Dealing with pain is no fun. Regardless of the type of problem you’re experiencing, pain can disrupt your life at best and completely alter it at worst. The good news is, your pain can be treated, and you can live a comfortable, normal life once again, especially if you live in Cape Coral. Pain management at Physical Therapy Now is our specialty.
To effectively treat your pain, we first need to identify the type of pain you’re experiencing and its origin. Once we know what that is, we can get to work.
More specifically, there are specific types of pain the body experiences:
Examples of neuropathic pain include postherpetic neuralgia (better known as shingles), diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage caused by complications of type 1 or type 2 diabetes), and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Apart from surgery (which may or may not be necessary), your pain-management options come down to medication, self-care, or physical therapy. Guess which option we recommend?
There are plenty of great reasons to choose physical therapy over the other two options. First and foremost, medication can be dangerous. Sure, taken as prescribed, pain medication can help mask and ease the pain you’re experiencing…but it doesn’t fix it long term. Once the drugs wear off, the pain is back.
Too many people know all too well, this is how addictions form. The pain is unbearable, so pills are taken one after another–before you know it, it becomes a dependency that quickly transforms into an addiction. And if you’ve been paying attention to the news, that’s a path no one should ever take, but once the addiction occurs, it becomes difficult to overcome.
Because of the nation’s opioid epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends physical therapy to manage most non-cancer-related pain. Physical therapy actually treats the pain–it doesn’t hide it.
Our Physical Therapy Now therapists in Cape Coral are ready to help you manage your pain through a few different methods, including:
If you want to manage your pain and work your way toward taking little to no medication, come check out our beautiful, fully equipped Physical Therapy Now facility in Cape Coral. Give us a call at (239) 424-9904 to schedule your first appointment, where you’ll meet with one of our staff members to create the perfect treatment plan designed just for you.