Is Inflammation Ruining Your Life?
Whether in the joints or muscles, spine or nerves, inflammation can leave you distracted from life and unable to fully relax. Discover new and traditional ways to relieve inflammation without putting your kidneys or liver at risk with painkillers and other medications.
Joint Injections
At Spinal Health & Physical Medicine in New Haven, we offer inflammation and joint injections to deliver fast-acting pain relief right where you need it. Sarapin, synthesized cortisol and mild anesthesia are all available.
Benefits of having joint injections include:
- Localized pain relief: Resolving the irritation in your knee shouldn’t affect the rest of your body.
- Rapid, long-lasting results: You may begin to feel pain relief before you even leave the office. You could remain pain-free and with a broader range of motion for several weeks.
- Few side effects: Injections don’t damage your kidneys or liver the way painkillers do.
- Dependability: Injections usually work for everyone, even patients who normally don’t get relief from traditional painkilling medications.
- Speed of delivery: The process takes only a few minutes and there’s no recovery time.
Massage Therapy
While a good massage is normally associated with relieving muscle tension, it also works wonders on inflammation. Don’t think of massage therapy as nothing more than an indulgence; think of it as a way to manage compressed nerves, scoliosis, sciatica and other spinal or nerve issues.
Massage therapy provides these benefits:
- Non-invasive: A relaxing treatment is free from needles and requires no recovery period.
- Affordable: For many patients, massage therapy alone provides relief from their symptoms. A few massages per year could keep you pain-free at a much lower cost than more intensive treatments.
- Complementary: Even if you require other treatments, massage therapy sessions only complement them.
- Better overall health: In addition to treating specific issues, massage also increases blood circulation and releases both physical and emotional tension.
- Faster recovery time: Minor injuries heal faster when you seek massages for the affected area.
Electrostimulation
Patients with neuropathy have damaged or defective nerves, which sometimes causes inflammation resulting in chronic pain and fatigue. Depending on the cause, electrostimulation may be the best treatment option. This is when direct impulse currents are applied for a specific duration to excite and activate certain nerves.
Patients with permanent nerve damage or other chronic conditions often find that electrostimulation, in combination with massage therapy, is enough to keep their symptoms under control without the need to take damaging medications.
Trigger Point Therapy
If you struggle with unexplained inflammation and tenderness, trigger point therapy could be the treatment you’re looking for. This is when little knots of tension in your back and neck are manipulated to release pain throughout your entire body. It may not sound logical, but a nerve compressed by a tension knot in your neck could cause numbness in your feet.
You could benefit from trigger point therapy if:
- You overload your muscles on a daily basis.
- You have a stress-inducing psychological disorder.
- Your muscles have been traumatized by strains, tears, car accidents or sports injuries.
- You have suffered from a systemic or localized infection.
- Bad posture puts undue strain on your back and neck.
Vibration Exercise
This technology was originally used to keep astronauts’ muscles from atrophying in zero gravity. Today, vibration exercise machines are available from healthcare professionals to treat a wide range of conditions.
When used in the proper intervals, benefits of vibration exercise include:
- Increased blood circulation to accelerate healing following a spinal injury.
- Improved balance for older adults.
- Greater flexibility and range of motion made possible by reduced tension and inflammation.
- Higher bone mineral density to help prevent hip or shoulder breaks.
Identifying Which Treatment to Pursue
Before the professionals at Spinal Health & Physical Medicine choose any of the above methods to treat your inflammation, we take the necessary steps to test and indentify the causes behind your condition. Two of these methods include:
- Diagnostic ultrasound: This allows us to spot inflammation and damaged tissues and cartilage that go unseen in an x-ray.
- Advanced nerve testing: This technique is used to rule out certain problems before asking you to invest time and money in a specific treatment option.
Whether you know the cause of your inflammation or you still need a diagnosis, contact Spinal Healthcare & Physical Medicine or call us at (260) 493-6565 to set up an appointment at our New Haven office.
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