Health & Wellness

We believe in taking a holistic approach to your osteoarthritis symptoms through medical support and hands on implementation of healthier habits to increase your activity, manage your pain, and improve the health of your knees and joints.

What Does it Mean to Treat Osteoarthritis Pain with a Holistic Approach?

Treating pain holistically simply means placing an emphasis on living a healthy lifestyle and promoting wellness throughout the entire body and mind. Therefore, a holistic pain patient is someone who is concerned with treating their whole body, rather than just the part that hurts. More traditional pain treatment tends to focus on treating the pain itself; addressing the symptoms but inevitably ignoring the actual cause.

For instance, someone with chronic knee pain might be advised that they need a total knee replacement surgery. The surgery would treat the symptoms, hopefully effectively, but would do little more. Many patients would endure an extremely painful rehabilitation process and eventually find themselves in the same position, due to the wear and tear that the artificial joint will experience

For some patients, however, there are alternative treatment methods such as lifestyle modifications, physical therapy, medication, acupuncture, steroid or hyaluronic acid injections (viscosupplementation), prolotherapy (which involves injecting fluid to strengthen connective tissue), and arthroscopic surgery that can help manage knee problems by that addressing the damaged cartilage. These are the types of procedures that are commonly recommended and should be considered before resorting to a painful knee replacement surgery.

Ask yourself: Have I tried everything? Is my knee pain holding me back from doing the things I enjoy? If you find the answer is yes, it might be time for you to start looking at the cause, which in turn, will allow you to manage and ideally eliminate the symptoms that you are fighting on a daily basis. Call us today to find out how you can take the first steps to determine what type of treatment is right for you.