Professor Dr. Hartmut Göbel, director of the pain hospital Kiel, summarizes the newest realizations: “By picture we know giving procedures today that the male and female brain with same pai stimulus differently react. The sexes experience pain differently, and they deal also very differently with it.” In each case it is however importantly, promptly something against acute everyday life pain at head, back, to undertake joints or muscles. A crucial role comes to the movement, like professor Dr. Klaus peoples, director of the institute for sport medicine of the university clinic Münster, stressed: “There is a multiplicity of explanation beginnings, why sport works for example against headache. Which we know in any case, is that he works.”

The female pain on the trace

Three times more frequently than men women under migraine suffer, also a hurting back must it more frequently bear. “Pain could bear the common conception, women better, is not durable so any longer”, says Göbel. In psychophysischen experiments women reacted almost twice as pain-sensitively to attractions such as men. In addition, then Gehirnscans showed, the limbische system are more strongly activated, which is responsible for emotional experiencing and which provides for the connection of the woman to the family and thus for stronger protection and co-operation.

With men however rather the cognitive and analytic ranges of the perception become lively – and so urine-stunk the “defense” activates. Determines the different reactions of the sexes to pain: Women concentrate more on emotional and interhuman aspects, let themselves rather be helped, take rather medicines and go in former times to the physician. Men ignore the pain more frequently, look for explanations and causes and want the problem to solve.

With effective preventive measures and a compatible treatment everyday life pain should be promptly fought, guesses Göbel: “Otherwise complex, suffering which can be treated with difficulty, like we can develop them in our hospital see daily.” It is important to eliminate the causes such as stress and physical overloads.

Miracle drug movement

Movement and sport is a key to the prevention and management of everyday life pain, describes peoples by the example of the headache: “Constantly new positive effects of the physical activity are discovered. No matter how late and as intensive – it is always worthwhile itself to come in motion.” Thus paid when physical effort materials such as serotonin and Endorphin, which reduce the pain perception, fears to solve and the tendency up brighten. Also the condition of the containers is improved, which can lead in particular with Migränepatienten to improvements of the symptomatology.

With tension headache one should give special attention to the muscles, as emphasized peoples: “Modern humans are guessed/advised from the balance. If we must carry the weight of the head, which is supported under normal circumstances by our skeleton for muscles at the PC kauern, our for example. Spannings and headache are during a false attitude the result.” By a classical back school the complaints can be reduced, but also the Chinese Qi gong is very effective. By the way the comfortably back-leaned “Lümmeln” is rehabilitated on a chair with seat-back: „A new study showed that thereby the volume disks are loaded less than when upright standing.”

Pain killers correctly use

If despite prevention in the everyday life nevertheless pain should arise, also the income of a compatible prescription-free pain killer is to be recommended. “Pain to bear is no virtue”, got straight Göbel: “Pain killers protect the nervous system in the case of acute against excessive pain stimulation and stress. So chronic pain can be avoided.” About it is important to use pain killers with only one active substance: “A medicine of the first choice is thereby the acetylsalicylic acid. The aspirin active substance alleviates the pain, activates the pain defense mechanisms, restrains inflammations and stops the pain messenger materials.”

Combination preparations Göbel advises against however. Analyses from its hospital show that medicines with several active substances and Koffein were frequently overdosed, which to a continuous headache as well as a increased risk of stomach, kidney and liver damages can lead. In principle pain killers should be taken maximally on ten days per month. Because of the special risk of a over use the international headache company set a clear lower border threshold however for mixture preparations. “With pain, which does not fade away partout or arises again and again, one should absolutely visit a physician”, pleads to Göbel finally.

That sounds convincing, but as one comes from the couch Potatoe existence to an active and health-conscious lifestyle?

Good arguments are a first step. Lead yourselves before eyes that you do with a conversion of the life habits of something property for the health and also your beauty:

• Muscles more tautly and will know the oxygen from the blood better to take up.
• The bones will break more strongly and less easily.
• Heart and cycle strengthened, the blood pressure and the blood fat values to sink.
• Sleep disturbances and depressions decrease.
• Stress loads are better intercepted.
• The life expectancy rises.

But despite all reason a large hook remains: Each mark, if you want to leave the used Trott, announces itself to something on the inside and produces an easy indisposition. Even if it concerns only five minutes of gymnastic or the healthy purchase in the supermarket – which appointed bodyguard brakes.

Inhibition thresholds minimize

The three columns for long-term health are:

• Physical Fitness,
• varied mixture food and
• mental relaxation are.

The larger the change appears to the internal voice, the more exerts it, in order to prevent the consistent conversion of the resolutions. The internal pig dog or resistance can become extremely creative, if it concerns the excuses, why we straight today to droop: Weather too badly, time too scarcely, mad television programme, and, and, and…

How one can promote healthy behavior against the internal resistance, thus the motivation psychology is occupied. It scientists call self motivation, if humans aufrafft themselves again and again against all internal resistances. At the university Hamburg researches the psychologist Professor Gabriele Oettingen for many years about motivation. The chief of the research centre for motivation psychology examined the Ess and movement behavior of 300 women on behalf the German employee cash (DAK) between 30 and 50 years during one period of four months. Two groups were compared: One half of the women simply only planned to nourish themselves and more sport float healthier. The second group received at the beginning of a 30-minütiges motivation training. In addition these women led a diary, in which they noted Essverhalten as well as frequency and duration of their movement.

Result: Before motivated women cut off clearly better. They made approximately one hour more sport than the control group, nourished themselves healthier and still maintained the healthier way of life after the four study months.

Oettingen found out that positive thinking is not enough alone, in order to cause long-term changes of lifestyle. One must imagine at the start, which obstacles up-pile up themselves on the way to the slim sport cannon, and for each setback first a solution consider themselves.

With small steps to the goal

The fact that mental painting of a rosy future is not sufficient determined also the Sozialwissenschaftlerin Dr. Gudrun black one. It concerns to change from the pure theory into the practice. It uses a method, which the US-Unternehmerin Barbara shear end of the 1970’s had developed: with small steps to the goal. Who plans to do daily something for the physical Fitness can begin not directly with 30 minutes Joggen. “That is a too drastic change”, says to black one. It is better to begin with a step in the correct direction “is also still so tiny it; then one experiences the changes completely directly”. Because otherwise reacted immediately the internal resistance and lets each plan burst fast again. If you consider yourselves the absolutely smallest unit, which you can carry out daily, “then you can infiltrate the resistance”, black one guesses/advises.

Blacker, even the sportiest one, as it says, did not begin with seven knee bends per day. “For it I did not have to move and my resistance was this task probably ridiculous too to announce around itself.” Now the body memory comes into the play. If one stops briefly and after-feels after each training unit, what made the movement with one, that stores the body. Already after few repetitions the body has longing after this movement and the next intensification step falls more easily. Everyone must find out even, which kind of movement at the vergnüglichsten is, so black ones. That can be push-up, knee bends or Walking. “Crucial are not the beginning and the Dranbleiben – the extent.”