Chronic Pain Management Northern Beaches
The Fixio team are compassionate experts in managing difficult, complex and chronic presentations of pain. You’re in the right place.
What is chronic pain?
Pain is regarded as being “chronic” in nature when it does not go away and is experienced by a patient on most days of the week for at least 3 months. This is the medical definition of chronic. On the Northern Beaches, we at Fixio treat many patients who self define their pain as “chronic” because it is incredibly intense. We are experts at treating chronic pain; whether it is very painful, has been going on for a long time or both!
Here are some facts about chronic pain:
- 1 in 5 Australians suffer from chronic pain
- The leading cause of chronic pain is reported to be injury, commonly from playing sport, car accidents, home accidents and work accidents.
- Most people (>60%) with chronic pain report that their pain interferes with their daily activities.
- It interferes with a person’s sleep patterns, their sexual activity, their ability to work and conduct daily activities
- It can cause emotional distress and lead to serious mental health problems, including depression.
Chronic pain is treated by traditional practitioners with a low success rate. There are multiple considerations that need to be taken into account when treating someone with chronic pain and the answer doesn’t have to be long term medication, injections or surgery!
Do you want to take less medication and prevent injections and surgery?
Medication alone is not the most effective way to treat chronic pain.
It is best managed using a combination of different approaches. The combination may include pain-relief medication, but must include:
- Strength and conditioning of your body
- Mobility training
- Encouragement to do challenging tasks
- A supportive environment and team
- Mindful ativities
- Education around stress reduction
At Fixio our core measures for improvement are based around strength, flexibility and capacity for doing activities that are meaningful to you.
We have found in supporting people in chronic pain over the past decade that the “use it or lose it” principle plays a large role in your activity levels. If you are less active over time, due to your pain, you may start to lose muscle mass, flexibility, and strength. With less use your body finds it more difficult to carry out regular daily activities.
THE NORTHERN BEACHES MOST TRUSTED SPORTS INJURY AND PAIN CLINIC
How do I know I’m in good hands?
Our clinic director, Damien, had chronic pain for 7 years. After a car accident at 17 he was left with constant, day-in day-out low back pain. It severely affected his life, unable to play sport as he wished or participate in activities with his friends.
He experienced the frustration of seeing multiple different practitioners and being told different diagnoses. Yet through perseverence, research and some mindset shifts, Damien once again became painfree and can participate fully in life fully.
The approach that he used to become painfree has been taught to the Fixio team. They are all well versed in the steady pace that it requires to break free from the pain cycle. You will feel it after your first sessio with us, that you are in the right place to get results.
If you would like to speak to Damien about his experience and hear his story, he’d love to speak with you. Call us on 8964 4086 and ask for a call back.
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We have multiple practitioners who are experts at helping people with chronic pain states. Damien and Hayden have specifically trained in this area. Dan is also excellent with rehabilitation of chronic low back pain as someone who had low back surgery at a young age.
In the early phases of rehabilitating from chronic pain, all of your corrective exercises can be completed from the comfort of your own home. As you build strength and confidence we can progress you into our in house pilates studio. If you wish to return to the gym or to sport, we can write a program that facilitates this.
With both personal experience as well as study, the Fixio team have become the go-to practice for treating chronic pain. We regularly treat other medical practitioners such as specialists, chiropractors and other physiotherapists.
We get it. We’ve been there. We’ve felt the fear of another attack or the lingering pain after doing certain activities. And we’ve also helped hundreds of people just like you. Give us a call to put your mind at ease.