Personalized Sarasota Medical Pain Relief & Management Services

Innovative Treatments for Acute & Chronic Pains

Platinum Healthcare offers non-invasive, effective techniques for alleviating chronic pain. Our goal is to ensure each patient receives the best in physical medicine, in order to regain healthy, active lifestyles.

Our specialists are skilled in assessing and diagnosing the source of injury and pain, and creating treatment plans specific to each patient’s needs. We offer on-site diagnostic testing and rehabilitation therapy to make certain your receive whole-body care.

What is Pain Management?

Any kind of pain causes discomfort, limits function and impacts your day-to-day life. Pain management effectively helps patients control the pain from various health conditions. Pain management involves various techniques to deal with pain. Pain management means treating all kinds of pain including spinal, musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain.

What Are the Simple Pain Management Tips for Neck & Back Pain?

• Don’t panic: If you are suffering from neck and back pain. Talk to your doctor. Get diagnosed to determine the cause and ask for treatment.
• Ice and heat therapy: Ice and heat can relieve pain that arises due to ligament and muscle strain. Ice reduces inflammation and swelling and acts as a local anesthetic so use ice for 48 hours and after that use heat. Heat increases the flow of blood to deep tissue and relaxes muscle spasms.
• Over the counter medications: Over the counter medications such as aspirin, naproxen sodium or ibuprofen can help you control pain. These can effectively diminish pain and reduce inflammation both in the neck and back.
• Massage: Gentle massage is great for pain. Manual massage provides pain relief by stretching tight ligaments and muscles. Massage can provide you immediate pain relief.
• Lifestyle changes: When you have pain, you need to make some alterations in the way you approach routine activities. Maintain the normal curvature of the spine. Good posture can also help you recover fast. Pay attention to your sitting, standing, driving, lifting, walking and sleeping postures.

What Are Pain Management Techniques?

There are so many techniques to help you manage your back and neck pain including acupuncture, meditation, biofeedback, occupational therapies, mind-body techniques, and yoga.

Some of the most common techniques are:

• Physical therapy: Incorporate therapies including posture correction, aquatic therapy, and low impact exercise, traction therapy in order to increase mobility and strengthen muscles.
• Chiropractic care: Chiropractic adjustments correct misalignment and relieve pain.
• Injection Therapy: Tissue and joint injection therapy.