Best Pain Control Clinic Long Beach Near Me

4worldlovers: Unrelieved pain can interfere with nearly every aspect of your life. It often means you cannot enjoy a normal, active lifestyle. It also means you are not alone. More than 25 million Americans live with pain. In fact, pain is the most frequent cause of physical disability.

4worldlovers: Pain is very real and can be complex. Chronic/Persistent pain has been misunderstood and mistreated for a very long time, with a focus purely on single body regions, excessive medical imaging and testing, and an overuse of medications, injections, surgery, and passive therapies as a primary form of treatment. This has resulted in many people not getting the care they need, feeling lost, abandoned and their suffering not believed. At Roots, we start with the affirming statement of “All pain is real”, and understand that everyone experiences pain in different ways depending on their beliefs about pain. These beliefs are shaped by a multitude of factors, from cultural norms to past treatment to family or work-related stress. Whatever your beliefs or pain experience are, Chronic or Persistent Pain can interfere with your daily life and can keep you from doing things you want and need to do. If your pain has led to dependence on prescription pills, alcohol or other drugs, or is taking a toll on your self-esteem or making you feel angry, depressed, anxious or frustrated, this is a good indicator to seek help. Additionally, we offer a free assessment test that one can take.

Chronic pain is pain that carries on for an extended period of time despite medication or treatment. For many people, chronic pain starts after an injury, operation or because of a health condition. But sometimes, pain can also begin without any obvious cause and can come on for those without any history of an injury or operation. Here’s a list of common chronic pains:

Pelvic Pain Conditions (Chronic Prostatitis/Pelvic Pain Syndrome, Pudendal neuralgia, Vaginismus, Vestibulodynia, Vulvodynia, Chronic Postpartum Pain, Chronic Pelvic Pain Post-Gender Affirmation Surgery)

Other body regions or the entire body becoming painful as well

Increased sensitivity to touch. For example, forms of touch, such as a light brush to the skin are uncomfortable or painful

Increased sensitivity to temperature. For example, cold temperatures aggravate your pain

Increased sensitivity to movement. It takes minimal movement to aggravate your pain severely.

Experiencing consistently moderate to high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression related to the pain

Certain environments trigger a flare up in pain. For example, increased pain when sitting in a car, after a car accident.

Q: What is the difference between acute pain and chronic pain?

A: Acute pain can be mild and last a short period of time, or be severe and last for weeks or months, but is followed by healing. Chronic pain is pain that is ongoing and lasts longer than a few months.

A: Pain is the brain's interpretation of information from an alarm system formed by the brain and the nerves inside the spine that make up the central nervous system. One can usually expect pain to settle down with time, but sometimes the brain continues sending out pain signals that are hard to stop. Some of these signals may come for no obvious reason, but it doesn't make pain any less real.

4worldlovers: Pain Management Associates provides a wide range of services to offer each patient all the choices and the care they may need. We work with a fine group of physicians and facilities; therefore, we provide the area’s most comprehensive musculoskeletal care.