Chronic Pain
Effective care for your chronic pain.
Chronic pain is any pain that lasts longer than required by normal healing processes. Chronic pain is typically resistant to traditional treatment and can have a profound effect on you and your family. Pain lasting longer than three months is generally classified as chronic.
Physiatrists use their special training and experience in physical medicine and rehabilitation to design special programs to reduce or manage chronic pain. Treatment may include physical therapy modalities, therapeutic exercise, medications, special injections and alternative medicine techniques such as acupuncture, yoga or manual medicine.
After a comprehensive musculoskeletal evaluation to pinpoint the source of your pain, Rehabilitation Physicians will create a personal program to decrease your pain, increase your strength, promote healing and restore you to function. They offer complete care for chronic pain caused by a wide variety of conditions.
Rehabilitation Physicians also medically directs a unique program to help manage chronic pain – The Functional Recovery Program (FRP).
- Back & neck pain
- Joint pain
- Disc herniation
- Pinched nerves
- Stroke & neurologic disorders
- Sports-related injuries
- Failed back syndrome
- Numbness, tingling & weakness
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Muscle pain
- Radiculopathy
While there is no single treatment that can eliminate all chronic pain for every individual, the pain is treatable and manageable. It may include:
- Epidural steroids
- Facet & sacroiliac joint injections
- Osteopathic manual medicine
- SYNVISC® & Botox® injections
- Acupuncture
- Medication management
- Joint or bursal injections
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
The Functional Recovery Program (FRP)
FRP is a unique program for managing chronic pain. It is a comprehensive Mind-Body process to help individuals manage their pain, discontinue medications and return to their prior function. It helps optimize physical and emotional function and educates patients to understand pain. Patients progress from being a “patient” to being a whole person and returning to “life,” performing vocational and avocational activities.
Rehabilitation Physicians, with board-certified specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain, sports and electrodiagnostic medicine, also works closely with your primary-care doctor or referring specialist. Thanks to Rehabilitation Physicians’ caring, experienced physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, you are assured a positive experience that can produce the results you need.
For more information on Rehabilitation Physicians’ comprehensive approach to chronic pain conditions or to schedule an appointment, call us in Novi, Southfield, Farmington Hills and Garden City, Michigan, at 248-893-3200.