Pain
Management
in Hand & Upper Limb Care
Pain
Pain
We Help You
Understand and
Manage Pain
Most often, wanting to improve pain is a primary reason people seek help from a health professional.
Our life experience teaches us that when something hurts, there is something wrong with that part of our body. Generally speaking pain is a normal, healthy output of our body’s warning system, designed to prevent further injury, and to protect us from any threat present in our immediate environment.
Science tells us that pain is produced by our brain and nervous system after injury, overuse or dysfunction. How much pain we experience depends on the nature of injury, the structures affected, and the way our nervous system adapts afterwards.
Our attentive, highly trained staff will help you understand what pain tells us about your condition or injury, what factors are driving your pain experience, and importantly, how to resolve or better manage these symptoms.
Acute Pain
How it feels
What might be causing this?
This pain occurs when chemicals triggered by tissue damage and inflammation stimulates nociceptive nerve endings. Your body’s computer ‘the brain’ quickly receives this message, and pain is produced to notify you of the problem. This pain will usually improve as the injury or tissue damage heals.
What can be done now?
Timely assessment and diagnosis of your acute pain origin is critical to forming an accurate solution. We are trained to help you interpret upper limb pain, diagnose the problem, and tailor a specific treatment plan for symptomatic relief, and to support tissue recovery, biomechanical restoration, and maximal functional return.
Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is pain that persists, long after an acute injury, or inflammatory episode has settled, or that develops with no clear or obvious cause.
Chronic pain is sometimes described as neuropathic pain, because it occurs when the brain and nervous system (our bodies warning system) becomes over sensitive, and has trouble switching off. Chronic pain is experienced to some degree by many people at one time or another, and can significantly impair quality of life in the absence of appropriate management.
How it feels
What might be causing this?
This pain occurs when the brain and nervous system (our bodies warning system) becomes over sensitive, and has trouble switching off. Chronic pain can occur in conjunction with more traditionally understood acute pain, and can develop as a result of repeated or sustained exposure to acute pain events. There are many factors that contribute to chronic pain including systemic conditions or illness, mental health and well being, nerve compression or tension conditions, and trauma history to name a few.
