What is Chronic Pain?
Chronic pain is pain that lasts a long time, (can be as little as 3 months to as long as many years). Pain is an ‘alarm system’ response that happens when your brain thinks something dangerous is happening to your body. With chronic pain, not only do the nerves that detect sensation become too sensitive, but the brain also creates a "pain program." This program makes the brain keep reacting to sensitive nerves, environment changes and even stress, even when there’s no longer a real danger, like an injury.
How Can Physical Therapy Help?
At PSPT we use advanced treatment to treat your pain:
Learning About Pain: We teach you how pain works and why the brain creates it.
Graded Motor Imagery: This helps retrain your brain and nerves to stop overreacting to pain.
Graded Exposure to Activity: We help you slowly start doing activities again by gently increasing movement. This helps your body get stronger without making the pain worse.
Traditional PT techniques such as manual therapy, stretching, strengthening exercises.
Common Chronic Pain Diagnoses we treat:
- CRPS (complex regional pain syndrome)
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Long Covid
- Fibromyalgia
- Chronic spine pain
- Chronic pain after a car accident
- Chronic pain after a work injury
Your physical therapist can treat these conditions and get you moving better again!
These are just a few of the persistent pain conditions we treat.
Call us at (206) 327-9880 or click the link below to schedule an initial evaluation today.