You are a friend indeed to be concerned about your friend. But without more information on his/her treatment, diagnosis, medications, duration of treatment, original injury, things that make the issue(s) better or worse, what other stress factors maybe going on other than the back pain there may be .....
It is impossible for any of us to make any informed suggestions as to how to be assistance.
Stress can make pain feel worse, so any relaxation may help, perhaps write down what stressful aspects they are having and try to deal with them one at a time, I almost laughed out loud when our residential PM team suggested relaxation. It is not for everyone and takes time, patience and practice to master any new skill and technique.
As a busy chap I would have needed to look up the word relaxation in the dictionary, and in a room of 20 other patients a challenge for any practitioner, it did help me and I could feel the benefit, it is only one tool in managing pain and we need a mass of others, from PT to CBT and PM itself, the hope is that eventually the P word enters our thoughts less and less, even though we are in chronic pain all the time.
Pain is inevitable, misery is optional. Sternbach et al
Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
Albert Schweitzer 1953.
“It’s not things that trouble us but the views we take of them” Epitectus
L4 L5 disc replacement in 2004=causing nerve damage'Flexicore disc. 2006 fusion same level leaving adr in. Fusion did nothing to releive the nerve pain.Pain clinic=every injection procedure avalable inc,razadamy, ablation, nerve stimulater trial,morphine pump trial all failed. Pain can be described as burning pain in lower spine penetrating in to left buttock,down left leg. Refuse to take lyrica or nuorontin do to its side effect,Leaving me with norco,valume,and flexiril at night.Which these medications only help with the muscle aches and stiffnes does nothing for the nerve pain from the nerve damage sustained from the adr surgery.Coming up nov.19th 2009 Lami, and hardware removal from fusion,for hardware just causing more pain in other areas.Hardware block comfirmed hardware is also causing pain in diferent area aside from the severe nerve pain on left side.Emg showed some posible problem above surgery are at L3 L4.
You are a friend indeed to be concerned about your friend. But without more information on his/her treatment, diagnosis, medications, duration of treatment, original injury, things that make the issue(s) better or worse, what other stress factors maybe going on other than the back pain there may be .....
It is impossible for any of us to make any informed suggestions as to how to be assistance.
More information would be helpful.
Regards,
d
Stress can make pain feel worse, so any relaxation may help, perhaps write down what stressful aspects they are having and try to deal with them one at a time, I almost laughed out loud when our residential PM team suggested relaxation. It is not for everyone and takes time, patience and practice to master any new skill and technique.
As a busy chap I would have needed to look up the word relaxation in the dictionary, and in a room of 20 other patients a challenge for any practitioner, it did help me and I could feel the benefit, it is only one tool in managing pain and we need a mass of others, from PT to CBT and PM itself, the hope is that eventually the P word enters our thoughts less and less, even though we are in chronic pain all the time.
Good luck and keep going.
John
DDD.1990 Laminectomy, Failed spine fusion, hartshill rectangle RLS. 3 stents
Pain is inevitable, misery is optional. Sternbach et al
Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
Albert Schweitzer 1953.
“It’s not things that trouble us but the views we take of them” Epitectus
Sex is best for stress,
L4 L5 disc replacement in 2004=causing nerve damage'Flexicore disc. 2006 fusion same level leaving adr in. Fusion did nothing to releive the nerve pain.Pain clinic=every injection procedure avalable inc,razadamy, ablation, nerve stimulater trial,morphine pump trial all failed. Pain can be described as burning pain in lower spine penetrating in to left buttock,down left leg. Refuse to take lyrica or nuorontin do to its side effect,Leaving me with norco,valume,and flexiril at night.Which these medications only help with the muscle aches and stiffnes does nothing for the nerve pain from the nerve damage sustained from the adr surgery.Coming up nov.19th 2009 Lami, and hardware removal from fusion,for hardware just causing more pain in other areas.Hardware block comfirmed hardware is also causing pain in diferent area aside from the severe nerve pain on left side.Emg showed some posible problem above surgery are at L3 L4.