Fight Chronic Pain Without Medication

 
Younger Canadians are now facing a life of pain which severely limits their activities and quality of life according to according to reporter Rebecca Lindell of Postmedia Services on December 15, 2010.

In her article "1 in 10 Younger Canadians Experience Chronic Pain".she describes how a sudden injury to a young lady forced her to make drastic changes in her daily activities in order to cope with a life of chronic pain – which she has faced for 26 years. This has forced her to abandon a career in urban planning and survive on a disability pension.

And she is not alone. According to a recent report from Statistic Canada some 10 percent of young Canadian between the years of 12 and 44 years do face lives of chronic pain as a result of back and of her injuries. According to Lindell the Statistics Canada report also showed that some 63 percent of people as a whole are prevented from performing everyday tasks at home, school, and work" as a result of pain.

In the article Dr. May Lunch of the Canadian Pain Society said: "Not only is it causing suffering in people, but its costing Canada big bucks. People living with pain cannot function as well as people who don't have pain. Even when people do manage to drag themselves to work they are not as productive or as focussed or as efficient as they would be if their pain were under better control."

The problem for many of these people is that the medications they take can cause other productions through side effects and the addiction to the medication if they take it over a long term.

There, is though, another way to help your body cope with chronic pain like fibromyalgia and that is through reflexology treatments. The practitioners of this complementary therapy massage pressure points in your feet, hands and other areas to help your body to relax and recover from injuries as well as other health problems without the extensive use of pharmaceutical medications.

Of course you want to talk to your family physician before embarking on any type of complementary care like this I can tell you that reflexology has helped millions of persons throughout the word to recover from or cope with a wide variety of health problems and protect their enjoyment of life

For more information about this story contact Rebecca Lindell at Post Media Services. For more information on Reflexology contact the Canadian Reflexology Society or one of the other associations you can find on-line.