Jessica Papa, DPT - Arancia Physical Therapy

When something like chronic pain strikes in your knee, lower-back, neck or shoulders, or if you experience an injury from sport or exercise - we know it's very tempting to leave it and hope it'll simply "go away on its own" with time and rest... That you'll wake up someday and like "magic", it'll be as if it never happened in the first place - but that's usually not the case, and often the pain ends up worse than it was when it first started. We also know it's very easy to reach into the back of the cupboard for the painkillers, and take them whenever pain strikes so it eases off fast - but all those painkillers are no good for your health long-term, and do nothing but mask the pain instead.