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Health & Wellness

Pain Management through Hydrotherapy

Dr. Hemlatha Murthy
Mar 2010

Pain is a nature's signal, a symptom of mind and body disorders. The perception of pain or any other somatic sensation begins with sensory receptors. The somatic senses are the nervous mechanism that collects sensory information from the part of the body, where there is disorders or diseased. It is an intricate mechanism of nervous system. The thalamus, a part in brain plays especially an important role in determining the type of sensation. The somesthatic cortex area in the brain determines where in the body the sensory signals originate.

Pain sensation plays an essential role in protecting the body tissues against damage. In fact, it is slightest tissue damage itself, which stimulates pain nerve endings. When stimulated, the pain sensory system causes multiple responses, beginning with withdrawal reflexes integrated with the spinal cord that withdraw individual parts of the body away from the pain stimuli for e.g. With draw hand /leg from fire/. But, if the pain stimulus is from within the body, the sufferer expresses with various expressions like crying, shouting, rolling etc.

There are two types of pain sensation:

1. Fast pain - sharp, pricking, acute, electric etc.

2. Slow pain – burning, aching, throbbing, nausea, chronic nagging pain, pain due to stiffness etc.

There are three types of pain mechanism:

1. Mechanical - which occurs due to wrong postures, stretches, heat, cold.

2. Thermal - due to excessive heat or cold

3. Chemical - certain chemical stimulated in the body, due to various disorders or diseases or condition. Pain signals has special capability to arouse nervous systems in such a way that, the sufferers finds it difficult to concentrate, rest or sleep.

There is a pain control (analgesia) system in the brain or spinal cord. The degree to which each person reacts to pain varies tremendously. This results partly from the capability of the brain itself to control the degree of pain input signals to the nervous by activation of pain control system. The analgesia system can inhibit pain transmission at other points in the pain pathway.

Management of pain is very essential for leading a quality of life. But at the same time the approach should be with natural remedial agents and simultaneously aim to mitigate the causative factors or to find out the origin of pain. Though, we instantaneously use instant pain relieving medicines / chemicals /drugs, it is important to known the cause of the pain and relieve it. This approach prevents further deterioration in condition/ disorder and promotes health.

The external pain killers or relieving agents has lot of side effects if over used or self medicated. The side effects like acidity, constipation, indigestion, ulcers etc, can be hazardous.

Naturopathy & yoga is a system of medicine which is non-invasive & safe. The various therapeutically remedial methods used are: - hydrotherapy, natural dietetics, helio & chromo therapy, magneto therapy, manipulative techniques, mud therapy, acupuncture, acupressure and yoga therapy. Each therapy is a potent tool to alleviate the pain. In this article, I would like to mention regarding hydrotherapy (water treatment).

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