Role of Physiotherapy in Pain Management.

P is generally the symptom that brings a person to a healthcare pract i t ioner looking for re l ie f . As informed by the American Pain Society, 45% of the American population seeks medical attention for chronic pain.1 Because complaints of pain are so varied, non-specif ic or diverse, 2 what may be tolerable at one instance suddenly becomes unbearable to the same person in another circumstance. The exact same injury to two different persons has totally different responses. This is not easily explained as the nervous system, that is chiefly responsible for pain perception and awareness. The nervous system is connected to other systems and organs in an intricate network and the pain transmission methods are equally complex. There is constant mediation of higher centres that make it even more challenging to figure out.3 Physiotherapists attempt to utilise a combination of strategies to bring pain relief to their patients. They know that pain is not only subjective, but an objective experience.