Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is pain that lasts after tissues have had time to heal, and physical therapy is a non-surgical, non-drug way to calm it by building movement back up. Logos Physical Therapy treats chronic pain and long-term pain in Perth Amboy and Somerville, New Jersey, using manual therapy, graded exercise and H-Wave therapy.
Why pain can continue after an injury heals
After an injury, the nervous system can stay on high alert, so pain that won’t go away keeps signaling even when the tissue has recovered. This is sometimes called central sensitization. It is real pain, and it responds to a slow, steady return to activity.
Movement helps more than rest. Function comes first, pain second: the first signs of progress are usually walking farther, sleeping better or doing more at home.
How we treat persistent pain
- Pain neuroscience education, so you understand what your pain is doing
- Graded activity and therapeutic exercise at a pace you can keep
- Manual therapy to ease stiff joints and muscles
- Activity pacing so good days do not cost you bad ones
- H-Wave therapy, whose high frequency mode is meant to break the chronic pain cycle; see H-Wave therapy
Questions we hear about chronic pain
Chronic pain treatment at Logos is movement-based. For many people, pain management without opioids and non-surgical pain relief are the goals, and physical therapy is one way to work toward them with your doctor.
Chronic pain care in Perth Amboy and Somerville
Request an appointment at Logos Physical Therapy and a physical therapist will call you to find a time.
We see patients in Perth Amboy and Somerville, New Jersey.