Discover Alternatives to Pain Management with Chapin & Russell Associates
Whether a person suffers from migraines, chronic back pain, fibromyalgia or other chronic pain management conditions like arthritis, effective pain management for chronic pain sufferers involves interventions that address the whole person’s needs. Sometimes doctors exhaust traditional medical interventions, or the individual can no longer benefit from pain medications because of their side effects. Chapin & Russell Associates offers alternative cognitive and behavioral interventions that can help clients improve pain management and reduce dependence on strong pain medications.
The Link Between Physical and Mental Health
Although therapy and counseling can treat or mitigate chronic pain symptoms, they may not completely eliminate pain. Instead, counseling addresses our clients’ anger, sadness, and fear that can accompany chronic pain. Those with chronic pain often experience symptoms such as depression, stress, anxiety, hopelessness and insomnia. Unfortunately, these same symptoms can impact pain intensity and how your body reacts. Chronic pain can lead to mental health struggles, which can increase suffering and further exacerbate your mental health symptoms. Thankfully, you can end this cycle through counseling with Chapin & Russell Associates.
How Can We Help?
Chapin & Russell Associate’s counselors in Peoria IL understand the best psychological treatments for reducing the symptoms that indirectly impact chronic pain. Interventions including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), stress management, coping skills training, or neurotherapy, provide clients with the means to overcome chronic pain’s worst symptoms.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – CBT, one form of talk therapy, is the most common counseling approach for chronic pain. By modifying some of your self-defeating thoughts, beliefs and attitudes surrounding your chronic pain, you can learn to regulate the amount of pain you experience. CBT can be done in conjunction with care being provided by your existing healthcare professionals to develop a fully integrated pain management program.
- Stress Management – Stress is one of the many factors that can directly impact chronic pain, causing serious muscle tension or spasms. Chapin & Russell Associates’ counselors teach those with chronic pain different strategies, such as relaxation techniques (yoga, meditation, breathing exercises, etc.).
- Coping Skills Training – Counseling to overcome apprehension about returning to appropriate levels of physical activity and mindfulness exercises are just two of the many ways there are to cope more constructively with chronic pain. Chapin & Russell Associates assists our clients to learn and implement the most effective coping methods.
- Neurotherapy – Trained specialists at the Neurotherapy Institute of Central Illinois, a division of Chapin & Russell Associates, offer neurofeedback therapy. Using sensors attached to your scalp, we monitor brainwave activity in response to pain. The information gathered helps individuals learn how to control their physical responses to pain, which can reduce pain symptoms and help improve overall quality of life and functioning.
Call Today
Don’t let chronic pain overwhelm you. You can learn alternative methods of pain management with help from Chapin & Russell Associates. To learn more about our pain management therapy or additional counseling services, contact us today at 309-681-5850. We are located at 3020 W Willow Knolls Dr, Suite 2, Peoria, IL 61614. We offer telehealth and general counseling services for clients in Peoria, East Peoria, Dunlap, Washington, and communities throughout Central Illinois.
