Chronic Pain

Recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that more than 51 million Americans experience chronic pain. Elite Medical Professionals doctors Ryan Bhagwandin, DO, and Manit Roy, DO, understand the severe burden of chronic pain and use innovative nonsurgical techniques that support healing the root cause of it. Gentle techniques like osteopathic manipulation can help you return to the activities you love, with no downtime. Phone the Piscataway, New Jersey, office or make your appointment online now. 

What is chronic pain?

Chronic pain is long-term pain. Although the definition varies, most medical providers diagnose chronic pain when pain doesn’t go away in the expected time frame or when it continues for longer than three months.

What causes chronic pain?

Chronic pain sometimes starts out with an injury, but the injury never heals correctly, so the pain continues. In other situations, it results from a chronic illness or a systemic disease. A few of the different sources of chronic pain are:

• Nerve damage such as diabetic neuropathy
• Sprains and strains
• Spinal alignment problems
• Trigger points
• Myofascial pain syndrome in the connective tissue covering the muscles
• Headaches
• Gastrointestinal problems (abdominal pain)
• Fibromyalgia
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Frozen shoulder
• Golfer’s elbow
• Plantar fasciitis

The Elite Medical Professionals team has special training in chronic pain management, focusing on holistic techniques that emphasize whole-body health. 

I want to quit my medication for chronic pain. Is it possible?

If you’ve taken pain medication for a long time, it’s not surprising that you’d like to stop using it. Pain medicine grows less and less effective over time and doesn’t actually correct the root cause of your long-term pain. 

At Elite Medical Professionals, the team of osteopathic doctors believes in a holistic approach that starts inside your body. 

With their advanced understanding of the interconnectedness of your brain, nerves, muscles, bones, and connective tissues, they can pinpoint the true reasons for your chronic pain and prescribe a personalized recovery regimen. 

Treatment plans often include osteopathic manipulation, a series of hands-on treatments that detect, treat, and prevent many musculoskeletal problems as well as issues like asthma, migraines, and other conditions. 

Osteopathic manipulation can relieve pain, increase flexibility, and even boost your energy. It also combines well with other treatments, ranging from prescription medications to lifestyle changes and, where needed, surgery. 

As osteopathic physicians, the team can create and enact a treatment plan centered around your needs. Their main goal is resolving the root of your pain and allowing your body to heal. 

In this way, you can transition away from pain medication or at least significantly reduce its use with help from the dedicated team. 

Chronic pain need not weigh you down and stop you from living and loving your life. Call the Elite Medical Professionals office or book an appointment online now.