Mind and Body Management Strategies for Chronic Pain and Rheumatoid Arthritis

• DOI: 10.1177/1049732309341189
• Publication Date: 2009-07-28T20:58:43Z
• Authors: Fauzia Shariff; Jane Carter; Clare Dow; Marie Polley; Maria Salinas; Damien Ridge
• Keywords: Adult; Male; Mind-Body Therapies; Pain; Middle Aged; 3. Good health; Arthritis, Rheumatoid; Interviews as Topic; Self Care; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Adaptation, Psychological; Chronic Disease; Humans; Female; Qualitative Research; Aged

Chronic pain (CP) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pose particular challenges for the individual. Although biomedicine inevitably plays a role in reduction or control of some symptoms people living with chronic pain, directed self-management is also increasingly recognized as an important tool. Self-management can address pain-associated CP RA, often has broader aims, such promoting positive well-being. Forty-six interviews experiencing 46 those RA-associated were analyzed. Our analysis uncovered three broad strategies adopted by participants: body management, mind-management mindbody management. The demonstrated that sense well-being achieved not through alone, but various mind/body techniques managing accepting new limits, adjusting way relate to themselves. These are adjunct biomedical care pain.