Chronic Pain Management: 5 Invaluable Benefits of Physical Therapy

Are you living with chronic pain? If you’ve had pain symptoms lasting 12 weeks or longer, you’re said to have chronic pain. Your symptoms complicate your life, reducing your ability to focus, rest, or even enjoy yourself.

Chronic pain often arises from complex causes, and treating it poses unique challenges. Dr. Bryant S. Edwards and the team at Iconic Infusions, PLLC, take a holistic approach to chronic pain management, looking at your symptoms in the context of your whole-body health and wellness.

Dr. Edwards offers ketamine infusion therapy for chronic pain from his location in Briarwood Hills, Fayetteville, North Carolina. This type of treatment may be able to help when other approaches don’t give you enough relief. 

Many chronic pain patients also improve with physical therapy (PT) treatment. Here’s what you need to know about your options for addressing chronic pain.

Physical therapy for chronic pain: benefits to know 

Physical therapy offers a non-invasive way to address physical symptoms like pain. The benefits of PT for chronic pain are numerous. Here are five key benefits of PT treatment that you should know about.

1. Noninvasive, conservative first-line treatment

Chronic pain treatments can become very invasive. Some people end up pursuing surgery to resolve chronic pain symptoms. Starting with a noninvasive approach like PT reduces stress on your body.

2. Address musculoskeletal issues

Many types of chronic pain, especially pain in the joints or neck, relate to underlying physical issues. You might have stress injuries in joints or muscles, cartilage issues due to arthritis, or trauma from an accident or injury. PT often works well to address this kind of cause of chronic pain.

3. Increase physical flexibility

Many chronic pain patients suffer from reduced flexibility. PT lets you reclaim your full range of motion with gentle, targeted stretches and exercises.

4. Provide support during surgical recovery

Sometimes, chronic pain becomes part of your life while you’re recovering from surgery. PT often forms a key element in post-surgical recovery.

5. Pair with other treatment options

A final benefit of physical therapy is that, even if PT alone doesn’t do enough to relieve your chronic pain, this approach pairs well with other treatment options that may be more effective. You can do PT and continue to explore treatments, such as ketamine therapy, that show promise for addressing and relieving stubborn chronic pain.

Dr. Edwards specializes in ketamine treatment for chronic pain, which can be effectively combined with physical therapy to access all of these benefits and more.

Ketamine infusion therapy and chronic pain

Dr. Edwards and his team treat chronic pain with a multidisciplinary ketamine-focused pain protocol. Studies show that intravenous (IV) ketamine can break the pain cycle at the level of the brain. This treatment method gives relief to many chronic pain patients who haven’t found sufficient relief through conservative approaches like PT alone.

Your safe dose of ketamine is delivered in our medspa office. IV delivery means the treatment takes effect immediately, giving you pain relief benefits that may prove long-lasting.

Talk to Dr. Edwards about how ketamine therapy, as well as wellness-enhancing modalities like yoga and PT, could improve your pain. Schedule your initial consultation appointment online, or call now to book.