Pain Management

Pain Management Physiotherapy

Chronic pain may leave you wanting to curl up in bed with a heating pad and a bottle of medication to help ease your aches. Although doing exercise may sound like sheer torture, it may actually be one of the best pain management options for your chronic pain.

"Physical therapy can be highly effective for all types of chronic musculoskeletal and neuropathic types of pain,"

Physical Therapy: Chronic Pain Treatment Options

PT2GO Home Care physiotherapist will use a number of different types of pain management methods, , including:

• Massage

• Manipulation of joints and bones

• Manual therapy using hands or tools on soft tissue

• Ultra sound therapy

• Short wave diathermy

• IFT

• TENS  

PT2GO Home Care's physiotherapist works with each patient to understand his or her particular pain — what causes it and what can be done to manage it. This is the kind of attention that a regular doctor doesn't often have the time to give, but a physical therapist can ask questions and talk about pain issues as you are going through your exercise routine.

How Physical Therapy Helps Chronic Pain

Exercising for just 30 minutes a day on at least three or four days a week will help you with chronic pain management by increasing:

• Strength in the muscles

• Endurance

• Stability in the joints

• Flexibility in the muscles and joint

Keeping a consistent exercise routine will also help control chronic pain. Regular therapeutic exercise will help you maintain the ability to move and function physically, rather than becoming disabled by your chronic pain.

Physical therapy tackles the physical side of the inflammation, stiffness, and soreness with exercise, manipulation, and massage, but it also works to help the body heal itself by encouraging the production of the body's natural pain-relieving chemicals. This two-pronged approach is what helps make physical therapy so effective as a chronic pain treatment.