Living with chronic pain can affect far more than your physical comfort. It can interfere with sleep, limit movement, increase stress levels, reduce energy, and ultimately impact your immune system. While many people view pain as an isolated symptom, research continues to show that long-term pain influences multiple systems throughout the body. The good news […]
Myofascial Release Therapy to Alleviate Chronic Pain Myofascial restrictions can be caused by postural dysfunction, trauma, inflammatory conditions and/or surgeries. When these restrictions occur, they can produce tensile pressures up to 2,000 pounds per square inch on sensitive structure and lead to chronic pain. It essentially creates a ‘straight-jacket’ of pain around the tissue and […]
Are You Suffering From Chronic Overlapping Pelvic Pain Conditions? We Can Help! Part 1: Endometriosis and Vulvodynia Chronic pelvic pain, sometimes abbreviated to “CPP”, is defined as “pain in the abdomen or pelvis for at least 14 days per month and severe enough to cause functional limitations” by a recent literature review of chronic pelvic […]
A recent pilot study looked at how resilience affects patients with urinary chronic pelvic pain (UCPP) conditions and chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs). Resilience can be defined as the “capacity to adapt successfully to disturbances that threaten a patient’s viability, function or development.” (Southwick et al., 2014) Resilience is now an important aspect in the […]
Chronic pain doesn’t just happen to the body. It effects our thoughts and our feelings. When pain persists beyond the body’s normal healing range, 12-20 weeks (let alone over 6 months or even 6 years) it can make us worried and upset. That worry and upset can make the pain feel worse. In fact, studies […]
Have You Ever Asked “What’s Up Down There, Doc?” Pelvic floor physical therapy is one of the best kept secrets in medicine. I was on a recent plane flight and sat next to two women that were very chatty with one another. They quickly swept me up into their conversation. Inevitably, in situations like this, […]
