How is somatic pain treated?

How is somatic pain treated?

Marc Darrow (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Joint Rehabilitation Sports Medical Center, Inc. ) gives expert video advice on: What are some specific types of chronic pain?; What is "somatic pain"?; How is somatic pain treated? and more...

Due to the fact that somatic pain deals with so many different types of pain, there's no easy way to describe how to treat somatic pain unless we know which specific form of it we're dealing with. If it's a joint pain, we might be dealing with an injection into the joint. We might be dealing with using a cortisone injection which is a steroid injection to dis-inflame the joint. We might be using a trigger point of a local anaesthetic into the area around a joint. We might be using prolotherapy that actually grows more collagen, or cartilage, inside of a joint. If it's a tendon, the same type of things can be used. There can be acupuncture that can be used. For somatic pain, it can be great to use physical therapy, which is either active; moving the body, strengthening, doing more range of motion, or doing passive modalities; things like ultrasound, electrical stimulation, things of that nature.