Can you relate to any of the following statements?
- My injuries keep coming back
- I’ve been told ‘nothing can be done’
- My symptoms keep changing and moving around
- Conventional treatment hasn’t helped
- Any improvement is short lived
- I’ve had this problem for years, even decades
- I’ve had scans and tests which all come back as normal
- People think I’m ‘imagining it ’ or ‘exaggerating’
These are comments I hear regularly from new patients with Chronic Pain and Recurrent Injuries. What it tells me is that the underlying cause of your problem has not been addressed, or at least only partially addressed.
I’m not saying it’s always easy to do, some patients are quite complex and it takes time to figure out what’s going on.
At other times, a seemingly complex issue can be resolved quite quickly, and occasionally there’s a very satisfying “eureka” moment when a piece of the jigsaw falls into place. In one way, I could say that “your pain is my puzzle” and it’s my job to try and solve it.