Holistic pain management

  Depression and anxiety disorders are prevalent in today’s world, the age group most affected is 18-29 followed by 45-64 then 65+ and lastly those aged between 30-44. Depression and anxiety disorders symptoms are confused with sadness and laziness, but that is not true. Depression and anxiety disorders hamper a person’s ability to spend a normal life. The feelings of sadness, laziness, emptiness and loneliness are looming overhead all the time, they can strike hard even when you’re doing your favourite thing or spending time with your loved ones. Depression and anxiety disorders are as real as fever or any other illness and the stigma attached to them should now be overthrown. There’re many new and advanced ways to combat these illnesses and in this article, we’re going about one such cure called TMS therapy . What is TMS Therapy? Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a therapy that triggers or activates the brain. It uses electromagnetic pulses to stimulate the brain cells whi...

  Obsessive compulsive disorder is a disorder in which the patient has intrusive, irresistible thoughts or ideas (obsessions) about a specific act or ritual (compulsions) and a strong urge to do it over and over again. To combat the anxiety and stress, the people suffering from OCD have to perform the particular ritual or action multiple times like foot tapping, washing hands, blinking eyes, throat-clearing or scratching. OCD is fairly common according to the data collected by Harvard Medical School, around 2.3% of the population had experienced OCD at some point or the other in their lives. OCD is a long-term condition which has the ability to worsen overtime, it can hinder the way a person leads his/her normal life. While OCD can’t be cured completely, there are OCD medications that can help ease the symptoms and compulsions. OCD is normally treated with medication, cognitive behavioral therapy, brain stimulation therapies, TMS or other holistic changes. Most of the people suf...

  Pain isn’t just a fleeting feeling, or discomfort, it's way more than that, it has the ability to encapsulate you in a shell, make you dysfunctional and affect you greatly in every aspect of life. Acute pains happen to all of us, they come and go in matter of days or at most weeks. But chronic pain is the elevated version of acute pains, it hardly subsides, lasts beyond 6 months and affects us even more strongly than its lighter version. Chronic pains can cause severe depression, anxiety disorders and other mental disorders. You can also have many other health issues, which a doctor can tell you about after analysing how much pain you experience. Chronic pain management can only be done when you recognize that you have one, that would be the first step. There are various ways to recognise that you are suffering from chronic pain and you need to consult a doctor for chronic pain treatment . Firstly, if you pain hasn’t diminished for more than 2-4 weeks. If that pain is hinderin...