Assessment & the concerns we explore.
A detailed history, physical examination, and orthopedic assessment help guide the next steps. Imaging may be considered where appropriate. We look at your symptoms, movement, previous care, and recovery goals together.
A painful area may involve several structures, including joints, tendons, muscles, fascia, and nerves. The assessment considers how these interact and how pain changes your movement and daily activities.
Imaging is considered when it can help answer a clinical question. Where a joint injection is appropriate, ultrasound guidance is used to help visualize the target and guide needle placement.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT).
I draw on PRT principles throughout my pain treatments. I also offer PRT as a standalone treatment for chronic neuroplastic pain when assessment supports this approach.
Understanding neuroplastic pain
Pain is real. For some people, an overprotective nervous system continues producing pain even when ongoing tissue damage does not adequately explain it. Physical and neuroplastic contributors can coexist, so assessment comes first.
PRT works with how the brain interprets body sensations, aiming to reduce learned threat responses and the cycle of pain, fear, and avoidance.
Clinical research supports PRT for selected people with primary chronic back pain. Results vary, and those findings do not establish that every pain condition is neuroplastic or will respond to PRT.
PRT patient information ↗ · Randomized clinical trial · JAMA Psychiatry ↗
Treatments & tools available.
The plan may combine pain education, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, hands-on care, needling, or injection approaches. Your diagnosis, goals, previous treatment, and stage of recovery guide which options we discuss.
Each approach has a different purpose. We discuss the evidence for your condition, likely benefits, risks, alternatives, and recovery expectations before deciding together. An injection is considered when it has a role in your overall plan.
myoActivation: assessment, treatment & reassessment.
myoActivation is a structured approach to myofascial pain involving muscles, fascia, and relevant scars. It combines a detailed history, movement assessment, and targeted needling.
Your assessment may explore previous injuries, operations, repetitive strain, and scars, alongside your current symptoms and limitations.
- Assess. Review movement, range of motion, and tender areas.
- Treat. Use small hypodermic needles at selected muscle, fascia, or scar sites.
- Reassess. Review changes in movement and symptoms to guide care.
Before and after treatment
Wear comfortable clothing that allows access to the areas being assessed. We discuss consent, individual risks, activity modification, and aftercare before treatment. Temporary soreness, bruising, or fatigue can occur. Response varies; follow-up considers both symptoms and function.
Preparation, aftercare & patient FAQs · Anatomic Medicine Foundation ↗
Progress that matters in daily life.
Your goals may be returning to exercise, working more comfortably, or moving with less hesitation. Follow-up gives us time to review your response and adjust care alongside rehabilitation and your other treating professionals.
Before a procedure, we discuss preparation, potential side effects, expected recovery, and what follow-up will involve. Response varies; we track changes in pain and function and revisit the plan rather than promise a particular result.
Discuss pain managementExplore the clinic program.
Learn more about the available approaches at Healthcode Regenerative ↗.