Working with Back PainIt is no surprise that a great number of patients cite anxiety over their ability to work in the future as a primary concern directly related to an affective dorsopathy condition. Working with Back Pain / Necessity
Back pain is a very misunderstood health crisis. While it is certainly possible to experience purely structural symptoms resulting from injury and degenerative processes, these types of pain generally respond well to appropriate treatment options. In these cases, work or career aspirations might have to be put on hold, but will generally resume once the painful complaint has been resolved. Patients with chronic unresolved back pain have dealt with longterm symptoms which have not improved despite multiple attempts at curing the misery. These are the people who have a really tough time adjusting to living a full and productive life with the added heft of back pain weighing down on their shoulders. While the pain is unrelenting, the needs of life go on, necessitating work, regardless of physical ability or emotional desire. Remember, chronic symptoms enact severe psychological effects which literally "take the fight" out of most patients immediately or eventually. Working with Back Pain DilemmaMost people with chronic pain actually want to work, but discover that for some reason, their back pain gets worse during expected work activities. If you must sit to work, then sitting is mostly a problem for you. The same might apply if you must stand, walk or perform repetitive motion tasks at your job. These are certainly not people with an agenda to be lazy, nor are these people enjoying secondary gain from their pain.One of the common reasons for work related back pain is an underlying psychosomatic symptom imperative related to some painful or troubling emotional issues. These issues may or may not be directly tied to work, but regardless, their symptomatic expression makes work a dismal experience and sometimes, a trial by fire. Patients with work-related conditions must choose to
cope with their back pain
and go on working or risk failing in life by simply giving in to the pain and acquiescing to a life of partial or even total
disability.
The emotional consequences of either decision are severe and can lead to a case of problematic
back pain depression. Working with Back Pain AdviceFinding a solution to the problem of working with chronic pain is difficult. The priority should always be ending the symptoms once and for all, rather than finding strategies to deal with the overbearing burden. Finding the time and resources to accomplish a real cure can be difficult, as your letters, emails and case studies have truly proven.I understand what it is like to work with back pain. At the worst of my pain, I was holding 4 separate jobs and working my fingers to the bone. I was truly burning the candle at both ends and looking back, realize the huge pressures of my career aspirations were a contributing factor to my suffering. Working with Back Pain to Back Pain 12/2/09 Revised 1/23/12 |
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