Chronic Pain Recovery

What is Chronic Pain?

If you have suffered an injury, an illness, or surgery, and there is pain in your body that lasts longer than the recovery time (usually 3 to 6 months), then it is typically considered to be chronic pain. This feeling of pain can feel like it turns on and off at certain times or it can constantly persist. This pain typically impacts your quality of life – making it difficult to tend to the aspects of your daily life. 

Causes and Conditions

Chronic pain encompasses many different symptoms that could be derived from any number of causes or conditions. Conditions such as pain coming from cancer or arthritis are considered chronic pain, as well as persistent pain after an illness or surgery. Even headaches, when they have lasted a long time and the cause is unknown, is known as chronic pain as well. Understanding where your pain is coming from and why it is happening can help you get the treatment you need to start the recovery process. 

Injuries

Even after an injury has healed, you still may be suffering with the pain from it. This could be due to the injury not healing correctly, built-up scar tissue causing you pain, or an underlying issue with your nervous system after sustaining an injury. 

Arthritis

This disease impacts your joints in different ways – from breaking down the cartilage in between your joints to autoimmune conditions that attack your joints. It can leave your joints inflamed which can then spiral into chronic pain.

Nerve Disease or Damage

Injuries or conditions like diabetes can contribute to nerve damage that is causing your chronic pain. This cause can give you symptoms like burning, aching, or numbness. Infections can also cause further nerve damage, which can lead to more pain as well.

Managing and Decreasing Your Pain

Whatever the cause of your chronic pain, the physical therapists at Pick PT are trained in various techniques to help manage and decrease your pain through a natural recovery process. Our therapists have a deep understanding of musculoskeletal health and movement and work hard with each individual case to set up a personalized treatment plan based on your situation. Since everyone’s experience with chronic pain is different, it is vital to have a team of professionals who are dedicated to finding the treatment management plan that truly works for you. 

Techniques for Pain Recovery

After gaining a full understanding of your history with the pain you are experiencing, there are a few techniques and ways that our physical therapists will aid you in your chronic pain recovery. 

• Manual Therapy: Hands-on techniques that help to restore the proper function to your joints and aid in your body’s range of motion. This can help to reduce pain that you are feeling throughout your body, reduce inflammation, and break up painful scar tissue. 
• Joint Mobilization: A technique that uses force to move joints that will improve your range of motion while relieving pain and restoring joint function.
• Functional Exercise: Exercise techniques that help improve everyday movements that will help minimize pain by increasing strength, flexibility, mobility, balance, and endurance. These are movement exercises that decrease discomfort for daily activities.
• Pain Neuroscience Education: A physiological educational technique that helps individuals understand their specific pain experience and reduces the fear behind the pain as they progress towards better movement and recovery.

Building Strength and Endurance

While our trained physical therapists at Pick PT are using techniques to manage and decrease your chronic pain, they will also be helping you to build up strength and endurance to get you through it. Your treatment plans will be used to gradually strengthen your body as you work through the recovery steps. Your personalized plan will be tailored to the symptoms of chronic pain that you are experiencing and what you can physically do to decrease your pain. Starting slow and building up as you feel better is how these techniques will work to build up your strength and endurance. 

If You Are Struggling, Do Not Give Up!

Relentless pain is something that can be so difficult to live with on a daily basis. It can be frustrating to not see the light at the end of the tunnel and not know where to turn next. Do not give up hope in your chronic pain recovery. Physical therapy at Pick PT offers you a comprehensive approach to pain relief and recovery and can empower you to take charge of your health and take the steps necessary to mitigate the pain you are feeling. 

Pick PT is where you can go to start on your chronic pain recovery. Our therapists will perform a detailed initial assessment in order to create a plan of care that not only meets your needs but also works on specific goals to return you back to being you. It is our goal to help every patient LIVE LIFE ELEVATED and help you take charge of your health! It is not too late to take the steps to live a happier, healthier, pain-free life. Contact us to schedule your consultation today so that you can continue to live life moving.

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