Pain management can be a challenge weather you are using holistic pain management or conventional pain management. At our Phoenix pain center we understand that when you're in pain, everything suffers - your work, your hobbies, your relationships, your self-esteem and your hope that things will ever get better. This is why we seek to not only control and manage your pain, we seek to give you lasting pain relief therapy.
It is estimated that more than 50 million Americans live with chronic pain on a daily basis! Most are either resigned to the fact that their pain will never go away, or that they will be on prescription pain killers for the rest of their lives. This is not true. If you or someone you care about is in pain, you need to know - holistic pain management and pain relief therapy is possible.
Your pain is there to tell you something. Masking it with medications may numb you to its presence, but pain is the symptom of a problem that will persist in your body until a trained health professional takes the time to find its source. And that is precisely what we do here at Southwest Integrative Medicine. Click to see what others are saying about our pain management doctors.
Extensively trained in holistic health care, we find that using integrative approaches to manage pain works best. Though natural pain management is what we strive for, we find that prescription medication are more effective when prescribed in conjunction with natural therapies prescription. It is not uncommon for our chronic pain patients to be able to stop their pain medications with little or no pain.
Our phoenix pain treatments starts by knowing you and knowing the source of your pain. The cause of your pain may stem from more than once source in your body, but there is often an underlying theme that connects the sources:
- Tissue damage. When cells are damaged - from car accident injuries to autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus - these damaged cells release chemical messengers to alert the immune system that something is wrong. In response, the immune system creates inflammation that causes the pain. Getting rid of the pain means finding pain relief therapy that can heal the damaged cells.
- Inflammation. Any number of conditions can cause inflammation leading to, like arthritis pain, fibromyalgia pain, chronic sinusitis pain, pain from muscle spasms, joint dysfunction pain and migraines. The automatic response among most conventional doctors is to treat the symptom(s) with medications that cover up the problem. But not only do these pain killers have unwelcome side effects, they also prevent you from discovering and treating the true source of your illness, which is the only true path to healing.
- Structural imbalances. When your joints are unaligned because of structural imbalances - such as postural problems, injures or over-worked muscles - it creates friction and pulling. This can lead to tissue damage, which is the cause of the inflammation that triggers muscle spasms and, of course, pain. So stopping the pain means assessing and correcting this structural imbalance.
- Tight muscles. Whether stemming from old injuries or an inherent lack of flexibility, tight muscles can cause muscle spasms. These spasms press on nerves and pull structures out of alignment, which creates tissue damage, then inflammation, then pain. We can help release the tightness in your muscles with pain relief therapies so that your joints can be restored to normal alignment - for back pain phoenix, neck pain, migraines, headaches and more.
- Qi Stagnation. Generally speaking, when there is pain in the body, there is some form of Qi stagnation. Qi is an energy in your body that moves through a network of channels. Qi stagnation occurs when one or more of these channels are blocked. Through acupuncture, we can release these blocks. Here is an analogy to think about, think of a river with a small eddy in it. If you place a stick in the middle of the eddy, the water will disperse and flow evenly. This is the goal with acupuncture - to disperse your Qi so this energy can flow evenly throughout your body. It is this process that pain management acupuncture works.
