Previously, psychosomatics was considered as a direction in psychology. Through it, experts explained the origin of diseases. Psychosomatics is a direction that shows the influence of the psyche on the body. The disease manifests itself physically, which means that it is based on a mental illness formed for a specific reason. This could be fear, lack of love or self-realization, unresolved problems and others.
At the moment, medicine is not so categorical about psychosomatics, since in reality it is impossible to explain the origin of some ailments from the medical side. An example of this is the famous “Chicago Seven” - a list of diseases that are considered originally psychosomatic. This also includes coronary heart disease and hypertension.
Psychosomatics of the heart
From a psychosomatic point of view, the heart is a symbol of love. If a person does not have heart disease, then he can love and accept love, live in joy. But if a person for some reason does not accept love, then this has a significant impact on the organ. Psychosomatics of the heart explains that it begins to work incorrectly, literally shrinks. This leads to a person becoming more rigid, cruel and heartless. And he begins to feel the first pains in his heart.
Cardiovascular diseases are the most common psychosomatic diseases. It has long been proven that individuals who experience negative emotions, simply put, pessimists, suffer more often from such ailments. Optimistic people can rest easy because they are not in the risk zone.
This can also be explained from a physiological perspective. The more negativity a person experiences, the higher his nervous overexcitation. Nerve endings that are located throughout the body carry tension to all parts of the body. The sympathetic nerve plexus, which is located in the heart, is especially affected by nervous overstrain. It is also transmitted to the organ, the functioning of which changes, which manifests itself through various diseases.
Physiotherapy for back pain
Physiotherapy for back pain is a key step in the relief and treatment of pain. It is a necessary component in the prevention of complications, tissue restoration, and inflammation relief. The treatment regimen can use either one technique or several at once to enhance the therapeutic effect.
The use of physiotherapy enhances the effect of almost any medicinal substance, can help shorten the treatment time for acute diseases, reduce the duration of periods of exacerbation of chronic diseases and increase periods of remission.
There are a number of physiotherapeutic procedures used to treat back pain: ultraviolet irradiation, electrophoresis, laser therapy, acupuncture, Lyapko application therapy, physical therapy, massage, balneotherapy, mud therapy and others.
The use of physiotherapeutic treatment for acute pain is contraindicated, since with increased blood circulation, tissue swelling will increase, which will contribute to the severity of the pain syndrome. It is necessary to improve blood circulation after the acute pain has passed and the swelling begins to decrease. This is usually 2-3 days after anti-inflammatory, anti-edematous, analgesic drug treatment has been started.
The use of Lyapko application therapy in the acute period is permitted, but the individual characteristics of the patient must be taken into account. If the pain intensifies, then you need to wait 2-3 days, if it becomes easier, then continue treatment with the applicator.
Psychosomatics of heart pain
If your heart hurts, you should think not about going to the hospital, but about what triggered it. A possible reason why the heart hurts may be the lack of love or its lack.
Those who suffered from a lack of attention and expression of warm feelings considered themselves unloved. The same thing can happen in adulthood, and a person may feel loved less or not loved at all. For the same reason, there is another, opposite concept - giving up love in exchange for career growth. Both suffer equally, which leads to diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Do you agree with the statement that all diseases are caused by nerves?
No, I don't agree. This is a very organocentric statement, that is, from an approach that, if it connects bodily symptoms with the psyche, it is only in the sense that the psyche is primarily the brain, the nervous system, and its main characteristics are excitability and conductivity. The nervous system is overexcited—a person is “on edge.”
You need to cool it down, remove the excitement, and everything will be fine. This understanding gives rise to the idea of psychotherapy as some kind of relaxation techniques: watching the sea on TV, listening to pleasant ethno music. The psyche is still not nerves. In the article by S. Freud, which I have already referred to, let me remind you, an article from 1890, there are such interesting lines:
Medical research finally came to the conclusion that such persons could not be considered and treated as suffering from stomach disease or eye disease, etc., but that in their case it must be a suffering of the entire nervous system. However, examination of the brain and nerves of such patients has so far not revealed any obvious changes, and some features of the disease picture do not even give reason to expect that someday, using more subtle research methods, it will be possible to identify changes that could explain the disease. These conditions were called nervousness (neurasthenia, hysteria) and were characterized as simply a “functional” illness of the nervous system.
