Back Clinics of Canada - Live a Pain-Free Life

Chronic Pain and Your Emotional Well-Being

People who suffer from chronic pain are at greater risk of developing depression. This is due to the limitations that chronic pain can put on many areas of a person’s life. If you are unable to perform daily activities, or participate in things that give you pleasure, your emotional health is affected.

When pain is debilitating, you could have trouble driving, cooking, even bathing and getting dressed. Inability to sleep can leave you exhausted and irritable, in turn affecting your relationships with family and loved ones. You may be unable to participate in the leisure activities that bring you so much joy; things like gardening, recreational sports, dancing, and travel. And if you are unable to work or forced to go on disability or take an early retirement, it adds another level of challenges because you may not be able to provide for your family in the way you’d like. Inactivity can also lead to additional physical health problems.

Some common feelings experienced are exhaustion, fatigue, frustration, anger at your body, anger at others, desperation, disappointment.

How do you avoid getting so down when you’re in a constant state of pain? It’s hard to say. A lot has to do with being able to manage expectations. So make a plan. Try to remember what your life was like before the pain took over. Look at how your life is now. Determine what you can live with, and what you’d like to get back. Then find a doctor and a treatment that can help get you to where you want to be.

Dr. Nusbaum, Director of Back Clinics of Canada, believes a pain-free life is a reality. He’s helped so many people, just like you, get back to their normal life. And he does it with non-surgical Spinal Decompression.

Patients have come to Dr. Nusbaum suffering not only physically, but emotionally too. They are overcome with sadness, despair, even depression. These are people who feel they are being robbed of some of the best years of their life because of their chronic pain.

Usually they have tried many other therapies and treatments, sometimes over the course of years. And they’re still in pain. Some come in with walkers and canes. They’re hunched over and moving with an awkward, shuffling gait. They are parents and grandparents, professionals and tradesmen, homemakers, artists, athletes and CEOs. They all have the same thing in common. They just want their life back.

For those who qualify for Spinal Decompression, this treatment marks the beginning of their new pain-free, and happy life.

Most patients note that when they complete their care, and even just part way through the program, they feel a remarkable change in their emotional well-being. And not only that, it’s common for family, friends and colleagues to comment that they see positive changes in the patient as well.