Okay, so I learned about relaxation therapy many, many years ago when I was a teen pregnancy counselor, and accompanied many of my clients to their Lamaze classes and deliveries. The principle of Lamaze is that if you teach the pregnant woman to relax and do relaxation breathing during the labor contractions, she can sustain herself without medication, or with less medication. Another principle is to be educated regarding what to expect as the pain intensifies or changes, and to be able to adapt to that.
Now, as a social worker who works in a psychiatric prison, one of the basic coping skills we teach is relaxation exercises: deep breathing, diaphramatic breathing, or progressive muscle relaxation.
Well, with this knowledge, I have powered through my pain for years. It might be sciatica, caused by a bulging disc of my spine. It might be something else. For now, it is being treated as if it is sciatica and a result of the bulging disc. I am awaiting a pain management consultation.
I have endured this pain for some time. It would be nice to be able to resolve the pain, but I have limited hope: Hope that this can occur, but awareness it may not.
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