Half of cancer patients with persistent and severe pain tend to undergo psychological therapy and physical therapy to reduce pain they suffered. The therapies can increase the strength and confidence of patients to fight cancer, and also can improve the quality of their life. Today, many oncologists recommend at least 4 methods that can effectively reduce pain in patients and those all have been proven.
1. Psychological Therapy
This therapy aims to increase patients’ confidence to fight cancer malignancy. This method can be combined with various methods of cancer treatment. The method hints the patients to control their body themselves, informing them that their activeness during treatment can help them to fight the disease, increase their courage, in order to mobilize the maximum capacity of their body to destroy the cancer cells.
2. Relaxation Method
This is the most recommended one! This works based on the fact that when the body relaxes, the muscles will become relaxed, so the body can block the pain reaction. Ask the patient to close both eyes, take a deep breath, and exhale. The next step to do is to relax the muscles of the abdomen and back, slowly do the stomach breathing. Or take the patient to a quiet place, ask the patient to close his/her eyes, pull and exhale slowly, let fresh air into the lungs, and so the pain can subside by itself. Relaxation method has even been proven to relieve the great pain commonly experienced by women who give birth. There are at least a few breathing methods but they all share the same theoretical basis.
3. Physical Therapy
This is such a stimulation step through massage, applying painkillers, doing various temperature-based stimuli, or using a hot water bath with a temperature of 65 ° covered with a wet towel as a compressor as this simple method can ease the pain experienced. Do this therapy for 20 minutes; this method can give natural Analgesic effect. The analgesic effect works by suppressing the peripheral and central nervous system. The pressure is essentially capable of changing perceptions of pain. We know that we can find an abundance of Analgesic medications but the one emphasized in this article is a natural effect that absolutely does not result from any medication.
4. Shifting the Patient’s Attention from Cancer
Let the patient sit in a comfortable chair; close his/her eyes, then recall his/her happy childhood or think of whatever he/she wants. Do it for 15 minutes, usually done 2 hours after eating. After that, let him/her sit with a blind eye for 2 minutes. Play the favorite song of the patient, or give the patient a joke or a funny story. This method can be used to reduce the pain of cancer.
Basically, most patients with advanced stages have fewer opportunities to survive but in many cases, simple therapies can improve their quality of life during the treatment period. We hope this simple article can give you a little knowledge about the battle against cancer.
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This is such a stimulation step through massage, applying painkillers, doing various temperature-based stimuli, or using a hot water bath with a temperature of 65 ° covered with a wet towel as a compressor as this simple method can ease the pain experienced. Do this therapy for 20 minutes; this method can give natural Analgesic effect. The analgesic effect works by suppressing the peripheral and central nervous system. The pressure is essentially capable of changing perceptions of pain. We know that we can find an abundance of Analgesic medications but the one emphasized in this article is a natural effect that absolutely does not result from any medication.
4. Shifting the Patient’s Attention from Cancer
Let the patient sit in a comfortable chair; close his/her eyes, then recall his/her happy childhood or think of whatever he/she wants. Do it for 15 minutes, usually done 2 hours after eating. After that, let him/her sit with a blind eye for 2 minutes. Play the favorite song of the patient, or give the patient a joke or a funny story. This method can be used to reduce the pain of cancer.
Basically, most patients with advanced stages have fewer opportunities to survive but in many cases, simple therapies can improve their quality of life during the treatment period. We hope this simple article can give you a little knowledge about the battle against cancer.
Category in Cancer,
