Acute pain can be expected as part of the recovery from surgery. You’ve experienced an injury, and now you are bruised and tender, but day by day, the symptoms are improving. Chronic pain speaks to the debilitating pain that impacts not only your day-to-day life, but also your mental health. The neck pain, the back pain, the achy knees, or the catchy hip. You’ve described your symptoms so numerous that you feel like you speak them in your sleep. Symptoms like tingling, numbness, or burning areas, radiating or burning pain, moving too fast might take your breath away for a moment, or you simply limit your movement for fear of repeated exploding waves of pain.
There is no one-size-fits-all to describe or handle pain. And, as humans, we are innately intricate and unique. We’ve had patients with conditions that impact their entire spine or just parts of it, like the cervical, thoracic, or lumbar areas. The shoulders, knees, and hips are major joints that can have a variety of impacts on them, causing or creating pain. The sacroiliac joints support the weight of the upper body when a person is standing. These joints link the pelvis and lower spine and are made up of the bony structure above the tailbone, known as the sacrum, and the top part of the pelvis, known as the ilium. All of these locations and joints in the body have residual impacts on many other parts of the body, and pain can totally take over.
