What Can PT Professionals Do to Help Patients with Chronic Pain?
The therapists and staff at PT Professionals have been helping people with chronic pain for over two decades. Our therapists know that their time is best spent helping you understand what your pain means as well as how to treat it. Knowing more about your body and how it works is an important step in the healing process.
Here are a couple of common myths about chronic pain to consider:
“My pain is signaling that something is wrong with me”.
Although it is true that the primary reason we have pain is to protect our bodies from further damage, there are instances that pain persists even though the original injury has “healed”. That pain no longer signals new damage; it is a result of a complicated but predictable response in our brain and spinal cord to an old injury. Once you understand the science behind chronic pain, it becomes possible to get back to what is important to you.
“I’ve had pain for months/years- there’s nothing more to do”.
Although some pain experiences can be persistent, there ARE things that people can do to manage their pain and lessen the impact that pain is having on their lives.
The therapists at PT Professionals can help you:
- Better understand what is happening with your body.
- Devise an individualized treatment plan with YOUR goals in mind.
- Educate you so that you understand what YOUR pain experience means, making it possible to progress towards your goals.
- Safely increase your activity level with less fear of re-injury.
- Gain control of your body instead of masking your symptoms with medications.
- Reach your goals related to work, sport, leisure, and life!