Chronic pain can stem from various sources and persist for months or even years, impacting your quality of life. At Gray Chiropractic & Sports Associates, we specialize in holistic, non-invasive treatments designed to alleviate chronic pain and restore your well-being.
Pain is your body’s normal reaction to an injury or illness, warning you that something is wrong. When your body heals, you usually stop hurting.
But for many people, pain continues long after its cause is gone. When you hurt day after day, it can take a toll on your emotional and physical health.
If this sounds like what you’re experiencing, don’t hesitate to make an appointment today with Dr. Gray and see how your life can change, for the better!
Scheduling an appointment with Dr. Gray is your best next step toward eliminating chronic pain. In the meantime, here are a handful of steps you can take immediately to mitigate your pain.
Stress intensifies chronic pain, and negative feelings like depression, anxiety, stress, and anger increase the body’s sensitivity to pain. If you can control key stressors in your life, you may find some relief from chronic pain. Listen to soothing, calming music to lift your mood. Use mental imagery relaxation to create calming, peaceful images in your mind. Progressive muscle relaxation is another technique that promotes relaxation.
Exercise helps release endorphins, which are brain chemicals that help improve your mood and block pain signals. Another pain-reducing effect of exercise is that it strengthens muscles, which helps prevent re-injury and further pain. Plus, exercise can help keep your weight down which is proven to reduce pain.
As you’ve probably experienced, pain already makes sleep difficult, and alcohol can make sleep problems worse. If you have chronic pain, drinking less or no alcohol will improve your quality of life. Along with many other increased health risks, smoking also worsens painful circulation problems, so quit today and help your pain management improve.
A well-balanced diet is important in many ways — aiding your digestive process, reducing heart disease risk, keeping weight under control, and improving blood sugar levels.
To effectively treat your pain, it’s very helpful if you are keeping a daily record of your pain levels. Create a log or journal of your daily “pain score”, and at the end of each day, note your pain level on the 1 to 10 pain scale. If you also note what activities you did that day, Dr. Gray can have additional information for diagnosing and treating your pain.
Class IV laser therapy is proven to bio stimulate tissue repair and growth. Class IV laser therapy accelerates the healing process by decreasing inflammation and pain. During each painless treatment, laser energy increases circulation, drawing water, oxygen and nutrients to the damaged area. This creates an optimal healing environment that reduces inflammation, swelling, muscle spasms, stiffness, and pain.
Active Release Technique (or ART) is a manual therapy of certain soft tissue structures that is used to identify adhesions (internal scarring) that occur from acute, chronic, or pressure-related injuries, causing pain and limiting range of motion. ART releases the adhesions from your muscles and nerves and promotes internal healing.
In the hyperbaric therapy chamber at Gray Chiropractic & Sports Associates, the air pressure is increased two to three times higher than normal air pressure, providing an ideal environment and healing element for the body. Hyperbaric treatment can accelerate healing by increasing the amount of vital gases in your bloodstream to up to 3 times their normal level.
Shockwave therapy is a non-invasive solution that leverages shock waves or acoustical waves to address musculoskeletal pain by delivering high-energy percussions (or pulses) to the tissue being treated. The treatment causes scar tissue and calcific fibroblasts to break down and promotes healing by triggering metabolic activity and an inflammatory response.
Extracorporal Magnetotransduction Therapy is a noninvasive, painless treatment that uses electromagnetic pulses to stimulate tissues healing and reduce pain. It is often used for musculoskeletal conditions such as osteoarthritis, tendinopathy, chronic back pain, and sports injuries.
The AllCore360° leverages the force of gravity to train all of the core muscles in a no impact, balanced, and coordinated fashion. Using isometric contractions to resist gravity, riders engage and train over 50 internal core muscles while performing a 360° plank.
ALFA balancing training equipment provides visual stimulation;ation, promotes high reputation, increases patient engagement, eliminates compensation patterns, and fosters neuroplasticity to rehabilitate and reduce accidental falls.
The InBody 570 goes beyond traditional body composition analysis. It not only analyzes how much fat and muscle you have, but it also measures your total body water and divides it into Intracellular water and Extracellular water. With these water values, you can identify and track inflammation, swelling, and even injuries with ECW/TBW Analysis.
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