HSC2003 Understanding approaches to managing pain and discomfort. 1. Explain the importance of a holistic approach to managing pain and discomfort. Using a holistic approach is important because it gets to the root of the problem, the reason your having pain to begin with. Pain may be coming from another part of of the body.
They both have the concept of saving a life, but just have different ways of doing it. Patch’s is more of the unorthodox practice and can go really great, or go really sour. If Patch has a more understanding of personal information about a person, then he can rule out certain diseases or treatments needed for the patient. By doing this, he can save lots of time and possible save a life if under a time frame. But if Patch was too attach to the patient, he could also make a totally wild off the chart procedure and could cause more damage or be fatal to the patient.
In addition, I would choose to have an epidural during delivery. Some people view the pain during childbirth, as a part of “the bonding experience”. I view the pain as “unnecessary.” If you are a woman would you want your partner present? I would definitely want my partner present during child birth. A partner’s role during the child birthing process is very important, to ensure the woman feels emotionally supported.
Another advantage of acupuncture is that it is a natural substitute to medicine; this is because it reduces pain naturally. Also acupuncture will help to remove all the toxins as well as helps fast healing, this is because it increases the blood flow. Acupuncture – Disadvantages One of the disadvantages of acupuncture is that you can be sore for a while after your treatment, although this is not a bad thing it certainly will be for the person in pain. All acupuncture sessions are scheduled to have a follow up procedure which can be an inconvenience for some people. As well as this it can be quite expensive as it doesn’t come under the NHS.
* As the readers can see, Chanda believes that her mother’s pain comes from the loss of Jonah. However, her pain actually comes from the harmful disease of AIDS. Also, as the readers continue to read through section two they might begin to realize all Chanda has to do for her family. All in all, Chanda might be trying to hide the fact that her mother has AIDS. * This reveal the power of family tie, and how big the impact is family members can have on others.
A licensed massage therapist will lightly stroke and/or knead the painful muscles. This may increase blood flow and bring warmth to a stressed area. Because arthritis stressed joints are so sensitive, the therapist must be familiar with the problems of the disease. Some benefits that can be achieved by using massage therapy as a treatment for OA are: decreased pain and increased mobility; increased blood flow to areas of arthritis, bringing oxygen to help healing; flushing out of toxic inflammatory substance that can add to pain and swelling; and increased relaxation and a sense of well-being. The types of massage that can help to reduce pain and swelling with OA are: trigger point, reiki, shiatsu, swedish, and reflexology.
To have the abortion would avoid harm towards the patient, relieve mental suffering and lead toward the improvement of the patient’s mental health status. For example, if she would go through with the abortion, it would relieve the psychological suffering of the woman because she would know that her child would be from the man who raped her. Every time see would see her child, it would remind her of her traumatic experience and this could harm her mentally. Keeping the baby would not necessarily harm her health in a physical way, but there is a possibility that her mental health would be dramatically altered to a point where she would need to seek professional help to heal after being raped. Even though the goals of medicine are altered to fit mental health, they should still apply the same way to the
Suffering drags you to look deeper into yourself. To prove his point he provides example by using credibility (ethos) of theologian Paul Tillich and he wrote, “people who endure suffering are taken beneath the routine of life and find they’re no who they believed themselves to be.” Suffering has different impact on people. From the article present us the information of Fanklin Roosevelt how he came back deeper and more empathetic after getting affected by Polio. As to the audience it’ll motivate them to overcome when they face adversity in their life. Many people through various social media share their appreciation to this article.
A strength of this will be that the individual will be able to communicate with other people and get their needs across and get help if they are needing it. However a weakness is that the individual may be misinterpreted or if the staff is still learning the individual may not get the help that they need. Having a patient's advocate will allow for the individual to have choices made for them in their best interests of the individual is unable to make the choices themselves for whatever reason. A strength of having a patient advocate would be that the know the individual and know what they would be happy with regarding their personal life and their health decisions. However a patient advocate may do
The person may benefit from professional counselling sessions in order for them to get to the bottom of what is causing the distress. You should give the person opportunity to talk and express themselves, making sure that you are non-judgmental and supportive. 4.3 Working closely and getting to know people will often help you to discover the triggers that make people distressed. You may manage to find ways in which you can contribute to reduce causes of distress. Depending on the underlying forces, distress can sometime be dealt with by physical means, such as, an immediate removal from the cause such as taking a break from work or from caring for a difficult, very ill, demanding relative.