應對慢性痛的策略
Strategies for Coping With Chronic Pain
For many patients, chronic pain takes over their life, keeping them from doing the things they love. That can, in turn, make pain worse. Here chronic pain sufferers and experts share techniques for controlling pain and enjoying life.
對很多病人來說，慢性痛掌控了他們的生活，使他們不能再去做自己熱愛的事。反過來，這會使疼痛更甚。慢性病患者和專家在這篇文章中分享了控制疼痛和享受生活的一些技巧。Distraction actually works
分散注意力真的很有效
A soccer field isn't the first place you'd look for a woman suffering from intense, debilitating, chronic back pain, but that was where Jan, a 45-year-old mom from Boulder, Colo., went to get away from her pain. Coaching her son's soccer team took her out of herself and away from her pain. "I couldn't even kick the ball," says Jan. "But it was good for me because it was a distraction. You want to do stuff and be active and be with your kids to distract yourself."
第一個你能看到女性遭受嚴重的，令人無力的背部慢性痛折磨的場所並非足球場，但是，來自哥倫比亞州博爾德市的簡，她是一位45歲的媽媽，她就去了足球場止痛。 “我甚至都不會踢球。”簡說道，“但對我說這是有利的，因爲它能分散我的注意力。你想做些事情，想要積極點，那麼就應該跟你的孩子們一起玩鬧來分散注意力。”Focus on activities you love to do
將注意力集中到你熱衷的事情上去Another approach is to set small but important goals, says Gabriel Tan, PhD, a pain psychologist at the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Houston. One of Tan's patients with severe back pain found some relief in surgery and medication, but the remaining pain was still being compounded by his inability to do the things he enjoyed doing.
另一個方法就是去設定小而重要的目標，加布裏埃爾•坦博士說道，她是休斯頓麥克得貝基退伍軍人事務醫療中心的疼痛心理學家。坦的一位病人背部激痛，病人在做外科手術和服用藥物後發現疼痛有所緩解，但因爲他不能做自己所熱衷的事，他仍然會感受到剩餘的痛。Make time for yourself
爲自己抽出些時間Working in some fun is often not a high priority for people with chronic pain. But that's a tactical mistake, says Keefe, who teaches chronic pain coping skills. Keefe finds that pain patients often eliminate pleasant things and accept few distractions.
通常對於患有慢性痛的患者，愉快的工作並不是首要任務。但這是一個策略錯誤，教授應對慢性痛策略的基夫說道。基夫發現，患有慢性痛的患者通常會拒絕做令人愉快的事情，只會接受很少一部分分散注意力的事。Reach out to those around you
跟身邊的人多接觸People who live with chronic pain can also fall victim to personal isolation. Amanda, 39, of Manchester, N.H., makes a point to reach out whenever she has a severe migraine attack. "Just finding someone to listen to you for a few minutes," she says, "you can get relief from that."
患有慢性病的患者可能也會成爲自我隔離的受害者。阿曼達，39歲，來自新罕布什爾州曼徹斯特市，每當她偏頭痛嚴重時，她就堅持去接觸其他人。“只是去找人聽我說幾分鐘話。”她說道，“疼痛就會有所緩解。”
