If you have been able to use physical therapy to get out of chronic pain

[Anonymous]

Look up books for Dr John Sarno and Curable pain app

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PT helped me with chronic tailbone pain. One PT helped things improve quite a bit after several sessions. I think I saw her maybe 10 times? Big improvement but didn't cure me. About a year later, I sought out another PT who I'd heard amazing things about (might have been on this board lol). And indeed, she was amazing. Completely solved my problem. Several years later I sometimes feel some achiness but I know just what to do to calm things down.

Amazing PT is in private practice and doesn't take insurance. Sadly, I think that's the case for almost all ther really good PTs.

Can you pls share her info?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look into counterstrain - it is a new form of pt that helped me so much with chronic head, neck and jaw pain.

+1

Here is info on counterstrain. It is really what broke the pain cycle for me.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK562152/

https://counterstrain.com/

Any recommended practitioners?

[Anonymous]

Jason Glickman in Gaithersburg or you can drive to Frederick, MD to Tuckey and Associates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What has that experience been like for you? What were your issues? Who did you see?

I’ve tried so many other things with no success. Perhaps if I work diligently to get my body into better shape and mobility things might improve.

I've had good - great experiences with physio.

A bit of background. I'm 53 and have Cerebral Palsy. That itself leads to chronic pain in my life. Numerous falls and various injuries adds to it, the big ones (ongoing pain wise) being torn rotator cuffs. I also use a walker so my shoulders take on more weight and pressure than they are intended for. I've also had herniated discs in my back twice. Lack of mobility and pain CAN be major factors.

I see a physiotherapist off and on to manage all of this. She helped get my rotator cuff healed without surgery. Very gentle stretches to start with, then moved on to building strength and shockwave
therapy to breakup a calcification and encourage healing.

For my back/hips/calves/hamstrings - a lot of stretches. If I do the optimal then I do 20 mins twice per day just on stretches. Then add in strength to keep things where they are supposed to be. She also did dry needling for my back and glutes. That was a game changer.

I also see someone else for acupuncture from time to time.

Op, I used to DESPISE physiotherapists. Yes, that needed to be capitalized. 😉 The amount of pain that outdated thinking caused was pretty big. Now I'm a huge proponent for it.

Try it. Good luck,

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What has that experience been like for you? What were your issues? Who did you see?

I’ve tried so many other things with no success. Perhaps if I work diligently to get my body into better shape and mobility things might improve.

I've had good - great experiences with physio.

A bit of background. I'm 53 and have Cerebral Palsy. That itself leads to chronic pain in my life. Numerous falls and various injuries adds to it, the big ones (ongoing pain wise) being torn rotator cuffs. I also use a walker so my shoulders take on more weight and pressure than they are intended for. I've also had herniated discs in my back twice. Lack of mobility and pain CAN be major factors.

I see a physiotherapist off and on to manage all of this. She helped get my rotator cuff healed without surgery. Very gentle stretches to start with, then moved on to building strength and shockwave
therapy to breakup a calcification and encourage healing.

For my back/hips/calves/hamstrings - a lot of stretches. If I do the optimal then I do 20 mins twice per day just on stretches. Then add in strength to keep things where they are supposed to be. She also did dry needling for my back and glutes. That was a game changer.

I also see someone else for acupuncture from time to time.

Op, I used to DESPISE physiotherapists. Yes, that needed to be capitalized. 😉 The amount of pain that outdated thinking caused was pretty big. Now I'm a huge proponent for it.

Try it. Good luck,

That’s wonderful! Are you local? Can you share your therapist?

[Anonymous]

I'm terrible about physiology, so the PT was good in helping me identify the root cause of the pain, and some exercises I can do.

After they identify the issue and give you some exercises, I see no point going there to just do the exercises and have the PT spend like 10min with you while they also keep an eye on other patients who are doing their exercises. I end up spending 1+ hour there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm terrible about physiology, so the PT was good in helping me identify the root cause of the pain, and some exercises I can do.

After they identify the issue and give you some exercises, I see no point going there to just do the exercises and have the PT spend like 10min with you while they also keep an eye on other patients who are doing their exercises. I end up spending 1+ hour there.

This was worth it to me because they had exercise machines (an arm bike) and tools my gym doesn’t have and that I don’t want to buy for my home.

[Anonymous]

Novacare tends to have good practitioners.

Their offices in Laurel, Bethesda, and Greenbelt have been good.

I went for my neck, a frozen shoulder, and an ankle issue.

I suffered from neck pain for years and didn’t even consider or understand a PT could help until the pain got so bad I visited my doctor. Wow!! The PT’s massage loosened the tightness in one visit but I knew more could be done. It took about ten visits to fix it.

With the ankle, they helped me get ready to go hiking and made me feel more secure about the uneven terrain. I then walked around 12 miles a day in London for eight days and was fine.

When my other shoulder froze, I didn’t feel a need to go in and did exercises at home.

For some issues, it’s better to go in person for longer if you need the massage or a special tool that you can’t replicate at home.

[Anonymous]

The only PT person who actually made a difference was one who did dry needling. And she no longer practices. But I believe my pain was due to really tight muscle fibers that happened to be near a bundle of nerves. Once the tight muscle fibers were released, the pain was gone immediately.

[Anonymous]

I had success with a PT that did dry needling for plantar fasciitis. I'm having slow success with PT for a low back injury causing sciatic pain. Not sure if that is due to PT or time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Novacare tends to have good practitioners.

Their offices in Laurel, Bethesda, and Greenbelt have been good.

I went for my neck, a frozen shoulder, and an ankle issue.

I suffered from neck pain for years and didn’t even consider or understand a PT could help until the pain got so bad I visited my doctor. Wow!! The PT’s massage loosened the tightness in one visit but I knew more could be done. It took about ten visits to fix it.

With the ankle, they helped me get ready to go hiking and made me feel more secure about the uneven terrain. I then walked around 12 miles a day in London for eight days and was fine.

When my other shoulder froze, I didn’t feel a need to go in and did exercises at home.

For some issues, it’s better to go in person for longer if you need the massage or a special tool that you can’t replicate at home.

Can you pls share the name of the pt who worked on your neck?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What has that experience been like for you? What were your issues? Who did you see?

I’ve tried so many other things with no success. Perhaps if I work diligently to get my body into better shape and mobility things might improve.

Didn’t work for me.