Types of Pain
Pain is an uncomfortable sensation that signals an injury or an illness. It is natures way of letting us know something is not right and makes up stop.
People experience pain in different ways. Some people may not even notice a broken bone. Whilst someone else will be overwhelmed form the pain from such an injury. There are five common pain types that we treat at Balance using the latest technologies and pain management practices.
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Adults Living with Chronic Pain in the UK
Ipsos research commissioned by BBC News surveyed over 4,000 UK adults 16-75.
Acute Pain
Acute pain can be short term, lasting anywhere from a moment to many months. Acute pain tends to be present when there is a soft tissue injury and typically heals when the illness of injury heals.
Chronic pain
Is longer in duration and can be many people live with constant chronic pain, whilst others experience it in temporary flare ups.
Neuropathic Pain
Is often due to nerve damage. It can be experienced as shooting, stabbing or burning, sometimes people can expeience pins and needles. This type of pain if often what people with chronic pian experience.
Nociceptive Pain
This type of pain is often caused to by damaged tissue, it can throbbing achy or sharp. It can be felt in joints, muscles,skin,bones and tendons.
Radicular Pain
This type of pain is unmistakeble and happens when spinal nerves, get compressed or inflamed.It radiates from the back and into the legs by way of nerve roots. It is commonly known as sciatica when it is the sciatic nerve that is affected. It is one of the most common types of pain that we treat.
Headaches and Migraines
23% of UK adults suffer from Headaches and Migraines.
Headaches can be caused by stress, anxiety and tiredness even food intolerances.
Migraines differ as they are usually an intense pain on 1 side of the head, often accompanied by nausea, light sensitivity and vomiting. Migraines are often very debilitating.
If headaches are new, it is important to exclude any serious so you should first make an appointment with your GP.
We offer several therapies that may assist with your pain and our qualified staff at Balance Health Centre will be pleased to advise you.
Our most popular services with migraine sufferers include:
Head and Neck Pain
There could be a number of causes for your head and neck pain.
If it is a new pain, it is important to exclude any serious so you should first make an appointment with your GP.
The most common causes that we come across in our clinic are often caused by stiff neck ligaments due to poor posture, prolapsed discs, trapped nerves, joint inflammation and Osteoarthritis.
We offer several therapies that may assist with your pain and our qualified staff at Balance Health Centre will be pleased to advise you.
Our most popular services with patients struggling with head and neck pain include:
Shoulder Pain
The shoulder is actually several joints that combine with tendons, ligaments and muscles. Together these allow the arms to move in multiple directions.
The typical problems we see in our clinic is from patients with frozen shoulders, tendonitis, bursitis, arthritis.
We offer several therapies that may assist with your shoulder pain and our qualified staff at Balance Health Centre will be pleased to advise you.
Our most popular treatments for shoulder pain are;
Knee Pain
Knee pain can be caused by several different conditions.
Typical knee pain causes are sprains, strains, tendonitis, torn ligaments or cartilage damage, arthritis.
We offer several therapies that may assist with your shoulder pain and our qualified staff at Balance Health Centre will be pleased to advise you.
Our most popular treatments for Knee pain are;
Muscle Pain
Painful muscles also called myalgia, can be caused by injury, disease or infection. You might feel a consistent aces or irregular sharp stabbing pain.
Some people may feel muscle pain everywhere whilst others feel pain in specific locations.
At Balance we see people of all ages that struggle with muscle pain and we offer several therapies that may assist.
Our most popular treatments for muscle pain are;
Chest, Ribs and Muscle Pain
It is important to note that if you experience any new pain in the chest area it is important to exclude serious health conditions, so you should first make an appointment with your GP.
Chest pain originating from the ribs is usually a sign of intercostal sprain. Simply coughing harshly for long periods can result in this strain and pain in this region is very common.
Symptoms of this muscle stain includes, sharp pain when bending or stretching, tenderness and sore to the touch, tightness and swelling.
At Balance we see people of all ages that struggle with this type of muscle pain and we offer several therapies that may assist.
Our most popular treatments for this pain are;
Upper Arm Pain
The source of upper arm pain can be located in another area of the upper body and referred. The root cause of such pain may be due to a shoulder injury or even a trapped of injured nerve in the neck. If upper arm pain occurs after exertion you should seek urgent advice from the hospital or GP.
At Balance we seek to treat the source of the pain using the latest technologies and therapies.
Popular options for treating arm pain arm
Painful Wrist
At Balance we seek to treat the source of the pain using the latest technologies and therapies.
Popular options for treating arm pain are
Pain in the Forearm
At Balance we seek to treat the source of the pain using the latest technologies and therapies.
Popular options for treating arm pain are
Hip and Pelvic Pain
At Balance we seek to treat the source of the pain using the latest technologies and therapies.
Popular options for treaing arm pain are
Pain in the Upper Back
At Balance we seek to treat the source of the pain using the latest technologies and therapies.
Popular options for treating arm pain are
Pain in the Lower Back
At Balance we seek to treat the source of the pain using the latest technologies and therapies.
Popular options for treaing arm pain are
Thigh and Upper Leg Pain
At Balance we seek to treat the source of the pain using the latest technologies and therapies.
Popular options for treating arm pain are
Calf and Lower Leg Pain
At Balance we seek to treat the source of the pain using the latest technologies and therapies.
Popular options for treating arm pain are
Painful Ankle
At Balance we seek to treat the source of the pain using the latest technologies and therapies.
Popular options for treating arm pain are
Elbow Pain
At Balance we seek to treat the source of the pain using the latest technologies and therapies.
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