TREATING CHRONIC PAIN
Chronic Pain Management: Our Combined Approach
Chronic pain is usually defined as pain that affects someone frequently for three months or more. Most of us will experience pain at some time or another whether it be a pulled muscle, strained joint or even a headache but usually this heals and the pain goes away. Sometimes there is no obvious cause for the onset of chronic pain but a health condition or an injury is usually the initial trigger.
Chronic pain is caused by disrupted nerve signals between the brain and the injured area. An injury or a health condition is a common trigger for chronic pain, especially when there is no apparent cause.
As part of our approach, we investigate whether there are any other factors underlying the condition that causes chronic pain. A tailored plan is formulated that includes chronic pain management education, and lifestyle changes to reduce pain without the need for medication or invasive procedures. We use various gentle hands-on therapies to help the body relax and let you feel more settled. Your treatment plan may include osteopathy, physiotherapy, massage or acupuncture.
Having a chronic pain condition is frustrating and can have a significant impact on your life. We are here to help you get relief by giving you the tools and treatment to reduce your pain and move again.
TREATING YOU & YOUR SYMPTOMS
Chronic Pain Summary
Chronic pain is usually defined as pain that affects someone frequently for three months or more. An injury or a health condition is a common trigger for chronic pain, especially when there is no apparent cause.
Having a chronic pain condition is frustrating and can have a significant impact on your life. We are here to help you get relief by giving you the tools and treatment to reduce your pain and move again.
Treatment Key Points
- Assessing structural imbalances
- Helping you to understand your pain
- Linking your pain to your history
- Hands on treatment to balance your structural function
- Personalised treatment plan
- Working with you to a resolution
- Combining other therapies
Physiotherapy aims to ease pain by helping you to function, move and live better. Improvements may be exercises, lifestyle adaptations, hands-on therapy or acupuncture. In addition, it can help you manage chronic pain by effectively making your body get used to it or providing ways to re-establish better nerve signal function.
We work with you to create a treatment plan, and our therapist will watch your progress and adjust your treatments as necessary.
Treatment Key Points
- Improve movement or ability
- Strengthen muscles and joints
- Work on balance to improve neurological function.
- Adapt to changes in posture
- Get a walker or cane to assist you
- Get a splint or brace
- Guided exercises / stretches by your therapist
A massage aims to disturb the cycle of chronic pain to reduce and relieve any pain and prevent it from reoccurring. We use massage for chronic pain to reduce stress and increase relaxation. Sports massage is a deep form of soft tissue mobilisation. It does not necessarily have to be just for sports-related conditions.
Sports massage helps relieve muscular tension, break down adhesions, mobilise soft tissues, reduce pain and relax the musculoskeletal system.
Treatment Key Points
- Ease Headaches and Tension
- Relieve Tired Eyes
- Relax the Hands
- Relieve Neck Tension
- Loosen Tight Shoulders
- Release the Lower Back
- Reverse learned pain patterns
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