- Taking medications
- Infiltrative therapies
- Taking nutraceutical preparations
- In cases of muscle contracture that do not respond to other therapies, or if you cannot take other medications, it can be appropriate to apply myofascial infiltrations
- For the treatment of rheumatic pains, dermal (or mesotherapy) infiltrations can be evaluated that consist of injecting small amounts of medications (or other preparations) directly under the skin where the problem is located
- For specific problems, peritendinous, periarticular, and articular infiltrations can also be performed
- Dry needling, performed with very thin needles in pain activation areas related to muscle stiffness and tension
- Acupuncture , a technique with a millennia-old history, now widely approved by major health institutions for the treatment of pain of various origins and for many other conditions that often do not respond to pharmacological treatments
What is pain?
Pain, in its acute form, is a normal mechanism of our body, and it serves to protect us from dangerous situations that could harm us. For example, putting a hand in boiling water triggers a mechanism that causes pain and the instant removal from danger to safeguard our health.
However, there are situations where pain maintains itself and becomes chronic through specific mechanisms, losing its function as a defense mechanism and transforming itself into a pathology.
Pain should not be tolerated. It should be treated as soon as possible to stop all those mechanisms that cause its chronicization
What is pain therapy?
Pain therapy, or analgesic therapy, is a branch of anesthesia that deals with treating and reducing pain of any origin with the aim of improving the quality of life of patients
This discipline encompasses all pharmacological, infiltrative, interventional, and behavioral techniques to fight pain
What types of pain can be treated?
Both acute and chronic pain can be treated
Pain can be defined as chronic if it persists for more than three months, meaning it has lost its function as an “alarm bell for the body” and has turned itself into a “pain disease”
The most common and successfully treated pains are: osteoarthritis, joint pains in the shoulder, knee, and hip, lower back pain (back pain) and sciatica, neck pain (pain in the neck and shoulders), trigeminal neuralgia, post-herpetic pain (shingles), fibromyalgia, headaches, sports-related injuries
The visit always starts with a detailed investigation of the patient’s general health condition, then delving into the location of the pain, its duration, and its characteristics.
For this reason, I advise you to bring all health documentation to the visit: recent diagnostic tests (within the last two years), specialist visits, and a detailed list of medications you are taking
This is followed by a search for signs to identify the specific cause of the pain and thus the most appropriate treatment
What are the pain therapy treatments?
The strategies for treating pain are numerous and can often be used together to get the best benefit from each of them
My method integrates the knowledge of modern medicine and the centuries-old knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine to achieve the best result with fewer side effects
The treatments I apply are the result of the most authoritative and up-to-date scientific literature, and based on your situation can include:
Medications to be taken are prescribed always evaluating with the utmost care the balance between benefits and possible side effects or interactions with other drugs you are already taking.
Nutraceutical preparations are essences extracted from plants, minerals, microorganisms, or molecules of substances that are naturally produced by our body.
If used in the most appropriate way, they have beneficial effects on our body without many of the side effects of drugs.
In addition to these treatments, which you can take independently, it is sometimes appropriate to combine also infiltrative therapies:
If the side effects of treatments have themselves become a problem, there are many treatments that do not involve the use of drugs (thus having no side effects) and have proved to be very effective.
To date, the ones I apply with the greatest success reported by patients are undoubtedly
I will carefully evaluate and possibly recommend some of these treatments if beneficial for your health