And now, after so many years, we seem to still believe in the organic nature of diseases, or in some specific organ neuroses: “cardioneurosis”, “stomach neurosis”, etc., that is, we are trying to build some linear dependencies at the structural and biochemical level. Of course, the integrity of brain structures and electrochemical activity are conditions for the existence of the psyche, but it cannot be said that it is these indicators that determine the content of the psyche (ideas, thoughts, feelings). By getting on the nerves, you can ensure that some ideas are accompanied by less anxiety, it becomes possible to distract yourself from obsessive, absorbing thoughts, achieve what in professional language is called “deactualization of experiences,” but not change their content.
Cardiovascular diseases and psychosomatics
The most common ailments considered psychosomatic are:
- Cardiac arrhythmia;
- Essential arterial hypertension;
- Cardiac neurosis;
- Tachycardia and angina;
- IBS.
In psychosomatics, the heart is an organ associated with love. It’s not for nothing that the loss of loved ones or the end of a relationship leads to heartache. The reason for this is changes in the organ at the physiological level. These changes also occur during times of fear, anger and sadness.
During the release of adrenaline with a toxin, blood vessels narrow, the heart rate increases, which leads to a feeling of fear and anxiety. Frequent narrowing of blood vessels leads to pressure surges. It turns out that increased anxiety irreversibly leads to illnesses of an important human organ.
Hostility is suppressed, and suppressing any of your emotions has a negative impact on the state of the heart. Those people who take on all the difficulties and solve all the problems are slowly but surely moving towards arterial hypertension.
Frequent increased anxiety, which can occur for many reasons. A tense family situation, constant quarrels and showdowns lead to the formation of a high level of anxiety. Then there is high or low blood pressure, nausea and dizziness. These symptoms are very similar to ischemic heart disease. The psychosomatics of myocardial infarction has the same causes and consequences, but these are manifestations of cardiac neurosis. Its difference is that it can occur in tandem with panic attacks.
Application therapy Lyapko
Lyapko applicators in various modifications (plates, rollers, application belts, application tapes) are an original, powerful device with many health-improving therapeutic capabilities.
Their action is based on the principles of traditional Chinese medicine - superficial multi-needle acupuncture, as well as on the general physiological mechanisms of life.
Mechanisms of action of the applicator.
The high healing effect of Lyapko applicators is due to a combination of intense reactions:
- reflex-mechanical;
- galvano-electric;
- immunological.
Application therapy has a pronounced analgesic and antispasmodic effect. Improves blood circulation, lymph flow, microcirculation, reduces tissue swelling. Activates tissue mechanisms of immune defense, increases the level of its own opiate peptides and anti-stress hormones in the blood, reduces the level of sensitivity of pain receptors, has a positive psycho-emotional effect and, as a result, stimulates general human adaptation mechanisms. In contact with the skin, the applicator needles stimulate the release of a person’s internal medicines, engaging his “inner doctor” in the work.
It is important to note that local (local) improvement of blood circulation during application therapy occurs without additional stress on the heart, since the work of peripheral circulation increases and the heart rests at this time. This is very important for all categories of patients and, especially, with coronary heart disease, circulatory failure of 1-2 degrees, and elderly people.
For back pain, many patients experience positive dynamics from Lyapko application therapy. It is combined with all types of medication and physiotherapeutic treatment. The ease of use of Lyapko application devices and their safety make it possible to carry out such procedures at home.
After removing the applicator at the site of its application, all pores are open for 10 minutes, so to improve the healing effect, you can apply ointments and creams that have an analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect.
