Pain physiotherapy
The main focus of pain physiotherapy is the exact description of your pain, the associated limitations in your day-to-day life, and a physical examination. This information helps us to work with you to formulate therapy goals. A key objective of pain management is to achieve better quality of life despite chronic pain. This means that you can, for example, aim to increase your physical performance irrespective of how long you have had your symptoms for. Methods used frequently to reach these goals are progressively increasing loads and patient education. In pain physiotherapy we have various treatment options available.
Our treatments
One-on-one therapy
In one-on-one physiotherapy, therapists have the option of dealing with your symptoms and limitations in individual sessions and of treating them accordingly.
MTT – Medical training therapy
Medical training therapy is a three-month independent training course in our weights room with physiotherapy support. By teaching you simple movement sequences, medical training therapy helps you to have positive experiences of movement and enables you to become more active in your day-to-day life. Our therapists will work together with you to compile an individual training programme tailored to your physical preconditions and requirements, which is continuously adapted.
Hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy is particularly good as a gentle introduction to movement therapy. The buoyancy of the water allows participants to move gently. During the course of treatment, hydrotherapy can be progressively expanded to include endurance training, for example by means of aqua jogging.
Graded exposure
Graded exposure is training for movements related to day-to-day life. Patients who undergo this treatment are given detailed information about their physical load-bearing capacity. Participants are supported by a physiotherapist and a psychologist in the practical implementation of the treatment. Using specific exercises, they are gradually exposed to activities they have previously avoided, which teaches them to overcome their movement-related fears and helps them to build trust in their body.
Virtual walking
This form of therapy is aimed at people with a spinal cord injury with neural pain. Treatment is based on mirror therapy for phantom pain. People with a spinal cord injury see themselves walking on a screen in a mirror perspective. The aim is to positively impact disturbed body image and the associated neural pain.
Our specialists
At the Centre for Pain Medicine, you’re always in good hands. We are an experienced team of specialised pain physiotherapists. After a thorough initial diagnosis, we guide you on your path to a better way of life. If you have travelled a long distance to reach our centre, then after the initial diagnosis we will provide recommendations for therapists who practise near your place of residence.
