It’s common for any new approach to access healthcare to be met with apprehension, be it diagnosis, getting a prescription, or doing a follow-up. The same is true when we are asked to access Physical Therapy virtually. Though many of us have adopted this medium of coping with chronic pain, some of us are still ambiguous about its reliability and efficacy over the conventional method. What’s holding us back from adopting it? Virtual Physical therapy usually entails an intensive exercise program that includes at-home exercise sessions that can extend up to weeks. One has to maintain se ..read more

One of the major drawbacks of the current pandemic is people not able to meet with their physiotherapists in person to seek help in their chronic pain management from the comfort of their home. As a result, Physical therapy through Telehealth has become crucial during this current pandemic, What is Telehealth? Telehealth is defined as the delivery and facilitation of healthcare which includes medical care, patient education, health information services, exercises, and self-care via online applications that can be used on computers and smartphones. Physiotherapy via Telehealth During this ..read more

Editor’s note: Phyzio presents the first part one of the two-part series of commentaries and blogs on the topic of establishing the regular exercise habit for pain relief and it’s a recent advancement in the field of telehealth. Those days are long gone when your therapists would tell you to take it easy and keep your body relaxed in bed. You may be advised to rest for a bit, perhaps for a week or so, but you also need to be strongly encouraged to get moving again. Because it is often tough for people with chronic pain to remain as active as possible. Exercise and general physic ..read more

The first deepest human fear is unknown suffering, or being in ongoing pain without understanding why. Most of you who are suffering from chronic pain always find it difficult to get to the root cause of your pain and that’s when you start doubting if it’s due to the excess weight of your body. The extra weight not only adds to your obesity blues but also puts more weight on your bones and joints resulting in chronic pain. Weight gain: Triggers inflammation and chronic pain! When you don’t maintain a regular and healthy diet, you invite fat cells to accumulate that increases inflammation ..read more

Whenever this comes up, you will witness all sorts of opinions from different kinds of people around you. It has always been widely spoken that Pain Specialists are not regarded as regular doctors and should not be allowed to put that prefix to their name. But we are here to dismiss that pity thought from each one of your minds. People are so oblivious of the work and role played by these pain specialists, that they do not even think what they are rooting for and most people outside of the medical field understandably don’t know the difference. Pain is actually a wide spectrum of disorder ..read more

What is being served on your plate or what you intake as a part of your daily consumption affects a lot when you are suffering from chronic pain. As surprising it may sound, the answer to any kind of pain your body goes through can be found in your kitchen, rather than the pharmacy stores. It is well known that chronic pain is tied to inflammation, and foods can either raise or lower the levels of inflammation in our body. Eating fewer pro-inflammatory foods and consuming more anti-inflammatory foods can be part of an overall strategy for your pain. It’s not just about what you’re av ..read more

Even though the majority of us enjoy inhabiting sedentary lives, the human body was not designed to support this type of lifestyle. The phrase “use it or lose it” can apply to many things, including your body. The human body was designed for physical activity. However, due to modern technology and convenience, it’s easy to fall into a pattern of moving as little as possible. When you don’t use your body, you may experience something called “disuse syndrome.” This condition describes the effects on the body and mind when a person is sedentary. Not using our bodies can lead t ..read more

You all must have heard, “Age is just a number” but you are hardly known to the fact that this age number comes with a lot of baggage when it is about dealing with your body and health issues. Certainly, as this number goes up and you start getting older and older, the odds of getting into some happenings that eventually leaves you with a lot of pain for the life ahead escalates as well. You start to develop a complex, unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, which has pain as a symptom, and if it gets carried on for a longer period of time, then it brings you under the roof of chroni ..read more

You do what you think and you think what you feel about. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a therapy that is often used to help people think in a healthy way and plays a vital role in refining your behaviours. It focuses on cognitive issues like your thoughts and then takes on your behavioral aspects, that is your actions towards those thoughts. A happy mind is a healthy one; when your entire body is hurting and the pain feels unbearable then the last thing you want is it to revolve around your head all the time. CBT: An alternate strategy to manage your pain Since dealing with s ..read more

Every strong community that ever existed, started with sharing. We share experiences, we share wisdom, we share what moves us until the thing we share is the community itself. Every community is built on sharing and caring. Some things are so deep, so personal, it creates a powerful connection but so instinctive, so human, all billions of us have it in us. The act of sharing and caring gives the community meaning, every class top, every personal expression, every bit of inspiration. The trajectory of the community around chronic pain A platform that brings together everyone around and makes su ..read more