Pain Management and Pain Relief
Massage therapy relieves both chronic and acute pain caused by inflammation or damage to the soft tissues arising from injury, stress or disease. Injury includes strain, over use of muscles or joints, repetitive injuries, as well as major trauma from a car accident, fall or other mishap.
Pain has a negative impact on your quality of life and can impede recovery from illness or injury. Unrelieved pain can become a syndrome in its own right and cause a downward spiral in your health and your outlook on life.
Managing pain properly facilitates recovery, prevents additional health complications, and improves your quality of life.
Are You in Pain?
Pain is the means through which your body tells your brain that you have a problem. Once the brain has received and processed the pain message, pain has served its purpose. The body uses natural pain killers, called endorphins which are meant to derail further pain messages from the same source. However, these natural pain killers may not adequately dampen a continuing pain message.
Types of Pain
Pain is generally divided into two categories: acute and chronic. Acute pain is associated with injury, headaches, disease, and many other conditions. It usually resolves once the condition that caused the pain is resolved.
Unresolved or Chronic Pain
Sometimes the pain signals do not stop. Even after healing or a cure has been achieved, the brain continues to perceive pain signals. In this situation, the pain may be considered chronic. The pain associated with cancer, persistent and degenerative conditions, and nerve damage, is included in the chronic category. Also, unremitting pain that lacks an identifiable physical cause, such as the majority of cases of low back pain, may be considered chronic.
Pain can also be caused by muscle imbalances due to poor posture. It’s a “chicken and egg” question. Does poor posture cause muscle imbalances, or do muscle imbalances cause poor posture? Whatever the answer, if these conditions are left unresolved, you could end up in a world of pain.
Chronic pain can set up a negative downward spiral, both of your physical and mental health. Chronic pain can be exhausting!
Massage therapy can help accelerate the healing of many acute pain producing conditions. It can also help relieve the pain of chronic conditions by helping relax the body assisting in the self-healing process. Many massage therapy techniques can be utilized to teach the body to let go of the pain and return to normal function.
Improve your quality of life!
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