Diet, exercise, more: Chronic pain syndrome can have a number of potential causes. It may be important to understand the specific cause of your pain before recommending non-medication approaches to obtaining relief, though in my experience, many benefit from gentle, regular exercise, healthy diet, mindfulness training, vipassana meditation, healing touch, psychotherapy, and tapping therapy, among other approaches.
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CBT: It is far more important to recognize that chronic pain is not amenable, as a rule, to the routine methods of treatment and pain control used in acute cases. Also, as a pain condition shifts toward chronicity, behavioral and psychological problems begin to modify the pain experience and take on more significance.
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