Acute and Chronic Pain Relief
Helping Manage Acute & Chronic Pain
Everyone has experienced some type of pain, whether it’s from a stomach ache to a stubbed toe. Usually this pain is acute, or temporary, but sometimes this pain can last for weeks, months, or years. The cause, location, and circumstances for this chronic pain contribute to how Revive Therapy treats the pain and gives you a much better quality of life.
Individually Customized
Pain Management Plans
Those who suffer from either acute pain or severe, chronic pain know that their condition affects more than just the physical aspect of one’s body, but also the functional, emotional, and psychological aspects. This pain may also make even the easiest of tasks incredibly hard to accomplish. Revive Therapy is here to provide one-on-one relief that will lead to a much better quality of life.
In order to start you on the road to pain relief, Dr. Santoro will perform an assessment of your pain problems. This assessment will help to determine an accurate pain diagnosis and to help create a thoughtful, individualized pain management plan. This plan is tailored to your specific condition.
Acute Pain
Short-Term or Temporary
Acute pain is usually the result of an injury or a specific illness, and typically lasts less than 30 days. This acute pain is our body’s way of telling us that we’re performing a harmful behavior (such as lifting an object incorrectly) and to stop it. Most of the time the acute pain goes away on its own as you let your body heal; but sometimes it doesn’t get better. That’s when a visit to Revive Therapy is needed to help pin point the cause of the pain.
These are some common causes for acute pain:
- Tension-type headache (“stress headache”)
- Infection
- A sports injury
- Herniated discs
- Broken bone
- Surgery
The Effects of Chronic Pain
Handle Your Long Term Pain
Long term pain, also known as chronic pain, lasts longer than what is the typical time needed to heal. Over time, this enduring pain can become the disease in itself. It can last well after an injury has healed or can flare up with no indication of any kind of illness or injury. The effects from dealing with chronic pain can be detrimental to a person both physically and mentally and can cause disturbances in a person’s sleep, depression, anxiety, changes in appetite, and disability.
Dr. Santoro knows that suffering this long term pain can have serious detrimental effects to both your physical and mental state of mind. He is here to help you diagnose the cause of the pain and to create a plan that will help you manage your chronic pain so you live a happy and fulfilled life.
Some the most common causes of chronic pain are:
- Back pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- Migraine headaches
- Cancer
- Post-surgical pain syndrome
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome