If your loved one is battling chronic pain, it can seem impossible to make them feel comfortable, especially while aging in place. The truth is chronic pain needs to be managed by a doctor, and they may need more help at home from another professional like personal care at home. If your loved one needs help getting dressed, bathing, and eating, this is something that personal care at home can help with, and it may make a huge difference in how well your loved one can age in place. Here are some good tips that you or personal care at home can use to help your loved one with pain management.
Massages With a Professional
Your loved one may benefit from getting professional massages. Getting a massage can help with chronic pain by promoting relaxation, reducing muscle tension, and increasing blood flow to affected areas. A massage may stimulate the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers, which can temporarily relieve pain and improve overall comfort for individuals with chronic pain conditions. Personal care at home may help your loved one with light massages, but they aren’t professional massagers. If your senior needs help with this, they should always go to a professional like a chiropractor, a massage therapist, or someone their doctor recommends.
Practicing Relaxation
Two relaxation techniques that can help your seniors are deep breathing exercises, where you focus on slow, deep breaths to calm the nervous system and reduce stress, and progressive muscle relaxation, where you systematically tense and then release muscle groups to alleviate muscle tension and promote relaxation. Both techniques can be taught by a professional like a doctor or maybe another professional like a physical therapist. If your senior doesn’t use these techniques, they may experiment to find something else that works for them. Sometimes, a hot bath or hot cup of tea is just what someone needs to relax.
Get a Doctors Help
You can try every natural remedy in the book, but it may not work for your loved one. If you have tried everything and your loved one is still battling chronic pain, they should talk to a doctor. Taking too many over-the-counter painkillers can drastically impact a senior’s liver and other internal organs. Their doctor should know they are battling chronic pain, and they may have better ways for a senior to manage this chronic pain.
Keep Working Out
Your loved one may have chronic pain due to inflammation, and one of the best ways to manage both is through light workouts. They should be moving every day, which will help reduce inflammation in the body, which may help them with chronic pain. No matter where your senior is in life, they should focus on working out and staying as mobile as possible. If your loved one needs help with motivation, this is something that personal care at home can help with, or if they need more help, this is something that a physical therapist can also help with. Your loved one may need several people to care for them.
If you or an aging loved one are considering personal care at home in Dover, MA, please contact the caring staff at PlatinumCare + today. Call (617) 237-0867.
PlatinumCare + was born out of the desire and passion to provide the very best home health care possible in Brookline, Dover, Newton, Needham, Watertown, Weston, Cambridge, Lincoln, Sudbury, Belmont, Boston MA, and surrounding areas.
All with decades of experience, Tim in IT Operations, Support, and Management, Brenda in Client Relations, Healthcare Services & Sales Management, and Anne in Healthcare as a Nurse Practitioner combined their skills to form what is now PlatinumCare +.
As immigrants to the US, all came from backgrounds where Healthcare for aging parents was a responsibility of the immediate family and the entire community. Aging, sick, or terminal community members were cared for physically, emotionally, and financially by family, friends, including strangers! This community approach, Healthcare with a difference, delivered with the utmost love, care, sacrifice, and passion, forms the basis of how PlatinumCare + grounds itself.
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