What would you do without pain?
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What would you do without pain?

Jules Rampal Jules Rampal

Jules Rampal

发布日期: 2019年6月13日
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That's a real question that can often indicate the real suffering of a patient. Because pain and suffering are not the same. Some people might suffer without pain, some might have pain but not suffer from it. So what about you?

The first time I saw my 81 years old patient, she was using a wheelchair. Quite recently her condition got worse and she's not able to stand up on her own, mostly because of some pain in her lower back and legs.

When we started the treatment I could feel a lot of tensions in her lower abdomen, pulling in her hips and limitating the way she's moving her pelvis.

Having synaesthesia is a real blessing as I can feel all that in my own body and help her to find stillness again.

'I feet a bit better' is what she told me after the 1st appointment. On the 3rd appointment, no more wheelchair. On the 5th, she starts to use a stick to walk on her own.

'Now I can go to the loo on my own, I'm so happy'.

Sounds like a detail to most of us, something we don't think about. But details make a big difference when it comes to one's quality of life.

Pain and suffering really are two different things.

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