COMMON HEALTH CONDITIONS WE TREAT
Chronic Pain Treatment

Chronic Pain Treatment
Do you suffer from chronic pain? Are you looking for help and don’t know where to turn? Have you gone from doctor to doctor seeking help but were dismissed or given pain pills and other medications to mask your symptoms? You are not alone, and there is hope!
Chronic pain is becoming increasingly prevalent in the United States and around the world. According to an Institute of Medicine Report from 2011 about 100 million U.S. adults alone suffered from chronic pain. This means that chronic pain affects more people than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined. The number of chronic pain sufferers continues to rise and the cost of diagnosis and treatment has reached over $600 billion. Sadly in many cases, the root causes are not being uncovered and treated properly and people continue to suffer from chronic pain on a daily basis, severely inhibiting their quality of life.
What is Chronic Pain?
There are two kinds of pain: acute pain and chronic pain. Acute pain is a normal response in the body to some sort of injury or problem, alerting a person that something is wrong. It shows up, is treated and heals, and goes away. Chronic pain is pain that persists over long periods of time and is usually classified as pain that has persisted for more than 3 months.
With chronic pain the signals that fire with acute pain continue to fire for weeks, months, and even years. Sometimes an injury or illness starts the chronic pain cycle and continues from there. At other times, no injury or initial cause appears to be present.
Although chronic pain is more likely to affect older adults as they age, incidences of chronic pain are showing up in younger and younger populations. Surprisingly many of these cases aren’t being reported because young people want to be normal and fit in so they’re ignoring their pain and just living with it.
Physical Symptoms of Chronic Pain
Symptoms of chronic pain can include persistent pulsing, shooting, burning, aching, stinging, or electrical pain anywhere in the body. It can also be felt as discomfort, tightness, soreness, or stiffness. Chronic pain sufferers report the following types of pain:
- Low-back pain
- Headaches and migraines
- Muscle pain and stiffness
- Bone / joint pain and stiffness
- Facial pain
- Neck pain
- Intestinal or stomach pain
- Ear and eye pain
- Pain in the limbs and extremities
Other Symptoms of Chronic Pain
Chronic pain can also lead to emotional and social difficulties as sufferers deal with the never ending pain. Chronic pain sufferers may deal with:
- Mood disorders
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Isolation
- Irritability
- Anger
- Chronic fatigue
- Inability to work or go to school
- Inability to carry out tasks of daily life such as eating, bathing, and house cleaning
- Inability to care for children or others
- Inability to participate in social activities
- Inability to drive
- Inability to exercise
Causes of Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed and therefore never properly addressed. At LifeWorks Wellness Center we know that the root causes of chronic pain can be due to:
- Gastrointestinal Disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Chronic Illness
- Cancer
- Spinal issues resulting in nerve impingements
- And many, many other reasons
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727-466-6789
727-451-1010
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301 Turner Street
Clearwater, FL 33756
Clearwater, FL 33756
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How We Treat Chronic Pain Differently
Conventional medicine may ignore chronic pain or try to cover it up with pain medications. This quote from the report Relieving Pain in America shows just how bleak the outlook is with conventional medicine:
“For many patients, treatment of pain is inadequate not just because of uncertain diagnoses and societal stigma, but also because of shortcomings in the availability of effective treatments and inadequate patient and clinician knowledge about the best ways to manage pain.”
Not only are conventional treatments ineffective, but the whole premise of conventional medicine is erroneous. Did you notice that the final words of this quote talk about managing pain? At LifeWorks Wellness Center in Clearwater, FL our goal is not to manage chronic pain, but rather to identify the root causes and eliminate the pain all together. We use a comprehensive approach to diagnosis and treatment that examines every possible cause of chronic pain and treats it effectively, giving people their lives back.
Treatment options for chronic pain vary based on what your specific issues are. Here are some of the treatment options we use at LifeWorks to help you regain your health:
- Pulsed Magnetic Field Therapy
- Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy (PEMF)
- Ozone Therapy
- Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Therapy (UVBI)
- Viral Elimination
- Nutritional Supplementation
- Natural Pain Relievers
Patient Testimonials
Nothing says it better than our wonderful patients who are willing to share their stories about their treatment and recovery from Chronic Pain.
28
Jan
No More Belly Pain!*
What a momentous feeling to enjoy my last treatment at LifeWorks and BE CURED 100%! I had tried everything before coming here. I was bedridden in pain and miserable with a va...
08
Apr
“You Gave My Life Back to Me…”*
It took 4 years to find a competent Doctor! Everything started slowly.
My joints hurt, tingling in my hands and feet, and all my muscles hurt and extreme back pain. Every ste...
14
Jun
Video: Kelley’s Testimonial*
LifeWorks Wellness Center's patient, Kelley, talks about how she lived with chronic pain for years until she was correctly diagnosed with Lyme Disease.
12
Jan
Cassie’s Lyme Disease Treatment Success*
I came to Dr. Minkoff after being sick for over 15 years and diagnosed as depressed, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. I had only learned about Lyme in the past year, but coul...
18
May
LG’s Prolozone Success Story*
My knee had been hurting and swelling with any activity. If I took the dogs on a 20-minute walk, I was in pain for the rest of the night. An Orthopedic surgeon told me to sche...
25
Apr
Successfully Treating & Healing Chronic Health Conditions*
When I first arrived at LifeWorks about a year ago, I was actually in denial regarding my chronic health problems which began over 27 years ago. I was exhausted most of the ti...
05
Aug
Fibromyalgia Success*
When I came to LifeWorks for the first time in Nov, 2014, I was miserable. I had Fibromyalgia which caused me to have a lot of pain all over my body and I could not be as acti...
09
Oct
Prolozone Success Story*
“I have suffered from acute back pain on and off for 25 years and recently it really flared up to the point where I could not walk without a cane. Bending and moving were excr...
09
Oct
Leaky Gut Syndrome*
My grandson, Jackson Thomas was born just before Thanksgiving in 2002 in Portland, Oregon . He was a healthy 8 1/2 lbs and of course, totally adorable. He was breastfed and sl...
Get Help with Chronic Pain
We don’t try to suppress your body’s symptoms and pain because this is the body’s way of alerting that something is wrong.
We locate the true underlying source of chronic pain and treat that.
If you are having problems with chronic pain, please contact us at our Clearwater clinic at (727) 466-6789 or submit an online inquiry form.