical and psychological, is different, as well as their bodies and beliefs. Treatment methods will affect people differently because of their pain tolerance. I believe that men have lower tolerance for physical pain than women, specifically because of the studies that have been done on childbirth pain. In addition to being able to birth children, the painful monthly menstrual cycles that we deal with most of our lives.
Psychologically treating pain can involve, but are not limited to, therapy, yoga and meditation, and guided relaxation techniques. When dealing with things like anxiety, tension, muscle problems, and more, these situations can benefit from counting or taking long, deep breaths bringing the body and muscles under control (Gurung, 2019). Creating a distraction from physical pain can steer the mind away from the situation and allow the body to stop focusing on the pain. People might also seek methods such as massage or hypnosis. Hypnosis is when a patient is prompted into a relaxed state by focusing on an object or the voice of the doctor and is given a proposition that is brought to mind when the patient returns the hypnotic trance (Gurung, 2019). Creating an environment to ease pain is also an option, such as a relaxing landscape, soothing decor and music, or virtual reality scenes. On the flip side of this, something such as a thunderstorm would increase pain (Gurung, 2019).
Treating pain physically can involve a range of treatments, depending on what kind of methods you are seeking and what kind of pain is being treated. Addictions are created from pills because of how quick and easy it is to ease physical pain with a little pill. There are three major categories of physiological pain relievers: non-opioids, opioids, and adjuvants (Gurung, 2019). Sadly more negative health issues are created from this. Acupuncture is a great way to ease pain and target certain parts of the body. The body has points based on a Chinese medicine chart, which is believed that the “disruptions in energy flow” is what causes our pain (Gurung, 2019). Surgery is an option for some health issues. This can result in longer lasting pain management. During surgery, pain medications are given as well as anesthetics.