{"id":3506,"date":"2024-02-19T16:16:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truephysio.co.uk\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2024-02-19T16:19:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T16:19:20","slug":"top-5-things-weve-learned-from-helping-over-17000-people-relieve-their-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truephysio.co.uk\/top-5-things-weve-learned-from-helping-over-17000-people-relieve-their-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 things we’ve learned from helping over 17,000 people relieve their pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
After helping more than 17,000 people in our clinics, you can be safe in the knowledge that we will likely have seen your issue before and know how to help. But, we’ve also learned some slightly surprising things over the years and seen some patterns emerge. Patterns that can help people avoid pain, relieve their pain faster, and avoid suffering at the hands of pain quite so much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So we thought we would reveal them here for the first time…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whilst you can’t come to us for every niggle you get, most people leave it much longer than they needed to to come and see us. Generally speaking, if something is painful, and not improving within 10 days (or 2 weeks at most) of the pain starting, it’s unlikely to just disappear by itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We see people who have put up with pain for weeks, months and sometimes even years in clinic. The delay results in two things. One, it takes longer to get rid of the pain with treatment as things have been allowed to get stiffer or weaker, and so there’s a longer journey back to feeling good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Secondly, it means that the patient has put up with pain for longer (sometimes much longer) than they needed to. Even if a pain is just a niggle and doesn’t stop you doing anything, when it’s there for a long time, it wears you down. So often, our patients tell us they wish they’d come sooner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most people don’t actually know what Physio is really. They’ve often been told it might help, or read somewhere it might help with their problem, but most people don’t know what we do, or think we just do massage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The stereotypical view of Physio is that we are Massage Therapists basically. Whilst we do do Massage, and it can work brilliantly, there’s a lot more to our treatment. It all starts with our ability to diagnose a problem. Our detailed assessments allow us to find the root cause of the issue, rather than just one of the symptoms, which tight muscles often is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We also have lots of options when it comes to treatment. We can mobilise joints, we can manipulate joints, we can work on improving the mobility of nerves. We can help people get stronger, fitter and more resilient to what they have to do in their normal day. We can help people with training plans for their specific sport, and we can devise a full plan for helping someone relieve their pain and keep it away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We do also do massage. It does help, but there’s a lot more to Physio than most people realise. That means it can help with more problems than most people think, and can help you learn how to stay pain-free in the long run, rather than offering a quick fix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most common problem we see in clinic is lower back pain. It’s also often the most miserable…which is why we see it so much. It’s not something people can ignore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n