Drug-free pain management is one of the cornerstones of Physiotherapy. You may think the last thing you want to do when you’re in pain is getting moving, but physiotherapy can be an essential part of your pain management.

Chronic pain may leave you wanting to stay in bed with a heating pad and a bottle of medication to help ease your pain. Doing exercise when in pain may sound like torture, it is actually one of the best pain management options for chronic pain.

“Physical therapy can be highly effective for all types of chronic musculoskeletal and neuropathic types of pain”. One of the goals of physiotherapy is “to help chronic pain patients become stronger because they’re usually weak from not moving enough.”

As a chronic pain treatment, the physiotherapist at our iPhysio clinic can teach you how to move safely and functionally in ways that you haven’t been able to for quite a while.

Physical therapy involves a number of different types of pain management methods including:

• Manipulation of joints and bones.

• Manual therapy using hands or tools on soft tissue.

• Cold laser therapy to alleviate inflammation and pain and release endorphins.

• Micro-current stimulation, which emits alpha waves into the brain and increases serotonin and dopamine to alleviate pain naturally.

• Movement therapy and exercise.

• Massage.