By Cherie C. Binns, RN BS MSCN 3/1/09
Those of us who have played sports, worked out rigorously, are parents of young children or grandchildren, have suffered a major injury or accident….know what pain is. And that pain often comes back to haunt us at the most inconvenient times. We are caught in the act of lifting something out of the trunk of a car or picking up a child, or taking something off a high shelf, or trying to get a good night’s sleep only to have pain keep us awake and aware.
For years (with a history of a couple of automobile accidents, injuries while working on the family farm, a broken tailbone, a torn ACL in my left knee) I suffered short and long term bouts of discomfort and out right pain that at times, interfered with my level of activity or my quality of sleep. For years my docs listened to the history and threw mild muscle relaxants and Ibuprofen or mild narcotic pain meds my way to alleviate this. For years they said something to the effect of, “Well, you know….now that you have MS, all these old injuries will come back to haunt you. The body has a long term memory.” And for years I accepted that rationale.
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