Persistent pain used to be called chronic pain. It simply means that you have had pain for 3 months or more.
Pain for a long time can be very distressing, it can change how you feel about going out, walking, meeting friends.
Over a long time pain also often seems to affect more areas of your body. Shoulder pain can affect your whole arm and into your neck. Lower back pain can be felt down both your legs to your feet, then seem to radiate up your back.
Persistent pain will lower you mood and reduce your energy, especially if you are not seeping well at night.
If you have had an injury that has just felt worse and worse over time, or had back pain that has just gotten worse despite investigations and treatment that means you have Chronic pain.
With Chronic / persistent pain, I do not claim to succeed in making you better, However I do promise to offer you the time to discuss your feelings , and I will only give you repeat treatments if I feel I can offer you a realistic way to manage your pain. Manage means – that you learn how to avoid the worst feelings about your pain.
Pain science over the last 20 years has taught us that we really can help, we understand now that pain is affected by many things. It is affected by lack of sleep, it is affected by fear of how we will cope at work. It is affected by how we feel about our test results and scan results. It is certainly made more severe by anxiety or stress.
Specialist Physiotherapy has been shown to help manage symptoms, and lead to enhanced recovery.