Chronic Pain Management Edmonton
Welcome to Granville Physiotherapy, where we specialize in personalized chronic pain management solutions. Our team is dedicated to understanding your individual pain challenges and crafting tailored treatment plans aimed at alleviating pain and enhancing mobility. Whether you’re facing chronic backache, arthritis, or recovering from an injury, our chronic pain management in Edmonton aims to empower you to live pain-free and regain control of your health.
What is Persistent/ Chronic Pain?
Persistent or chronic pain, which persists beyond the anticipated healing time of an injury or illness, is a complex condition that significantly impacts daily life.
At Granville Physiotherapy, we understand chronic pain impacts mobility, sleep, and emotional well-being, with causes ranging from injuries and arthritis to surgeries and prolonged stress. Symptoms include ongoing pain—dull, sharp, or throbbing—alongside stiffness, fatigue, and mood changes, with conditions like CRPS adding complexity to pain experiences.
Our chronic pain management in Edmonton offers personalized care integrating physiotherapy techniques, tailored exercise programs, ergonomic advice, and effective pain relief strategies. Our goal is to empower individuals coping with CRPS syndrome or other chronic pain conditions to manage and alleviate pain, enhancing their quality of life.
Common Chronic Pain Conditions We Treat:
At Granville Physiotherapy, we specialize in treating a wide range of common pain conditions to help you achieve relief and enhance your mobility and quality of life. Some of the conditions we frequently address include:
Whether stemming from injury, poor posture, or chronic conditions like herniated discs or sciatica, our personalized therapies alleviate discomfort and restore function.
Our comprehensive approach addresses chronic knee pain from various causes, including ligament injuries, arthritis, or patellar tendonitis, to support recovery and function.
We offer effective treatments for shoulder pain stemming from conditions such as rotator cuff injuries, frozen shoulder, or arthritis, restoring shoulder function and reducing pain.
Whether from pelvic floor dysfunction or pregnancy-related discomfort, our therapies focus on reducing chronic pelvic pain and improving pelvic health.
How Granville Physiotherapists Help With Chronic Pain?
Chronic pain can be debilitating, but at Granville Physiotherapy, we’re committed to helping you reclaim your life. Our team of skilled physiotherapists employs a multifaceted approach to manage and alleviate chronic pain. Here’s how we do it:
At Granville Physiotherapy, our approach starts with a thorough evaluation customized to address chronic pain. We thoroughly explore your medical history, lifestyle factors, and specific pain manifestations to uncover underlying causes. Understanding how past injuries or conditions contribute to ongoing discomfort, we develop a personalized chronic pain treatment plan.
Our therapists meticulously analyze how daily activities, work conditions, exercise habits, and ergonomics affect your chronic pain levels. We conduct a detailed examination of the location, intensity, triggers, and factors that relieve your pain, guiding a precise treatment strategy tailored for chronic pain management.
At Granville Physio, our manual therapy techniques are finely tuned to provide targeted relief for chronic pain:
Massage Therapy:
Our therapeutic massages focus on easing muscle tightness and knots, enhancing relaxation, and improving blood circulation to effectively relieve chronic pain.
Joint Mobilization:
Through gentle, specific movements, we aim to reduce stiffness, enhance the range of motion, and restore optimal joint mechanics, crucial for managing chronic pain.
Spinal Manipulation:
Controlled adjustments to spinal joints alleviate pain, enhance spinal alignment, and improve mobility, particularly beneficial for chronic conditions like lower back pain.
Soft Tissue Mobilization:
Approaches such as myofascial release and trigger point therapy target tight muscles, tendons, and connective tissues, reducing chronic pain and enhancing flexibility.
Muscle Energy Techniques (METs):
Active engagement of muscles against resistance, coupled with precise positioning and breathing exercises, helps restore normal muscle function and joint alignment, essential for chronic pain management.
Our holistic approach integrates specialized exercises to enhance strength, flexibility, and mobility, tailored to your individual needs. Our programs are designed to alleviate pain and prevent future issues by targeting specific areas of concern.
- Stretching exercises focus on elongating muscles and improving flexibility, minimizing stiffness and enhancing range of motion.
- Strengthening exercises target key muscle groups to build stability and support joints, reducing strain and improving overall function.
- Aerobic conditioning includes low-impact activities like walking or cycling to enhance cardiovascular health and endurance without exacerbating pain.
- Core stability training enhances core muscles, promoting better posture, balance, and spinal support.
- Mind-body exercises such as yoga are incorporated to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and enhance body awareness, complementing our physical therapy efforts.
Depending on your needs, we may incorporate treatments like ultrasound therapy, electrical stimulation, or acupuncture to enhance your recovery and chronic pain relief.
Ultrasound Therapy:
Uses high-frequency sound waves for tissue penetration, promoting circulation, reducing inflammation, and easing chronic pain.
Electrical Stimulation (E-Stim):
Applies controlled electrical currents to stimulate nerves and muscles, aiding in pain reduction, muscle strengthening, and enhancing healing processes for chronic pain relief.
Acupuncture:
A traditional Chinese medicine technique involving precise needle placement at specific body points to alleviate chronic pain, induce relaxation, and restore energy flow.
Dry Needling:
Targets muscle trigger points with fine needles to alleviate chronic pain, minimize muscle tension, and improve range of motion, similar to acupuncture but with a focus on specific pain areas.
Laser Therapy (Low-Level Laser or Cold Laser):
Non-invasive treatment using focused light energy to alleviate chronic pain, reduce inflammation, accelerate tissue repair, and improve circulation.
TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation):
Portable device delivering electrical impulses through skin adhesive pads to alleviate chronic pain and promote muscle relaxation.
Embrace Pain Relief with Granville Physiotherapy:
At Granville Physiotherapy, we are dedicated to helping you overcome chronic pain and achieve a better quality of life through personalized care and effective treatments.
Take the first step towards a pain-free life today. Schedule your consultation with our experienced physiotherapists to discuss your concerns about chronic aches and discover how we can support you on your journey to recovery.
Contact Granville Physiotherapy now to start your personalized chronic pain management program. Together, we can empower you to live actively and enjoy life to the fullest.