This article is in our series featuring pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It’s your at-home pain management class! Guided imagery helps reduce pain even more directly than relaxation exercises through the use of suggestion. An image is paired with your pain, and by imagining decreasing or changing the picture in some way, your pain may also decrease. […]

This article is in our series featuring pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It’s your at-home pain management class! Sometimes it’s hard to do things that will help yourself, even if you know they’re good for you. An intriguing suggestion comes from Haider Al-Mosawi. He writes that committing to a new habit – say, […]

This article is in our series featuring pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It’s your at-home pain management class! Visualization is using a picture or image to help you relax. Both relaxation and visualization reduce pain by helping you relax. An image that may people enjoy is the beach, but you can use any place or thing that you love. Visualization exercise […]

This article is in our series featuring pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It’s your at-home pain management class! I hope you’re using pain management techniques regularly – or at least making progress getting into that habit! But none of us is perfect, and we can all use a boost, right? Here are some […]