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Widespread Pain Management
At Pain Ease Naturopathic Clinic, we utilize a multidimensional approach to treating acute & chronic pain that results from illnesses or sports injuries. Our experienced team blends years of medical experience in pain management with the natural approach of naturopathic medicine, providing you with an effective approach to gaining control over your pain!
What is Pain?
Medically speaking, pain is a complex experience which is influenced by psychological factors as well as by a sequence of physiological events initiated by physical injuries or pathologic conditions. The International Association for the Study of Pain defined it as an “unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage”
This means that treatment should be directed not only to pain but also to each person’s presentation of that pain.
When pain is presented in the body, it can result from a variety of different factors, and if the source of the pain is not treated correctly, then progress will be minimal.
Pain Ease’s approach is different: we assess the person, not the pain. Pain should be treated as a disease entity, not as a symptom or manifestation of previous trauma or a metabolic condition. Therefore, collaboration between specialized healthcare practitioners is crucial for addressing different angles of pain. In any pain presentation, neuro-functional, metabolic, hormonal, psychological, nutritional, detoxification and bio-mechanical aspects should be addressed before any structural correction.
Pain is not just physical dysfunction!
Although muscle and joint dysfunction and its consequence of pain is not necessarily a life-threatening condition, anyone who has experienced pain can attest to the potential it has to devastate our quality of life and the lifestyle we typically take for granted! Physical pain can affect every part of your life and leave you helpless, It affects your sleep, exercising, working, your entertainment time…etc.It is also hard to deal with as it is invisible, subjective, relative and intangible.
The Real Cause of Pain
It may be hard to believe, but structural damage does not always result in pain! For example, if you take two patients with identical structural damage, there will often be a significant variation in how they perceive and report their pain levels! Your brain’s association with the structural damage is the real cause of your pain.
The Body & The Mind:Neuroplasticity
At Pain Ease Naturopathic Clinic, we treat muscular dysfunction, your body’s physical limitation, and help your mind handle your pain perception. We teach our patients an important skill set: to dissociate their structural damage from any pain that they have.
Your brain is very easily influenced by itself, and a mental experience can cause your neurons to change their physical structure to process it! With repeated thoughts, we can retrain and rewire our brains as the synaptic connections between the neurons become stronger with repetition. This results in neurons that are faster, stronger, sharper, and more attuned to the experience that you allow your mind to focus on. Simply put, your brain is malleable and can change its structure through repetition. This phenomenon is called neuroplasticity.
The Tools Don’t Make a Doctor!
Anyone can buy tools and machines to help with pain, but only years of dedicated experience and a focus on pain management can put these tools to use. The ‘magic’ is actually in the skills of the healthcare professionals, not in the tools!
This example applies particularly to pain management; the more your doctor understands how the pain is interpreted by your brain, the more could be done to alleviate it. We focus on improving your functional goals (such as getting your quality of life back), the more effective the therapeutic outcomes.
Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
A method to alleviate pain is by embracing a neurofunctional approach to modulate the pain and/or other dysfunctions of the nervous system, along with their effectors (muscles, vessels, glands, immune cells, etc.). This is accomplished with a peripheral nerve stimulation technique that is performed with fine solid needles and low frequent microelectric current.
If the pathologic conditions that cause chronic pain are maintained for a long period, the nerve structure will alter itself and the nervous connectivity will affect the stimulus-response characteristics of the pain. This maladaptive neuroplasticity means that chronic pain changes the neuron structure, increasing their excitability and synaptic transmission within the nervous system. Peripheral nerve stimulation can mitigate the changes in the chemical milieu of the nociceptor terminals, which will lead to pain threshold alteration that requires initiating and discharging an action potential.
Focusing on Therapeutic Outcomes to Ensure Your Satisfaction!
Pain Ease’s approach focuses on therapeutic outcomes, in simple words, We determine your current function, identify any functional limitations and severity, work on modifiable factors, and track outcomes.
Why Do We Track Your Therapy Outcomes?
By creating a quantitative measure of the effectiveness and efficiency of our treatment, we can track your results, and also track your satisfaction!!
Pain is a complex, multi-level, unpleasant sensory or emotional experience. While pain is the target, understanding the root cause (e.g. metabolic, psychological, neurogenic, etc.) of the pain helps guide a more effective, comprehensive treatment plan.
Pain-Related Conditions Treated
Musculoskeletal:
- Post-operative/surgical pain
- Different joint pain (hip, knee ankle, shoulder, elbow, wrist)
- Tendinitis (Achilles tear, muscle cramps)
- Upper and low back pain
- Neck pain and headaches
- Post-thoracotomy pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia/Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Sport injuries
- Cancer pain
- Pain relief while you are on a waiting list for knee and hip replacement and post replacement Rehabilitation
- Post-ICU (intensive care unit) muscle stiffness and nerve rehabilitation
Neurological Conditions:
Pain Ease’s approach focuses on therapeutic outcomes, in simple words, We determine your current function, identify any functional limitations and severity, work on modifiable factors, and track outcomes.
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Chemotherapy Side effects
- Post-stroke muscle and nerve rehabilitation
- Facial palsy
- Multiple sclerosis-related pain
- Generalized pain
- Sciatica pain
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