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The Physiotherapy treatment towards the pain management

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Pain Management by Physiotherapist: Pain is unpleasant sensory and emotional experience with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. Pain is a major symptom in many medical conditions, the pain can significantly interfere with a persons quality of life and general functioning. Pain medicine is a sub-specialty of Rehabilitation Medicine, Neurology, Palliative Medicine and Psychiatry. Scientists have been trying for decades to know the mystery of pain. An important break through came in the mid 1960 when scientists discovered that brain could change or modulate the nervous system in response to pain. What normally occurs is that pain begins when the nociceptors (Pain Carrying Fibers). These are small thin fibers located through out body in peripheral nerve they release a bath of chemicals to carry pain message to brain. The study of pain in recent years attracted the physiotherapy. Pain is a major problem in our country as anywhere else but lack of...