The concept of pain has been around as long as recorded history and even before. Historians have record of any number of things being chewed, ingested, applied, smoked and snorted to treat discomfort. But a report released earlier this summer saying that pain costs the United States $635 billion a year in medical expenses and lost productivity at work has medical professionals reexamining pain, considering new arthritis treatments and even natural pain relievers.
In a recent interview with the Boston Globe, Dr. Daniel Carr talked about the way we handle pain as a society. Carr, director of the Program in Pain Research, Education and Policy at the Tufts University School of Medicine, believes pain is undertreated because of a stigma we have as a society. Not only are physicians and patients wary of addictive pain medications, there might be something more basic going on.
"We have this profound ambivalence that we see in all herd animals, which we are," Carr said. If there’s an injured member of the group, the behavior fluctuates between trying to nurture the individual, but also stigmatizing the individual - marginalizing the individual who can’t help them get food or protect themselves."
But while Carr states that technological advances have helped doctors more effectively diagnose pain and get a arthritis treatment, it is the responsibility of the patient to recognize and report pain.
"One of the important things to come out of [the last decade of research] is that it is actually a responsibility of the patient to point out if they have pain, if it interferes with their function, and if it changes," says Carr. "It does not mean you’re being a wimp, but it can be extremely helpful in the therapeutic treatment of pain."
Xelvagen pain drops can help you take control of your own pain. Using natural pain relievers and ingredients, these topical drops can help you direct pain relief right to the site of your discomfort. Allowing you to direct your own care breaks from the tradition of failed pain remedies with natural pain relievers treatment that actually works.
"Pain is a symptom that people have experienced since before there was history. Probably over the course of the 20,000 years that people have carried forth folk observations, everything on the planet that people could get their hands on has either been chewed or inhaled or whatever to treat pain," Carr said. "You can see why it is so hard to find truly new things."
While the medical community and the health care industry struggle to understand pain, you can take control today with Xelvagen.