Physiotherapists play an important role in the management of acute and chronic pain. After a thorough assessment, we will make a treatment plan together with you to help reduce pain and address the roots of your symptoms to prevent reoccurrence.
Physiotherapy treatment to relieve your pain may include soft tissues massage and stretching to relieve tension and spasm, joint mobilisations, acupuncture, electrotherapy, corrective exercise, posture awareness, and advice on how to overcome pain in your daily activities. We will also help you to understand the cause of your pain.
Through our years of experience and evidence-based practice we believe that a combination of manual treatment and muscle re-education is the most effective treatment.
The sooner you see one of our physiotherapists the sooner we can start to help you.
Common pain conditions we treat
- Back Pain
- Neck Pain
- Headaches
- Shoulder Pain
- Nerve Pain
- Pelvic Pain
- Pelvic Girdle Pain
- Hip Pain
- Knee Pain
- Chest and rib Pain
- Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI)
- Muscle Pain
- Joint Pain
Understanding Pain
A physiotherapist can help you understand why you have pain in your joints, muscles and soft tissues. Understanding pain will help you to manage and overcome it.
When in lot of pain, you may just want to stay in bed with a hot bottle, take a paracetamol and not move. Studies have shown that exercise and movement is one of the best options for chronic pain. Your physiotherapist will offer advice and prescribe a safe exercise programme according to your problem so you can keep moving.
- Acute and chronic pain
The chartered Society of Physiotherapy writes:
Acute pain: short-term pains act as an alarm, telling us that something is wrong. While most minor pains are easily treated and quickly forgotten, others are a sign of something more serious that we shouldn’t ignore. For example, the pain of a broken leg is helpful because it makes us rest the leg until it heals.
Chronic pain is usually defined as pain that persists beyond the normal time that tissues take to heal following an injury. Most soft tissue injuries heal up within weeks, although some can take several months to completely heal. If a pain continues longer than 3-6 months, it is usually described by pain specialists as “chronic” or persistent pain. The causes of chronic pain are not always clear but in some conditions the pain is thought to be due to the pain signals through the nerve fibres becoming confused. The brain is then unable to understand the signals properly