Thoughts On “Jonah Lehrer on Pain Control and Psychology | Head Case”
John- as the IOM study on emotional pain which came out last then a month clearly indiocates there are still professionals who believe thast pain is nothing more then a subjective sensation with no underlying pathophysiology-and as you can see here-there are those who advocate meditation regardless of the underlying condition. And i dont dispute meditations effectiveness to alleviate the sensation of pain-but i do dispute it as a standalone treatments as obviously meditation wont cure one of pain due to osteoarthritis, diabetes, chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy. We need comprehensive approach to pain- which includes comfort oriented care(meditation and opioids) curative treatments, regenerative and rejuvenative treatments , healing secondary prevention. Its sad that we still have those promulgating an oversimplified one size fits all apprach to pain like mediation or anti inflammatories or pt-as Dr Turk indicated and as the IOM study indicated-thos oversimplified approaches dont work
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