Recovery & Pain Relief

Pain management through physical therapy offers something that medication and passive treatments cannot — it addresses the source of your pain, not just the symptom. While medication can mask pain temporarily, physical therapy identifies why you hurt and treats the underlying mechanical, muscular, and neurological factors driving your symptoms.

At The Back Clinic, pain relief is integrated into every aspect of treatment. Your therapist uses a combination of hands-on manual therapy, targeted exercise, pain science education, and adjunctive modalities to reduce your pain while building your body’s capacity to function without it.

• Manual therapy — Hands-on joint and soft tissue techniques that produce immediate pain reduction through neurological and biomechanical mechanisms
• Pain neuroscience education — Helping you understand how pain works and why understanding your pain reduces its impact
• Graded exposure and progressive loading — Gradually reintroducing movements and activities that have become painful, building tolerance systematically
• Dry needling — Targeting trigger points that contribute to local and referred pain patterns
• Therapeutic modalities — Heat, ice, electrical stimulation, and ultrasound when appropriate as adjuncts to active treatment
• Self-management strategies — Techniques you can use at home to manage flare-ups independently

Chronic pain often creates a vicious cycle: pain leads to avoidance, avoidance leads to weakness and stiffness, and weakness and stiffness create more pain. Physical therapy breaks this cycle by carefully reintroducing movement in a supported, graduated way.

Our approach is grounded in modern pain science. We help you understand that hurt does not always equal harm, that movement is medicine, and that your body is more resilient than chronic pain makes it feel. Combined with hands-on treatment and progressive exercise, this approach produces lasting results for even long-standing pain conditions.