The body-mind approaches could be integrated to the care of the aged people suffering from chronic pains, according to the auteures of a synthesis of 20 clinical tests.
Two teachers of the Faculty of medicine of the university of Pittsburgh bent on various non medicinal techniques to reduce the chronic pain at eldests. Their analysis was about the biofeedback, the progressive muscular relaxation, the meditation, the mental imagery, the hypnotherapy, the tai-chi, the Qi Gong and yoga.
They wanted to verify if these techniques could suit the aged people who are more susceptible to endure undesirable effects associated to the medicines against the pain (notably the anti-inflammatory and the opiates).
According to their conclusion, the body-mind approaches is the techniques whose efficiency is demonstrated relatively well to reduce various shapes of pain. And their doesn’t seem to make no doubt.
Their results indicate that at people of more than 50 years:
* the biofeedback would help to relieve the lombalgie, the headache and the rheumatic pains; * the muscular relaxation would be efficient against the headache; * the meditation and hypnosis would help to reduce the lumbar pains; * the mental imagery would improve the mobility and would decrease the symptoms of the osteoarthritis; * the tai-chi, the Qi Gong and yoga would help to relieve the articular pains and would reduce the stiffness while improving the balance and the mobility (prevention of the falls).
Their analysis didn’t reveal any undesirable effect attributable to one or the other of these interventions. According to the auteures of the survey, all these approaches can be adapted easily to the eldests and so to improve their quality of life.
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