Acute and Chronic Pain Relief

Helping Manage Acute & Chronic Pain

Everyone has experienced some type of pain, whether it’s from a stomach ache to a stubbed toe. Usually this pain is acute, or temporary, but sometimes this pain can last for weeks, months, or years. The cause, location, and circumstances for this chronic pain contribute to how Achieve Therapy treats the pain and gives you a much better quality of life.

Individually Customized

Pain Management Plans

Those who suffer from either acute pain or severe, chronic pain know that their condition affects more than just the physical aspect of one’s body, but also the functional, emotional, and psychological aspects. This pain may also make even the easiest of tasks incredibly hard to accomplish. Achieve Therapy is here to provide one-on-one relief that will lead to a much better quality of life.

In order to start you on the road to pain relief, Dr. Santoro will perform an assessment of your pain problems. This assessment will help to determine an accurate pain diagnosis and to help create a thoughtful, individualized pain management plan. This plan is tailored to your specific condition.

Acute Pain

Short-Term or Temporary

Acute pain is usually the result of an injury or a specific illness, and typically lasts less than 30 days. This acute pain is our body’s way of telling us that we’re performing a harmful behavior (such as lifting an object incorrectly) and to stop it. Most of the time the acute pain goes away on its own as you let your body heal; but sometimes it doesn’t get better. That’s when a visit to Achieve Therapy is needed to help pin point the cause of the pain.

These are some common causes for acute pain:

Tension-type headache (“stress headache”)
Infection
A sports injury
Herniated discs
Broken bone
Surgery

The Effects of Chronic Pain

Handle Your Long Term Pain

Long term pain, also known as chronic pain, lasts longer than what is the typical time needed to heal. Over time, this enduring pain can become the disease in itself. It can last well after an injury has healed or can flare up with no indication of any kind of illness or injury. The effects from dealing with chronic pain can be detrimental to a person both physically and mentally and can cause disturbances in a person’s sleep, depression, anxiety, changes in appetite, and disability.

Dr. Santoro knows that suffering this long term pain can have serious detrimental effects to both your physical and mental state of mind. He is here to help you diagnose the cause of the pain and to create a plan that will help you manage your chronic pain so you live a happy and fulfilled life.

Some the most common causes of chronic pain are:

Back pain

Osteoarthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis

Fibromyalgia

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Migraine headaches

Cancer

Post-surgical pain syndrome

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

From Our Patients

See what our patients have said about working with Achieve Therapy!

I had a wonderful experience at Achieve Therapy. The one on one time Dr Santoro spends with his patients is exceptional and it really shows in his care. He is professional and very knowledgeable. I highly recommend!

Kait R.

I think the thing that is very impressive about Achieve Therapy and Dr. Santoro, is his attention to his patients. Unlike most other places in the area, Dr. Santoro does not schedule more than one person every 45-60 minutes and he doesn’t double book his patient appointments. I went through Physical Therapy at other bigger places and was always being seen with at least two or three other patients at the same time….but not at Achieve Therapy! Hopefully, I never get hurt again, but if I do, I’m going back to see Dr. Santoro.

Maria R.

I saw Dr. Santoro for lower back pain. I could barely walk when I went to see him and I was in extreme pain. Dr. Santoro was extremely thorough when analyzing the issue, performed manipulations on my back, and even gave me exercises to work on at home so I can avoid this issue in the future. I left feeling great. Not only is Dr. Santoro professional and an expert in his field, he is very personable.

Laura C.

I had no idea Physical Therapists could perform joint manipulations (or adjustments as I knew them before) until I met Dr. Santoro. He is specially trained in advanced manual therapy procedures, and this really shows in his ability to manually fix an issue and then reiterate with corrective exercise. I’m happy to admit I’m never going to need to go back to my chiropractor.

Susan H.

Going to Achieve Therapy and working with Dr. Santoro, you find he is attentive to you while you are doing your exercises to make sure that you are doing them correctly. He is encouraging throughout. He is a professional, knowledgable and a gifted Physical Therapist. I highly recommend this practice to anyone of any age or treatment scenario.

Teresa C.

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