Pain Management
Pain is a signal in our nervous system that something might be wrong. It is an unpleasant physical sensation or emotional experience. Pain has seven dimensions or core aspects: physical, sensory, behavioral, sociocultural, cognitive, affective and spiritual.
When is physiotherapy used
Physiotherapy helps people of all ages with a wide
range of health issues such as:
• Bones, joints and soft tissue with back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, wrist pain and sports injuries.
• Brain or nervous system with movement problems due to stroke, multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease.
• Heart and circulation rehabilitation after a heart attack.
How our physiotherapists can help
Our physiotherapy helps relieve pain through manual therapy and stretching therapy that helps relieve muscle tension and spasm. We provide:
- Manual therapy and Stretch therapy – manual therapy which include Effleurage (gliding strokes), Petrissage (kneading strokes), Friction, Compression, Tapotement (Percussion), Vibration, Joint Mobilisations and Stretches.
- Education and advice – holistic approach that involves the patient directly in their own care.
- Movement and exercise – specific stretching exercises to ease aches and pains and to get the best movement from your joints. Strengthening exercises to build or maintain strength in the muscles that support your joints.
As a guide, to help you describe your pain and discuss how it affects you, the following questions might help:
- What started the pain?
- Where do you feel the pain?
- How often does the pain happen?
- How long have you had your pain?
- How does your pain affect your daily life?
- Is your pain located in one spot or spread out?
- Does the pain comes and go or is there all the time?
- How servere is the pain? (See the rating scale below).
- How does the pain feel? (See below table for helping words).
Words To Describe Your Pain
aching
cramping
dull ache
burning
cold sensation
electric shock
nagging
intense
pins and needles
sharp
shooting
spasms
splitting
stabbing
tender
throbbing
tingling
tiring or exhausting
Pain Scale
