Have you been dealing with chronic pain for some time now, but you prefer to see a therapist online instead of meet with a real doctor to get help?
Yes, you are not the only physically troubled individual who does that. With the emergence of digital counseling, a growing number of folks turn to it as they look for a remedy for their health problems. That is irrespective of the fact that such form of therapy is most applicable for non-severe cases of depression and anxiety.
If you genuinely do not wish to take medicine or go under the knife to cure or reduce your chronic pain, there are other alternative treatments that you might want to try.
Egoscue Method
It is best known as the world leader in non-medical pain relief. One of its central belief is that “your body will never let you down,” strategically telling the patients that this therapy is effective for stopping chronic pain by focusing on improving your posture.
Whole-Body Vibration
The procedure for this method requires you to stand, sit, or lay down on a vibrating platform. The goal is to make your entire body vibrate so that your lower back muscles may soften and gain more strength afterward.
Active Release Technique
It is a movement-based massage that mainly works on overworked soft tissues to reduce chronic pain. The process is different from other therapeutic techniques, considering the masseuse “feels up” the tensed muscles and treats them by manipulating the area that affects the patient’s movements.
Myofascial Release
This alternative therapy involves exerting pressure your tight muscles or tissues, which typically restricts you from moving. The treatment is highly ideal not only for chronic pain patients but also for those who have migraine, fibromyalgia, et cetera.
Rolfing Structural Integration
The treatment aims to rearrange or realign an individual’s connective tissues so that their motions can go back to normal again. Patients will go through what the experts call as a Ten-Series format, which can adjust their body to its regular form in a systematic approach.
The first part of the treatment focuses on relaxing the shallow tissues. The second part lengthens the deeper muscles in the body and some improvement on the person’s daily performance is already visible. Once you near the end of the program, the therapist will work on body integration and function as a whole.
Spinal Decompression
The technique relieves the pressure on the nerves in the spinal column. Inversion therapy is one of the common traction forms used to decompress the spine which encompasses being hanged upside down.
Chiropractic
It involves manual therapy like adjusting of joint and manipulating dysfunctional joints. Chiropractic treatment practices include Spinal Manipulation Therapy (SMT), Applied Kinesiology, Diversified, Activator, Thompson, Gonstead, Sacro-Occipital, Nimmo-Receptor Tonus, and Cranial techniques.
Atlas Orthogonal
It promotes “painless and safe spinal correction” by using light touches to help heal the back problems. An Atlas Orthogonist is supposed to be skilled at using a percussion instrument, which produces the sound waves that can ideally adjust the misaligned spine.
Biopuncture
It is a form of therapy that gets done by injecting active substances like arnica, Echinacea, nux vomica, and chamomile, to the skin or to the muscle to regulate the muscles physiologically. Biopuncture is mostly useful for chronic pain caused by sports-related injuries.
Prolotherapy
Also known as regenerative injection therapy, it involves the injection of a non-irritant solution to the body to treat injured connective tissues that are said to cause back pain.
Acupuncture
It is done by inserting needles to the skin to stimulate specific points in the body. There had been studies showing that back pain can be treated by acupuncture successfully by introducing needles at various parts of the body at different depths.
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)
The treatment starts by centrifuging a small amount of the blood of the person who’s in pain. When everything settles down, the expert injects the concentrated platelets at the injured part of the body. Some scientists believe that platelets have bioactive growth constituents; that’s why they can help in tissue recovery.
Neural Prolotherapy (NPT)
It merely uses 5% dextrose to resolve pain by obstructing TRPV1, a neuropeptide that generates the release of pain. The treatment will continue until the patient is completely pain-free.
Final Thoughts
The goodness of these therapies is that they’re also worthy for other kinds of body pain so smile now and look forward to your physical healing. So, you see, there’s still hope for your chronic pain and more.
Good luck!