Advanced Center for Health and Pain Management
Advanced Center for Health and Pain Management
For thousands of years, doctors have been helping to relieve their patients’ pain with a variety of medications and treatments. Like other areas of medicine, a new subset of doctors have become specialists in treating pain. They are focused on managing all types of pain – studying what causes it, how the body reacts to it, how different medications dull or eliminate the pain, and how other treatments can be used to relieve many painful conditions. Having pain is a difficult situation to deal with, as even minimal pain can be unbearable at times. It may interfere with your ability to work and function in daily living. It is more than just a problem for you; it affects how you interact with your friends and your loved ones. At our center, we are here to help you alleviate pain as well as make it easier to tolerate. We believe in the non-surgical intervention for the treatment of the following pain conditions:
We treat the above conditions with the combination of Naprapathic Connective Tissue Manipulation, Deep Tissue Laser Therapy and Clinical Nutrition.
While acute pain is a normal sensation triggered in the nervous system to alert you to possible injury and the need to take care of yourself, chronic pain is different. Chronic pain persists and pain signals can keep firing in the nervous system for weeks, months, even years. There may have been an initial injury -sprained back, serious infection, or there may be an ongoing cause of pain -arthritis, cancer, ear infection, but some people suffer chronic pain in the absence of any past injury or evidence of body damage.
Many chronic pain conditions affect older adults. Common chronic pain complaints include headache, low back pain, arthritis pain, neurogenic pain (pain resulting from damage to the peripheral nerves or to the central nervous system itself).
Low back pain, an extremely common problem, accounts for more physician visits than any other diagnosis except for the common cold. Many patients with back-related symptoms are seen by both primary care physicians and specialists. Symptoms are usually benign and self-limited; however, substantial numbers of patients have persistent and severe low back symptoms that require surgery or other invasive and non-invasive procedures.
Treating chronic pain can be challenging. Often the reason for the pain is not clear, and it may take several types or combinations of treatments before you find relief. When treatment is started, some people may have increased pain because their chronic pain has caused them to be inactive and they have lost strength and flexibility. However, over time treatment should decrease the pain and increase your ability to function. You may learn new ways of doing ordinary tasks to reduce pain. Often chronic pain cannot be cured, but it can be managed well enough to significantly improve the quality of your life.
The goals of treatment are to reduce chronic pain and increase your ability to function. This includes improving your sleep and coping skills and reducing stress so you can return to your regular activities. Initial treatment depends on what kind of pain you have and how severe it is, as well as whether your pain is related to an illness, injury, or an unknown cause.
Our center specializes in the management of pain. Dr. Cichowicz is a Diplomate with the American Academy of Pain Management. The doctor has been treating various types of pain for over 30 years.
But not everyone realizes that decades of research and work have led to the development of newer, more effective treatments for patients who have pain unrelated to surgery. Many techniques used to make surgery and childbirth virtually painless are now being used to relieve other types of pain.
Frequently the pain specialist and your primary care physician work together to evaluate your condition so to better manage your pain. Then the pain management specialist will develop a treatment plan designed just for you.
People develop pain for many reasons. Pain from a recent surgery, injury or medical illness is called acute pain. In many cases, this pain can be managed immediately and will usually get better in just a short time.
However our center treats patients with acute care by using certain treatments that can reduce your pain by 50% after the very first treatment. For more serious pain, however, your primary care doctor may ask a pain management specialist to help manage your pain while you are healing.
If your pain persists after the healing process should be over, you might have what is called chronic pain. If the current treatment you are receiving stops working or your pain begins to get worse over time, your primary care doctor may suggest that you see a pain management specialist like a Naprapathic Physician.
Pain management specialists are doctors that are experts at evaluating why you are having pain as well as treating the pain itself. Some of the more common pain problems may include the following:
Common Problems Treated in our clinic:
We use a combination of Connective Tissue Manipulation, Deep Tissue Laser Therapy and Clinical Nutrition.
They also manage acute pain caused by surgery, a debilitating illness or a serious injury. Examples include: pain after a knee-joint replacement, pain during recovery from a car accident or a work related accident. The pain specialist will work closely with your primary care doctor.
Medication alone may not be enough to manage certain kinds of pain. Some medicines are more effective in fighting pain when they are combined with other methods of treatment. In some cases, the patient’s pain condition may respond to treatment instead of medication. In fact, for some patients, certain therapies may eventually replace the need for taking any pain medicine, or less of it, over time. Here are just some of the available treatments being used successfully to treat pain patients.
Naprapathic Medicine – Our center employs Naprapaths, pain management specialist, that can perform connective tissue manipulation or that may suggest an exercise program tailored for you that will increase your daily functioning and decrease your pain. (See Naprapathic Medicine)
Electrical stimulation – Our center has available TENS, Interferential Therapy, and Microcurrent devices to help reduce pain. We are constantly reviewing and evaluating all new therapies so that we can offer the very best and the very latest technologies to our patients.
Laser Treatment – Our pain treatment center uses a high tech, pain relieving laser, to treat specific areas to decrease pain. (See Deep Tissue Laser Therapy)
Because this is a highly specialized field of medicine that is still growing, not every community has a pain treatment center yet. These centers are called by many different names, including: pain clinic, pain management center, pain center, and pain unit or pain service. Our Center offers many modalities to help reduce various forms of acute and chronic pain.
Throughout the generations, pain has been a unique, often misunderstood condition that affects every age, gender, ethnic and social group all over the world. It can occur for many reasons, and there is no one “silver bullet” that can cure pain. Yet great progress in pain medicine has been made in recent years and is expected to advance further as doctors learn more about the causes of pain.
| Dr. Cichowicz is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management. |
For more information on Pain Management or to set up an appointment please call:
(630) 833-4007 Villa Park Treatment Center