Pain Management
At Revival we treat many pain conditions such as back pain, neck pain, headaches, shoulder and knee pain. Physiotherapists can help in the managing acute and chronic pain. After a thorough assessment, we will make a treatment plan together with you to help reduce pain and address the roots of your symptoms to prevent reoccurrence.
Physiotherapy treatment to relieve your pain may include manual therapy and stretching to relieve tension and spasm, joint mobilisations, dry needling, TENS or electrotherapy, corrective exercise, posture awareness, and advice on how to overcome pain in your daily activities. Our physios will also help you to understand the cause of your pain so you can manage pain better. Through our years of experience and evidence-based practice our specialists will select the best techniques and methods to beat the pain and help you start a pain free life. Stop suffering in silence and book an appointment today.
Common pain conditions we treat
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Back Pain
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Neck Pain
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Headaches
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Shoulder Pain
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Nerve Pain
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Pelvic Pain
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Pelvic Girdle Pain
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Hip Pain
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Knee Pain
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Chest and rib Pain
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Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI)
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Muscle Pain
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Joint Pain
Understanding Pain
As much as treating your pain we understand the importance tof helping you understand why you have pain in your joints, muscles and soft tissues. Understanding pain will help you to manage and overcome it. When in pain, most people want to take pain killers and stay immobile till the pain disappears. Studies have shown that exercise and movement is one of the best options for chronic pain. Your physiotherapist will offer advice and prescribe a safe programme according to your problem so you can keep moving.
Acute pain: short-term pains act as an alarm, telling us that something is wrong. While most minor pains are easily treated and quickly forgotten, others are a sign of something more serious that we shouldn’t ignore. For example, the pain of a broken leg is helpful because it makes us rest the leg until it heals.
Chronic pain is usually defined as pain that persists beyond the normal time that tissues take to heal following an injury. Most soft tissue injuries heal up within weeks, although some can take several months to completely heal. If a pain continues longer than 3-6 months, it is usually described by pain specialists as “chronic” or persistent pain. The causes of chronic pain are not always clear but in some conditions the pain is thought to be due to the pain signals through the nerve fibres becoming confused. The brain is then unable to understand the signals properly
Common Chronic musculoskeletal pain
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Arthritis
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Fibromyalgia
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Chronic back and neck pain
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Headaches
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Rheumatoid arthritis
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Neuropathic pain (Nerve pain)
Pain physiotherapy treatment
At Revival, we take a holistic approach to treatment of the body addressing the underlying factors contributing to your aches and pains.
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Therapeutic Massage
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Manual Therapy
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Exercise prescription and Movement therapy
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Posture correction and improvement
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Acupuncture
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Breathing, relaxation and mindfulness
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Education
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Advice on self-management strategies such as pacing, stress and sleep
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Cold pack/Hot Pack / Infared, and electrotherapy such as TENS