Pain After Exercise: Is It Serious?
With the new year right around the corner, many of us are setting our goals and resolutions for the fresh start to come. These resolutions often include new exercise plans and fitness goals. While exercise is an incredibly important component to a healthy lifestyle, what happens if you’re experiencing pain during or after exercise? Below we walk through how to tell if your pain after movement is a problem or not. Pain v. Soreness: What’s the Difference and Is it from Exercise? While exercise has a number of...
What to Look For in a Pain Management Plan
Chronic pain can be a large and uncomfortable barrier to living a happy, enjoyable life, but with effective pain management, it can be mitigated. When you can no longer get up and move, engage with the world, and enjoy yourself while doing it because pain has become too big of a barrier, it’s time to seek help from medical professionals. When it comes to your pain management plan and care team, there are a few things you should look for to ensure they’re helping you on your path to your best, most healthy, most...
Say Goodbye to Chronic Back Pain: 6 Must-Try Prevention Tips
Acute back pain is extremely common, though not that many people seek medical help to address it. The term acute back pain refers to a short-term occurrence, lasting from six to twelve weeks, that cannot be attributed to a specific cause. The most typical causes of acute back pain are spinal fractures, muscle or ligament strain, arthritis, and herniated disc(s). However, without determining the underlying causes of your acute back pain, it is easy for this short-term problem to become a chronic condition. We...
Effective Pain Relief: 4 Essential Exercises to Try
At Minivasive Pain and Orthopedics, our goal is to help you reduce or eliminate your pain so you can get back to the joys of life. Fortunately, there are exercises you can do at home, or with the help of your physical therapist, that can work to reduce your pain and give you the freedom to do what you love. These exercises include: Lying March – Hip Pain If you struggle with lower back or arthritic pain, your physical therapist will likely recommend the lying march. This exercise helps to strengthen your...