Mind Your Pain
Targeting specifically nociplastic pain, this therapy retrains sensations as non-threatening.
What is Pain Reprocessing Therapy?
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Who is Marlene?
This energy-management strategy has patients taking breaks to make daily living activities more manageable.
What is Activity Pacing?
This temporary pain, known familiarly as DOMS, peaks 24-48 hours after an intense workout and is not a reason to be seen at the pain clinic.
What is Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness?
For poor sleep, pharmacy recommends this gold-standard sleep remedy.
What is CBT-I?
This form of therapy offers a non-judgemental space for patients to verbally process the daily challenges of living with a chronic condition.
What is Supportive Counselling?
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Who is Alanna?
Patients use this supplemental intervention to improve mobility and restore function through tailored movement programs.
What is Physical Therapy?
This phenomenon occurs when a pain signal is felt in a different area than the actual source of the pain.
What is Referred Pain?
For patients experiencing chronic headaches, pharmacy may recommend this to sooth the hypervigilant nervous system.
To address social factors that exacerbate the suffering of patients in pain, this intervention connects patients to community supports, financial benefits, and housing programs.
What is Resource Counselling?
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Who is Ciel?
This intervention manipulates soft tissues to provide temporary relief.
What is Massage Therapy?
Triggered by non-neural tissue damage, this is the most common type of pain experienced with activation of pain receptors.
What is Nociceptive Pain?
For patients with widespread pain, pharmacy directs patients to this option to explore pain relief.
What is The Way Out?
Rather than fighting their discomfort, patients receiving this therapy learn to commit to healthy, valued based actions while not getting stuck in their negative thoughts.
What is Acceptance Commitment Therapy?
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Who is Virginia?
These professionals provide manual adjustments to improve symptoms while focusing on the musculoskeletal system.
What is a Chiropractor?
This type of pain is often described as burning, tingling, or shooting like an electric shock.
What is Neuropathic Pain?
When patients are not finding sufficient relief from their medication, pharmacy often recommends this ongoing supplemental choice.
What is People in Pain Network?
This intervention focuses on addressing the cause of the patient's hypervigilant nervous system which is amplifying their physical pain symptoms.
What is Trauma Therapy?
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Who is Machiko?
This Eastern medicine practice pin-points areas in the body to stimulate the nervous system into releasing natural pain-relievers.
What is Acupuncture?
This term was adopted in the 2010's to describe pain arising from an altered processing of the nervous system without identified tissue or nerve damage.
What is Nociplastic Pain?
Patients reporting unsuccessful med trials will be encouraged to use this by our pharmacist.
What is Power Over Pain Portal?