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HOW REDUCING STRESS CAN ALLEVIATE BACK PAIN SYMPTOMS

Stress is a term that, according to its context, can have many different meanings, these including:
A mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health, usually characterised by greater muscular tension, an increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure, irritability, and possibly accompanied by depressive feelings.
A stimulus or circumstance causing such a condition.
A state of extreme difficulty, pressure, or strain - the latter, of course, also including chronic pain, such as that which may be suffered by someone with acute sciatica.
Additionally, of course, one needs to differentiate sharply between clearly obvious physical stress - such as that you may inflict on your back by, let's say, lifting a heavy object - and any mental stress that can colour how you may react to symptoms and therefore how painful these may feel.
However, we now look at the other kind of stress - the emotional kind - and how reducing or controlling this can in turn make your symptoms more bearable or even make it seem that they've disappeared altogether.
There is little doubt that how you experience pain or discomfort - or, perhaps more accurately, how you react to these - will often be strongly influenced by your state of mind at the time. A sciatic twinge or a tightness in the lower back will be all the more apparent and distressing when your spirits are at a low ebb than when you're feeling on top of the world. While your mental state may not affect your pain itself, it will certainly have a great effect upon how strongly you perceive it.
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TAKING ESTROGEN

With the onset of menopause, many women suffer from hot flashes and night sweats. Arlene March, 56, a Los Angeles psychotherapist, says she started getting hot flashes 5 years ago. “I’d be working,” she recalls, “and suddenly feel intense heat all over my body. I’d break out in a sweat. I’d have to stop work. Then Dr. Mishell prescribed estrogen pills, and I’ve not had a day of discomfort.”
Some women experience a drying and thinning of vaginal tissues in the absence of estrogen, making sex painful. They also might suffer urinary tract infections and incontinence. Estrogen therapy often helps.
Among the physicians consulted, the most cautious was Dr. Morris Notelovitz, founder of the nation’s first Menopause Center, at the University of Florida, and head of the Women’s Medical and Diagnostic Center in Gainesville, Florida. He says each symptom needs a different treatment and advises that genital tract problems be given estrogen treatment for a couple of years at most. He also urges special measurements of the bones before prescribing estrogen therapy for osteoporosis.
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