Psychosomatic causes of arrhythmia
Malfunctions of the heart are the main sign that a person has lost his way in life. There is only one way out - listen to yourself. Arrhythmia is a malfunction of the blood pumping organ, which for some reason has lost its rhythm. Perhaps this is due to a busy life, or imposed rules that are not to your liking. The psychosomatics of cardiac arrhythmia is also associated with the constant bustle and speed of life.
Fear and anxiety are constant companions of a person. They master it so much that the organ cannot stand it and loses its normal rhythm. Such a person may experience constant jumps in the number of strokes. They can be either higher than normal or lower.
Low back pain due to sciatica
Sciatica is lumbosacral radiculitis, a disease of the roots of the lumbosacral spinal cord and, mainly, the sciatic nerve.
Sciatica pain comes in a variety of forms. Possible types of pain and sensations include shooting pain, burning, tingling, goosebumps and numbness at the same time. Sciatica pain can be so severe that the patient is unable to sleep or perform essential activities such as sitting, standing, walking, bending, or turning.
Shooting pains occur in the buttock and along the back of the leg. As with lumbago, they intensify with changes in body position.
Angina pectoris and psychosomatics
Angina is characterized by a lack of blood in one area of the heart. It turns out that the body does not receive a certain amount of it, which then leads to ischemia. And if you do nothing further, then necrosis is guaranteed.
Dislike for yourself and others, lack of values and dislike for your own life leads to such a terrible diagnosis. Such people are not sincerely interested in others and do not experience joy or pity. They are protected from the world by a thick wall.
Psychosomatic pain in the heart, which is diagnosed as angina pectoris, can also occur in hypersensitive people. They are used to taking all the pain upon themselves.
Low back pain due to lumbago
Lumbago is an attack of sudden and sharp pain, as well as muscle strain in the lumbar region. Occurs, as a rule, at the time of physical activity or after it, and is provoked by overheating and subsequent cooling of the body. Suddenly, within a few minutes or hours, a sharp shooting pain (“lumbago”) appears, sometimes it has a burning and bursting character (“as if a stake was stuck in the lower back”).
The patient cannot straighten up, the back muscles are tense. The slightest movement, coughing or physical stress aggravates the pain. Pressure on the lower back causes pain. With repeated attacks of lumbago, pain often appears in the posterior or posterior surfaces of the thigh or lower leg (lumboischialgia), which indicates the involvement of the corresponding spinal roots in the pathological process. Sciatica develops as a result of pinching of a root located slightly lower than with lumbago.
How to treat correctly
Treatment involves a psychotherapeutic and medication approach. Since the root of the problem is related to a psychological problem, it is worth starting treatment with a psychotherapist. It will help the patient work through a long-standing problem, thereby relieving him of suffering.
But since there are already consequences in the form of diseases, it is impossible to do without consulting a cardiologist. Prescribed medications will help eliminate unpleasant symptoms. You should not rely on only one option, since to cure psychosomatic arrhythmia which is associated with an incorrect rhythm of life, a person will need to learn to love himself and others, to accept love, depending on the disease.
Is there a type of people most susceptible to psychosomatic disorders (risk group)?
This question can be answered with the formula: “the less psyche, the more somatics.” The less understanding of the motives of my own actions and choices, the less understanding of what influences me, what feelings I am trying to avoid, how I do not want to feel, the more likely somatic symptoms are.
It is interesting that many childhood and adolescent diseases are psychosomatic, that is, with a pronounced, noticeable influence of the mental state on their occurrence and course. Thus, selective studies of children and adolescents in a somatic hospital showed that in 53% of cases, somatic disorders are caused by mental (depressive) disorders. Parents themselves often notice the connection between conflicting, tense relationships in the family and the frequency of illnesses in the child. A child has even less idea than an adult what motivates him, what ideas and whose opinion determines his feelings, his good or bad mood. When a child says “I feel bad,” the parents’ first counter question will most likely direct him to a “somatic answer”: “What hurts you, where does it hurt?” Although, perhaps, what the child is trying to say concerns a general, vague feeling of displeasure, perhaps this is some kind of mental “bad”, and not a symptom of a physical illness.
