Return to a normal daily life
Our Multi-Disciplinary approach creates a personalized program designed to address the cause, not just the symptoms, of each unique pain condition. The program is designed for clients suffering from pain who wish to return to normal daily life, including recreational and work activities.
The goals of a treatment program are to:
Pain education provides strategies to help you cope with pain during your recovery. Pain is common when starting a new recovery program and is not a sign of ongoing injury. Understanding the nature of pain and why pain is present is used to guide you in the exercise program to make progressive gains and minimize setbacks that can delay recovery.
Core stability is an important starting point for most exercise programs. Strengthening core abdominal muscles and deep back muscles correctly will help protect the body and improve posture both during exercise and normal daily activities.
Stretching muscles helps prevent tightness that can occur as the body reacts to new activities. A stretching program can help restore your body’s pre-injury range of movements to improve pain and flexibility. Restoring range of movement can also help prevent re-injury.
Specific injury rehabilitation is a progressive strengthening program to retrain muscles that become weak because of pain and inactivity following an injury. You will learn proper techniques for exercise, ergonomics for work or play and a realistic progression of activity to restore normal function.
BOTOX is a brand name of purified Botulinum toxin - meaning there is no botulism risk to these injections when used properly. Many people are unaware that Botulinum toxin injections are used not only to reduce fine lines and wrinkles, but also for chronic pain control, including back and nerve pain. Pain management and other alternative uses for Botulinum toxin therapy have shown how versatile and effective this treatment is. Physicians utilizing Botulinum Toxin treatment for chronic pain control (including back and nerve pain) are able to help clients live healthier, more comfortable lives. Using CT scans or MRI scans to find exactly where the pain is originating from, physicians can utilize pain management techniques that specifically target those muscle or muscle groups. After the source of the pain has been located, Botulinum Toxin therapy is administered to treat the chronic pain, controlling it by relaxing the offending muscle or muscle groups.
Consultations with our clients are imperative at the Welcome Back Upright MRI, Pain Management and Regenerative Medicine Clinic Centre. Through consultation and taking the time to listen to our clients, we can start to understand their specific issues with pain and bring this information to a team of healthcare professionals to develop a personalized plan to manage and alleviate pain. We know that every client’s needs and experiences with pain are different which is why we work as a team to develop a treatment program based on your individual assessment. Through ongoing management and working with you, we modify programs as results are experienced. We can help ease your pain with the goal of getting you on the road to pain free living. We never stop looking out for our clients and educate them on opportunities for continued advancement, group sessions and self-care.
The initial intake consultation is complimentary and can be arranged by contacting our Program Coordinator, or by calling 250.828.6740 (local) or 1.866.759.2674 (toll free in North America).
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A dermatology consult is a 60-minute consult/assessment with Dr. Chris Sladden, MBBch, FRCPC (Certified Dermatologist). This consultation also includes precision imaging with a high resolution dermoscopy camera to allow for careful assessment of suspicious lesions. (Mole Mapping)
Discography is a medical procedure that involves injecting a dye into the jellylike center of a spinal disc to help diagnose back problems. During discography, a doctor looks at the amount of pressure needed to inject the dye into the disc, whether it causes pain that is the same as your regular pain, how much dye is used, and how the dye appears on X-ray after it is inside the disc.
Epidural steroid injection (ESI) is a technique for relieving pain from spinal stenosis and spinal disc herniation. Using a needle, corticosteroids and a local anesthetic are injected into the epidural space around the spinal cord and spinal nerves.
Facet joints are small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion. The facet joints can become painful due to arthritis of the spine, a back injury, or mechanical stress to the back. A cervical, thoracic or lumbar facet joint injection involves injecting a small amount of local anesthetic (numbing agent) and/or steroid medication, which can anesthetize the facet joints and block the pain. The pain relief from a facet joint injection is intended to help a client better tolerate a physical therapy routine to rehabilitate his or her injury or back condition. Facet joint injections usually have two goals: to help diagnose the cause and location of pain and also to provide pain relief Diagnostic goals: By placing numbing medicine into the facet joint, the amount of immediate pain relief experienced by the client will help determine if the facet joint is a source of pain. If complete pain relief is achieved while the facet joint is numb, it means that joint is likely a source of pain. Pain relief goals: Along with the numbing medication, a facet joint injection also includes injecting time-release steroid (cortisone) into the facet joint to reduce inflammation, which can sometimes provide longer-term pain relief.
Laser therapy is a drug-free, non-invasive modality used to treat pain and inflammation associated with both acute and chronic conditions including acute and sport injuries, tendonitis, back pain, muscle sprains, arthritis and bursitis, and ligament strains. Through the use of light energy, both the cellular activity and microcirculation of damaged cells are increased, permanently promoting and enhancing tissue healing.
Massage therapy is an effective evidence based non-surgical, drug-free modality for body health, function and well-being. At Welcome Back Upright MRI, Pain Management and Regenerative Medicine Clinic, our massage therapist has extensive education and is a certified practitioner of Myofascial Release (MFR), Fascial Fitness and Fascial Taping. These techniques are incorporated into treatments that also include Muscle Energy Techniques (MET); joint mobilizations; End Range Loading (nerve traction); Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) and individual therapeutic or rehabilitative exercises.
Nerve Blocks: often a group of nerves can cause pain to a specific body area and can be blocked through the injection of medication. The injection of this nerve-numbing substance is called a nerve block.
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is a concentrate of platelet-rich plasma protein derived from whole blood, centrifuged to removed red blood cells. It has a greater concentration of growth factors than whole blood, and has been used to encourage a brisk healing response across several specialties. PRP has been investigated and used as a clinical tool for several types of medical treatments, including chronic tendinitis, osteoarthritis, for bone repair and regeneration. As a concentrated source of blood plasma and autologous conditioned plasma, PRP contains several different growth factors and other cytokines that can stimulate healing of soft tissue and joints. Main indication in sports medicine and orthopedics are acute muscle strains, tendinopathy and muscle-fascial injuries and osteoarthritis. The concept of the PRP injection is to stimulate the body to potentiate a healing response. PRP has been shown to recruit reparative cells. PRP is injected in an inactivated form and once injected into the body it is activated by collagen within connective tissue. The PRP then releases its growth factors and cytokines. These in turn stimulate local stem cells. The PRP also inhibits excess inflammation which causes scar tissue. The end result is healing of tissue to it’s as normal as possible physiologic state. PRP can be used both in acute and chronic conditions. In the acute phase it can get an athlete back on to the playing field faster with better and quicker healing of tissues. In chronic conditions it is used to jump start the body to heal tissue that the body has failed to heal and the healing response has stalled. PRP is can be utilized on any muscle or tendon but the following are the most common parts injected. Shoulder-rotator cuff Elbow-Lateral or Medial Epicondylitis-Tennis or golfers elbow Groin-Gluteal muscles-adductor tendon Knee-Patellar Tendon-Jumpers knee Achilles Tendon-Tears-Chronic Inflammation.
This procedure selectively destroys problematic nerve routes in the spinal cord and other joints, most often to relieve pain. Rhizotomies are generally indicated for conditions that cause deterioration of the facet joints. Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis are the two primary culprits in the destruction of the joint capsule, but they are not the only reason.
The purpose of a sacroiliac joint injection is two-fold: to diagnose the source of a client's pain, and to provide therapeutic pain relief. At times, these are separated and a client will undergo a purely diagnostic or therapeutic injection, although often the two are combined into one injection.