Hi Chrystiane,
Different pains mean different things, and should be managed in different ways.
A healer should approach your pain by first finding out about you, your pain, and the relationship between you and your pain. Before considering what treatments might be appropriate, they should start with a conversation that includes questions like these:
What do you mean by rheumatic pain?
Where on or in your body do you feel it?
What does it feel like? (eg is it like stabbing, burning, crushing, a deep aching, or something else?)
How severe is it? (Compared with other pains you've had, like stubbing your toe, bumping your head, stepping on lego, ate-too-much belly ache, getting a needle, ...)
Is it there all the time, or does it come and go in episodes? If episodes, when, how long, how often?
Does it ever wake you up at night?
Does moving help, or make it worse?
Does it hurt to touch or press on the painful part of your body?
Is there any body position that make the pain worse or better?
Is there anything else that makes it better or worse?
How does the pain affect your life?
How have you felt emotionally over the last few days, weeks, months, and years?
Do you have an ideas about what is causing your pain?
Are you otherwise well?
What do you do for work and leisure?
Do you have family or pets? Are they well?
Have your parents or any close relatives had cancer, diabetes, heart disease, mental health conditions, or other serious illnesses, particularly while they were young-to-middle aged?
How much has your weight changed in the last year?
How much exercise do you get?
What kind of foods do you eat?
Do you regularly use any medicines, herbal remedies, eyedrops, inhalers, tonics, creams, or ointments?
How much nicotine, alcohol, and other recreational drugs do you consume or use?
Have you had any surgeries?
Have you been a hospital patient for anything else?
