What is pain, and how can Quadrivas Therapy help you?
In this blogpost, we’ll take a deep dive into your body to explain pain. What is pain? What causes it? When can Quadrivas bring relief? Buckle up, because here we go for our deep dive. (🇳🇱 versie)
What is Pain?
The Australian Government’s healthcare website explains pain so well that we won’t try to rewrite it. Here’s the source:
The Nature and Science of Pain (leads to Australian ACI: Agency for Clinical Innovation)
The article distinguishes acute pain, sub-acute pain, recurrent pain, and chronic pain. It defines pain as: “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.”
Your nerve endings have nociceptors, which are activated by a biological stimulus of sufficient intensity to threaten tissue damage. Activation of these nociceptors sends impulses to your brain via the spine, triggering an adverse emotional sensation along the way.
Pain can also be neuropathic, with various causes, such as phantom pain from amputation, postherpetic neuralgia from shingles, or stressed fascia when your veins leak fluid into your connective tissue.
(Yes, acute pain can develop into chronic pain. Studies show that chronic pain has a distinct pathology that can worsen over time, even without an obvious cause. It can result in severe physical, psychological, and environmental changes, making it a disease entity in its own right.)
Fascia and Pain
Many people who visit my clinic seeking relief, describe their pain as if it were muscle pain. But, what they feel may not actually be muscle pain, but a sensation coming from a part of the body most people haven’t heard of: fascia.
Quadrivas Therapy is a manual therapy. During each session, I use my hands and fingers to scan your body. I’m familiar with how muscles, fat, bones, veins, and other tissues like the fascia feel like. Let me introduce you to your fascia.
Fascia is a thin casing of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber, and muscle in place. This tissue does more than provide internal structure; it has nerves that make it almost as sensitive as skin. When stressed, your fascia tightens up.
Healthy fascia is smooth, slippery, and flexible. However, factors that cause fascia to become gummy and crinkled (called adhesions) include:
- A sedentary lifestyle (too little movement day after day)
- Repetitive movements that overwork one part of the body
- Trauma from surgery or injury
For more, see: Fascia-Related Muscle Pain and Stiffness (leads to Hopkins Medicine)
How Can Quadrivas Treatment Help with Pain?
Quadrivas Therapy can help determine whether your pain is caused by muscles, fascia, or something else.
Quadrivas has proven to help with these conditions:
- Lipedema
- Lymphedema
- Diabetes
- Poorly healing wounds
- Rehabilitation after an accident
- Long-Covid
- Fibromyalgia
- Chronic Pain
- Vascular Insufficiency
Whatever causes your pain, we will create a treatment plan in which Quadrivas is part of the solution. We’ll also examine long-term effects on your body with a three-drop blood test, considering what you consume. Movement and a healthy diet are also key aspects of the plan. To put it simply: Quadrivas Therapy works well, and it works even better when combined with improved diet and physical activity.
Pain and fascia are connected in this article because I’ve found that understanding your pain helps you manage it better. I’m here to help your body function as it should again.
