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How to Manage Chronic Pain & Inflammation

Holistic Pain Management That Decreases Inflammation

Are you experiencing overwhelming pain and fatigue? Holistic pain management can help.

Holistic pain management for chronic pain is becoming increasingly popular. This form of treatment takes the entire person into account, not only the symptoms of injury or disease.

Chronic pain is an epidemic that afflicts millions of people on a daily basis and is only continuing to get worse. Patients are suffering with pain due to old injuries, arthritis, tissue inflammation, or other degenerative conditions of the body.

The usual medical answer is to put the patient on pain and “anti-inflammatory” medications to ease the pain while waiting in hope that the body will recover. While that strategy can work for acute pain treatment in some instances, we believe this approach is not well-suited to chronic pain treatment.

A painkiller road to recovery is filled with potholes. It often becomes the source of health issues, such as the side effects of long-term use of these two types of medications. That’s another key reason a holistic approach to chronic pain is growing more popular.

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What is Chronic Pain?

Chronic pain is defined as the prevalence of pain symptoms that persist over 12 weeks and can last for months, if not years. Most chronic pain symptoms are dull and achy of a mild to moderate intensity. However, they can periodically become “flared up” with severe, debilitating pain.

These symptoms can interfere with normal home, work, or recreational activities and bring down overall quality of life.

Typically, people develop chronic pain when the body is unable to resolve the initial acute pain stage. Chronic neck pain and back pain are just two examples. The initial injury and pain may have been disregarded or incompletely treated with self-medication and home therapy. Or it may have been treated by a practitioner who did not recognize the danger signs of poor pain recovery.

Chronic pain can be related to the joints, muscles, or damaged nerves in the spine, trunk, head, and extremities. Chronic back pain treatment and chronic neck pain treatment are especially common, but this issue can be encountered across the body and its many systems.

It is often associated with a “post-traumatic” neurological reaction, where the body’s warning system does not function properly. Instead, the brain overreacts by behaving as if the body is continually being reinjured. This is due to the fact that the injured tissues involved have physiologically changed and improperly adapted.

To effectively treat the “causes” of chronic pain one must address both the nature of the initial injury and the various ways the body’s own healing process has gotten stuck.

Chronic Pain Syndrome

A Holistic Approach to Pain Management: Treatment Options

Whether you are suffering from chronic pain or acute pain, there are functional pain management strategies that can help. Our integrative physicians are chronic pain treatment specialists. They can help provide pain relief, decrease inflammation, and speed up the healing process.

Our experts specialize in chronic pain management using a combination of:

  • Hands-on physical medicine
  • Joint and muscle injections
  • Acupuncture and related techniques
  • Electrotherapy
  • Homeopathy
  • Nutritional therapy
  • Guided imagery
  • Hypnotherapy
  • Appropriate non addictive medication

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Chronic Pain Management differs from acute care in that the goal is to first identify the causes of the symptoms rather than simply cut off the pain sensation.

This can be done with a detailed history and physical exam and a functional motion assessment of the body. Once these physical, emotional, and nutritional factors are identified, we can offer treatment for chronic pain that address the source of the symptoms.

Because chronic pain often affects multiple areas of the body, it can take some time to fully feel the effects of treatment. The key to recovery is to focus on changing the persons life quality through improving their activities of daily living as the body re-adapts properly.

Another key part of holistic pain relief is to educate the patient about the modifications of diet, emotional stress, sleep, and physical activity that must be made to allow for healing. Patients must participate in a home care plan to aid in recovery.

During periodic reevaluation sessions, your physician will ask questions to help determine the severity of your pain and how it is limiting your daily functions, in order to update your long-term treatment plan. Each treatment session typically includes a review of changes in troubling symptoms. It also involves a focused reevaluation of the injured areas as well as a treatment procedure to assist the body’s recovery of more normal function.

The goal is to help your body heal itself with a targeted mix of methods that will allow you to get back on track to reach your life goals. Chronic pain does not have to limit your life. Our integrative pain management specialists can help you navigate the potholes on the road to recovery.

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