Pain Management New Town, MO. If you are living with crippling pain, you are not alone. If chronic pain has prevented you from doing the activities you love, you need an effective pain management strategy.

Axes Physical Therapy’s team of New Town, MO movement experts has years of clinical experience connecting patients to freedom from pain. We have the capability to effectively treat pain by fitting our care to each individual, based upon their needs, goals, condition, and lifestyle. Your New Town, MO pain management physical therapist employs their years of experience and the most up-to-date empirical findings and industry practices to create the right pain management plan for you.

Contact Axes today or make an appointment online to begin on your journey to freedom from pain. Select one of our physical therapist-locally owned and operated facilitieslocations near St. Louis and across Eastern Missouri for convenient pain management from leading New Town, MO movement experts.

Pain Management: How Common is Pain?

Pain affects many, many all kinds of people — large and small, young and old — throughout the country, the world, and New Town, MO. If you are in New Town, MO suffering from chronic pain, you are not alone.

Axes Physical Therapy has a team of New Town, MO physical and occupational therapists who treat patients with pain every day. Our pain management doctors and therapists know all too well how pervasive pain is, but fortunately we have the skill required to eliminate your pain, as we have done for countless others.

The Facts about Pain

• Patients with chronic pain spend over $560 billion every year in medical costs, reduced income, and other expenses, with estimates from the National Institutes of Health putting the figure as high as $635 billion per year.
• On any given day, around 50 million adults in the United States are living with pain.
• According to the CDC, over 20% of adults live with chronic pain and 7.4% have chronic pain that interferes with their daily life and causes disfunction.
• Of everyone with chronic pain conditions, 89% have experienced the pain for at least one year.
• Pain is responsible for some of the most missed work, costing $61.2 billion a year in the United States in lost productivity alone. Of that number, 76.6% can be attributed to decreased output of workers who report to work when experiencing pain, not work absences related to pain.

All this is to say that Axes Physical Therapy takes New Town, MO pain management seriously. We recognize the magnitude of this public health threat and have decades of experience designing and administering therapies and treatments that manage or eliminate pain in our patients.

Proper, empirically supported, results-driven pain management is imperative for adults in the New Town, MO area and all over the country. The Axes Physical Therapy team of New Town, MO physical and occupational therapists is committed to providing care to eliminate pain and optimize mobility for every patient who comes through our doors. Trust your New Town, MO pain management needs to the professionals at Axes Physical Therapy.

Pain Management New Town, MO: Getting to Know Your Pain

We experience the sensation of pain when our peripheral nervous system sends signals from the receptors throughout the body to the brain. Understanding how your pain functions can help your New Town, MO pain management physical therapy team treat your pain at the source and allow you to regain peak movement health.

As someone living with pain and a perspective pain management patient, it is important to learn about the topic of pain and the type of pain you are experiencing. Pain is generally categorized as either acute or chronic.

• Acute pain: limited in duration, most often a result of actual tissue injury or damage
• Chronic pain: long-term pain, more often explained by explanations besides damage such as chronic inflammation, nerve sensitivity changes, emotions, previous traumatic injury, and changes in the brain

Symptoms of acute pain include:

• pain that lasts less than 3 months
• pain is located at the injury site
• injury site swelling, warmth, and redness
• associated with an injury or specific physical trauma
• pain that increases when the injured area is agitated or compromised, and decreased pain when the factor causing the pain is removed; if you have a knee injury, you may feel additional pain when shifting weight onto that leg, but find that the pain is lessened or alleviated when you take your weight off of that leg with crutches or when elevating it

Some of the most common symptoms of chronic pain are:

• pain that lasts beyond 3 months
• not readily related to an injury
• pain throughout the body
• unpredictable degrees of pain that are not consistent with a specific action or behavior
• pain sensitivity to even minor pain triggers
• may be accompanied by psychological health concerns such as depression, fear, or anxiety

If you were recently injured and are experiencing acute pain, talk to our New Town, MO physical therapists to discuss how we can eliminate your pain quickly and heal properly to avoid chronic pain issues in the future.

If you suffer from chronic pain, it can feel like it will never end. When you work with Axes Physical Therapy, our New Town, MO pain management professionals will establish and perform the most promising New Town, MO pain management solutions that will return you to the daily activities that are important to you, free from pain.

You need an effective pain management solution from someone you can trust in New Town, MO. At Axes Physical Therapy, we recognize that time is of the essence in working toward eliminating pain. Contact us today to speak to a movement expert near New Town, MO about your pain management options.

New Town, MO Physical Therapy for Pain Management

Living with pain is limiting, often to the point of debilitating. Pain inflicts a psychological toll on us just as a physical one. Living with chronic pain can feel hopeless and overwhelming. Our physical and occupational therapists give you hope and help you make a complete recovery and return to the life you want to live. A good New Town, MO pain management plan like physical therapy will target the source of your pain and help you cope with the psychological pain.

The medical community recommends physical therapy as one of the top treatments for individuals living with pain. Physical therapy is an data-driven approach to the body and movement and draws upon the mastery of kinesiology and the musculoskeletal system. As the American Physical Therapy Association puts it, physical therapists are movement experts who work to elevate their patients’ quality of life by prescribing exercise, administering hands-on care, and educating the patient. Axes’ New Town, MO physical and occupational therapists are passionate about getting patients back to the activities they love and eliminating pain by treating the patient holistically. Trust us to help you manage and eliminate your pain.

In addition to pain management, our New Town, MO physical and occupational therapists offer:

• Neck Pain Treatment
• Physical Therapy Clinic
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatment
• Sciatica Treatment
• Sports Medicine
• Hand Pain Physical Therapy
• Foot & Ankle Pain Treatment
• Hip Pain Treatment
• Plantar Fasciitis Treatment
• Stroke Rehabilitation

We can help you manage your pain by providing physical therapy strategies that do the following:

• Minimize tightness and inflammation
• Strengthen muscles, tendons, and ligaments
• Restore balance to the body
• Improve range of motion
• Manage scar tissue
• Improve overall functioning

Pain Management Treatment Methods in New Town, MO

Our New Town, MO physical therapists have extensive backgrounds in a wide range of treatment types and specialties. You will work with your own personal pain management physical therapist who will design the right treatment plan for you. Some of the treatment methods we might employ are:

• Manual therapy
• Exercise and movement
• Graded exposure
• Heat/Cold applications
• Trigger point dry needling
• Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator (TENS)
• Ultrasound
• Massage therapy

We cannot provide meaningful pain management unless we understand your experience. In order to address your pain and provide the safest and most beneficial care, your physical therapist will perform a comprehensive evaluation, consult your medical history, and perform a physical exam.

You are an integral part to giving your doctor an accurate picture of your condition. When you get a New Town, MO pain management evaluation, be open and offer as much information as possible. Your physical therapist may ask you things such as:

• How long have you had pain?
• How did it start?
• Where is the pain located?
• When do you experience the pain?
• What types of activities bring it on?
• How long does it take for it to go away?
• What does the pain “feel” like?
• What can make the pain feel better (lessen)?
• On a scale of 0 to 10, can you rate how much pain you are currently experiencing?
• What do you think is causing the pain?
• What is your past medical history?

Pain Management Near You in New Town, MO

When you are living with pain, you need a medical professional you trust who understands your condition and can provide you with the pain management solutions you need. Axes Physical Therapy is home to a vast network of physical and occupational therapists that are among the best in their respective specialties.

Trust a pain management professional at Axes Physical Therapy near New Town, MO for a customized pain management plan based on proven treatment methods. Call us today or find the Axes location that is most convenient for you.