Physiotherapy works : Chronic pain Chronic pain can impact significantly upon physical, emotional and social wellbeing. Physiotherapy utilising a broad scope of practice can safely and cost-effectively support and guide people with long term pain towards the best possible quality of life. What is chronic pain? Chronic, persistent or long-term pain is pain continuing beyond 3 months. Affecting adults and children, it may arise from tissue damage or inflammation or have no identified cause. It can affect a specific body area (e.g. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, low back pain (LBP), pelvic pain) or be widespread (e.g. fibromyalgia). Chronic pain is a complex condition with physical, social and psychological components, which can lead to disability, loss of independence and poor quality of life (QoL). Cost of chronic pain * Pain is the second most common reason for claiming incapacity benefit, costing £3.8 billion annually * £584 million a year is spent on prescriptions for pain * Annual healthcare costs for patients with chronic LBP are double those of matched controls (£1, 074 vs. £516). Significant impact * Chronic back pain affects 30 lakh adults per year in India * 7.8 crore people in India live with chronic pain * Chronic pain accounts for 46 lakh General Practitioner appointments per year. 25% of people with chronic pain lose their jobs Physiotherapy supports and enables people with chronic pain to remain in or return to work. Increasing need of physiotherapists and their skills are actually important to treat chronic pains as such via their modalities and pain management techniques. Most importantly, today maximum Physiotherapists throughout the country are dealing with Spine and Joint pains, Slip disc, disc bulge, herniated disc, back pain, low back pain, lower back pain, neck pain, tingling, numbness, nerve pain, cervical radiculopathy, lumbar radiculopathy, nerve root impingement, cervical nerve root impingement, lumbar nerve root impingement, cervical pain, cervical spondylitis, lumbar spondylitis, cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis, lumbar spondylolysthesis, grade one spondylolysthesis, knee pain, acl tear, pcl tear, mcl tear, lcl tear, acl sprain, pcl sprain, lcl sprain, mcl sprain, ligament tear, ligament sprain, medial meniscus tear, medial meniscus sprain, lateral meniscus tear, arthritis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory joint disease, ankylosing arthritis, sports injury, ankle sprain, bursitis, retrocalcaneal bursitis, plantar fascitis, calf sprain, cramps, muscle weakness, calcaneal spur, knee buckling, knee give away, knee lurching, knee lurch, paralysis, stroke, brain stroke, hemiplegia, spinal canal stenosis, paraplegia, quadriplegia, lumbo sacral sprain, lumbar sprain, spinal cord injury, disc herniation, facial palsy, bell’s palsy, sciatica, sciatic pain, sciatic nerve impingement, bulge, PIVD, lumbar PIVDs and many more. Best Physiotherapy Clinic of Udaipur Best Pain Clinic of Udaipur