Chronic Pain and its Treatment, a Holistic View
In this article we discuss the causes and consequences of chronic pain. Come and find out more about this increasingly common problem.
29 May, 2024
Healthy Body, Healthy Mind - Change your Mindset
We talk about what is most complex, we talk about the magic of the brain. We talk about neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, psychology. We talk about the soul and the spirit. We talk and inform about what it means to be human.
From Portugal to the world, José Padrão Mendes was born in Portugal but studied and specialised abroad.
She has studied, worked and volunteered on four different continents, getting to know different realities and cultures. She has absorbed and learnt different ways of looking at life, and the way she does the art of medicine has also been influenced by being multicultural and multifocal.
Having specialised in Neurology and Neurocritical Care in Germany, she trained in Psychiatry and Psychology in Ireland and is open-minded about using innovative and scientifically proven therapies that can help those who need it most.
It makes use of preventive medicine, which uses different approaches to treat the physiological imbalance that is the disease, with pharmacological therapy often being used in the background or as a complement.
He has a special interest in Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, Rehabilitation Medicine and Behavioural Psychology. Within these areas, her work focuses on cerebrovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, migraines and headaches, neuropathic pain, neuralgia, therapy-resistant pain, multiple sclerosis, depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder.
In this article we discuss the causes and consequences of chronic pain. Come and find out more about this increasingly common problem.
Article originally published on the Estado com Arte website.
The world of anxiety is wider than you think... in this article we delve into the faces of anxiety, how they affect our lives and how they can be treated.
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The three specialities complement each other. They all treat pathologies related to the brain, but while Neurology deals with the "physiological" and "physical" factors of the pathology, Psychiatry deals with "psychic" illnesses, emotional problems and their behaviour. Using a computer metaphor: the brain is the processor, the mouse and keyboards are the peripheral nerves, i.e. the physical part is the hardware. Psychiatry deals with the programmes, the software. Neuropsychiatry is the area that studies the overlaps between the two specialities. See this article for more information.
Psychosomatic illnesses are the manifestation of emotional and psychological stress as physical symptoms. They are usually pains that don't go away, but can go as far as causing blindness or even preventing people from moving their limbs. The symptoms disappear when the underlying cause, the stressful situation, is treated.
The brain is what controls our body. When our brains are under a lot of stress, with unregulated emotions, they start to send and misinterpret the messages and stimuli they receive from the outside, often exacerbating certain stimuli or ignoring others. This leads to this emotional dysregulation translating into physical symptoms.
These physical symptoms can only be treated by treating the underlying psychiatric pathology.
As the Roman poet Juvenal said in the first century: "Mens sana in corpore sano", a healthy body in a healthy mind. With regular exercise, a healthy diet and regular, restorative sleep, you can maintain a healthy brain. You can do all the sudokus and maths exercises you like, but if you don't lead a healthy lifestyle, your brain will suffer. Preventing cardiovascular disease and keeping blood vessels healthy are among the main factors in maintaining a healthy brain.
It is categorised and proven by science that both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's have a strong genetic component. However, you shouldn't always assume that a person with a certain genetic mutation will certainly develop the disease during their lifetime. There are epigenetic and extragenetic factors that prevent and delay the onset of these diseases. Physiotherapy, a healthy diet and constant learning throughout life are all factors that protect against and slow down the progression of the disease. But these diseases are neurodegenerative and there is no cure, so symptomatic therapy is used at the moment.
The three specialities complement each other. They all treat pathologies related to the brain, but while Neurology deals with the "physiological" and "physical" factors of the pathology, Psychiatry deals with "psychic" illnesses, emotional problems and their behaviour. Using a computer metaphor: the brain is the processor, the mouse and keyboards are the peripheral nerves, i.e. the physical part is the hardware. Psychiatry deals with the programmes, the software. Neuropsychiatry is the area that studies the overlaps between the two specialities. See this article for more information.
Psychosomatic illnesses are the manifestation of emotional and psychological stress as physical symptoms. They are usually pains that don't go away, but can go as far as causing blindness or even preventing people from moving their limbs. The symptoms disappear when the underlying cause, the stressful situation, is treated.
The brain is what controls our body. When our brains are under a lot of stress, with unregulated emotions, they start to send and misinterpret the messages and stimuli they receive from the outside, often exacerbating certain stimuli or ignoring others. This leads to this emotional dysregulation translating into physical symptoms.
These physical symptoms can only be treated by treating the underlying psychiatric pathology.
As the Roman poet Juvenal said in the first century: "Mens sana in corpore sano", a healthy body in a healthy mind. With regular exercise, a healthy diet and regular, restorative sleep, you can maintain a healthy brain. You can do all the sudokus and maths exercises you like, but if you don't lead a healthy lifestyle, your brain will suffer. Preventing cardiovascular disease and keeping blood vessels healthy are among the main factors in maintaining a healthy brain.
It is categorised and proven by science that both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's have a strong genetic component. However, you shouldn't always assume that a person with a certain genetic mutation will certainly develop the disease during their lifetime. There are epigenetic and extragenetic factors that prevent and delay the onset of these diseases. Physiotherapy, a healthy diet and constant learning throughout life are all factors that protect against and slow down the progression of the disease. But these diseases are neurodegenerative and there is no cure, so symptomatic therapy is used at the moment.
We talk about what is more complex, we talk about the magic of the brain. We help those who need us.