Pain Away Blog
In our industry, dealing with pain is serious business. No one is free from it, but there are certain steps that can be taken to prevent, mitigate, and manage it. In the Pain Away Clinic Blog, you’ll get a peek into the latest events that we’ve attended/sponsored, keep up to date with our latest deals, and our staff also regularly write detailed articles and posts to give you the latest tips and advice for keeping pain away.
Cervicogenic Headaches: All You Need to Know
Cervicogenic headache is a chronic headache that develops from the neck (atlanto-occipital and upper cervical joints) and feels the pain on the head and face one or more than one area. This type of headache is a secondary headache, which is often misdiagnosed due to...
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Symptoms, Causes and Treatments
Carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by compression of the median nerve. Normally, median nerve passes through the wrist's carpal tunnel. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a nerve entrapment neuropathy. The median nerve supplies the muscles in front of the forearm and feeling of...
Knee Pain – What are the main causes?
When you step up-down stairs, everybody thinks that only knee joints move. In fact, not only the knee joint but also the other joints. The picture showing joints move when step up stairs , the pelvic bone a little bit tilt during hip joint and knee joint bend up...
How to do exercises for – Hunchbacked, Head forward, Rounded shoulder?
A lot of people may have problems with the posture such as hunchback (kyphosis), neck extended forward (head forward, or rounded shoulders - often this is the cause of back pain, shoulder pain, or neck pain). Today Pain Away’s Therapists, we practice the exercises to...
Why posture’s so important
Bad posture is a common problem for many people, as we live in a world full of activities leading to poor posture. Postural dysfunction (poor posture) is when our spine is situated in unnatural positions for extended periods of time, occurring as a result of one’s...
Scapular (Shoulder Blade) Disorders
The scapular, or shoulder blade, is a large triangular-shaped bone that lies in the upper back. The bone is surrounded and supported by a complex system of muscles that work together to help you move your arm. If an injury or condition causes these muscles to become...
Preventing and Treating Sport Injuries
Exercising is fun and healthy, but there is a risk at injury if we do not prepare our bodies and muscles before engaging in exercise. Most people who exercise get to experience a sports injury sooner or later. A sports injury is often annoying, as it is uncomfortable...
5 Physical Therapy Benefits for Your Health
If you haven’t visited a physiotherapist before, we’re sure you have a lot of questions. There are many reasons why going to the hospital might seem like an obvious choice, but it might not always be the right one. Here are 5 physical therapy benefits you might not...
Benefits of Physical Therapy for the Elderly
Aging may be scary due to diseases which can easily affect one’s health; combat the effects of aging through a health care procedure that is safe, medicine-free and uses natural methods. Physical therapy is becoming a well known alternative to help with the aging...
Physical Therapy for Whiplash in Bangkok
Have you ever heard or experienced whiplash before? When getting into an automobile accident, experiencing an injury can go from as small as a sprained knee to some fractured bones. Whiplash, however, can be quite a common occurrence. Whiplash occurs when a sudden...
Shockwave Therapy: All You Need to Know
What is Shockwave Therapy? Shockwave therapy is a new treatment method that we have available at our clinic. It is a non-invasive, non-electrical treatment that uses high energy soundwave pulses applied with a hand-held probe directly onto a painful muscle or injury...
Plantar Fasciitis – All You Need to Know
Plantar fasciitis commonly causes stabbing pain that usually occurs with your first steps in the morning. As you get up and move, the pain normally decreases, but it might return after long periods of standing or when you stand up after sitting. What Is Plantar...
Treating Insomnia – Sleep Easy with Physical Therapy
It's already 3 in the morning and you have to be up by 6 am to get ready for work. You're trying everything you can to finally doze off, but no matter what you do - twisting and turning, changing your air-con temperature, and even the thousands of sheep you've counted...
Deep Tissue Massage in Bangkok – Everything You Need to Know
Are you suffering from deep, chronic back pain that a traditional massage can't seem to help with? Perhaps you've even tried various stretching exercises you saw online or visiting a chiropractor. Your condition improves for a few hours or days, but the pain keeps on...
Sports Massage Therapy in Bangkok – Everything You Need to Know
Everyone knows that gut-wrenching feeling. You're running your fifth lap around Benjakiti Park, or you're rushing to get ahead of the striker who's come a little too close to your goal, or perhaps you're just spending a warm summer afternoon playing 18 holes. Whaaaam!...
Physiotherapist and Chiropractor – What’s the Difference?
Most of the time Chiropractor is more concern on correcting the alignment of the spine neuromusculoskeletal system but our clinic focus on both the spine and muscle because from our perspective the muscle is also important aspect for body alignment and balance that if...
Acupuncture for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
The carpal tunnel is too small and/or inflammation occurs in the tendons that run through it, the median nerve becomes compressed, causing symptoms such as pain, numbness, and tingling in the wrist, hand, and fingers. Anatomy The carpal tunnel is a narrow...
Acupuncture for Fibromyalgia
What is Fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia is a long-term (chronic) condition that can cause widespread pain and tenderness over much of the body. According to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), around 5 million adults aged 18...
Headache and Migraine Treatment with Physical Therapy
If you find that you often have a squeezing painful tension in your head or a migraine, you’re not alone. Nine out of ten people suffer from headaches. While most headaches are an occasional occurrence that a simple paracetamol tablet can fix, for some it may present...
Back Pain: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
Back pain can affect people of all ages, and it's one of the most common reasons have to take a day off and miss work. It's so common that 9 out of 10 patients that we treat at Pain Away Clinic have symptoms related to it. In fact, according to an alarming study by...
Lower Back Pain: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment
Not being able to sit straight on a chair or in a car for a long time, pain while walking or other daily activities, getting out of bed painfully, and not daring to load the back are just a few examples of common problems our patients' experience while suffering from...