Living with pain isn’t just about gritting your teeth through the discomfort. It hijacks your life, steals your joy, and leaves you wondering if you’ll ever feel normal again. You’ve probably tried everything—or at least it feels that way when nothing seems to work.
The truth is, chronic pain is messy. It doesn’t play by the rules. And if you’re nodding along to this, joining the roughly 50 million Americans dealing with persistent pain, you probably already know.
Getting to the Bottom of Your Pain
You know what’s frustrating? When you’re told, “Your pain is all in your head” or “Just take these pills and deal with it.”
That’s not how we work at Eclipse.
Our approach? Figure out what’s ACTUALLY happening in your body. You can’t fix what you don’t understand.
Blood Work
Sometimes we start with basic blood work. You wouldn’t believe how often we find things like vitamin D deficiency making pain MUCH worse. It happens more than you’d think.
But for the tough cases—the ones where conventional approaches have failed you—we dig deeper:
Pharmacogenetic Testing
How have you ever taken a medication that did absolutely nothing for you while your friend got total relief? Your genes might be why. Pharmacogenetic testing—which is finally becoming more mainstream after years on the medical fringes—tells us how YOUR unique body processes medications.
EMG Studies
EMG study measures the electrical activity in your muscles and nerves. It’s not the most comfortable procedure, but incredibly valuable for pinpointing nerve issues you might be experiencing.
ANS Assessment
Your autonomic nervous system controls your fight-or-flight response. When it’s not working right? Pain signals can go haywire. ANS testing helps us see if your body’s stress-response system is contributing to your pain.
Injection-Based Treatments
Here’s where things get interesting. Once we know what’s happening in YOUR body, we can target treatments specifically for YOUR situation. These are particularly effective for many patients:
PRP & Joint Injections
Rather than just masking your symptoms, Platelet Rich Plasma uses healing factors from your own blood to actually repair damaged tissue. It sounds sci-fi, but the results can be impressive.
Trigger Point Injections
For those “knots” in your muscles that feel like someone embedded a golf ball under your skin. The immediate relief some patients feel from Trigger Point Injection is almost magical.
Epidural Steroid Injections
This is not the same as the epidural during childbirth. Epidural Steroid Injection target inflammation around pinched nerves in your spine. When these injections work, it’s like someone finally turned off the pain switch.
Nerve-Focused Approaches
Sometimes the problem isn’t the painful area itself but the messenger—your nerves:
Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
Think of it as a traffic jam for pain signals. A small device sends competing signals to block the pain messages. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation is not for everyone, but for the right candidates? Life-changing.
Spinal Cord Stimulation
The big gun when other treatments haven’t worked for you. It’s amazing technology, but Spinal Cord Stimulation does require a surgical procedure and isn’t without risks.
Beyond the High-Tech Solutions
Not everything effective requires fancy equipment or procedures:
Physical Therapy
The DPT team at Eclipse is incredible. They don’t just give you generic exercises—they look at how your whole body moves and compensates. The right PT program addresses not just where it hurts but WHY it hurts.
Laser Therapy
Eclipse invested in cutting-edge laser equipment last fall, and the results have been impressive. MLS Laser Therapy works at the cellular level to reduce inflammation and speed healing.
Massage
Don’t roll your eyes—we’re talking about therapeutic massage by licensed professionals who understand anatomy and pain patterns, not just a feel-good spa treatment.
The Eclipse Difference in Pain Management
You’ve probably heard a lot of promises from medical providers before. But what really sets Eclipse Clinic apart?
We treat you like a whole person, not a collection of symptoms.
At Eclipse, our team works together—they actually talk to each other about your case. Your pain management doctor knows what your physical therapist is doing, and vice versa.
And Eclipse believes in combining approaches for you. Maybe you need a procedure to reduce the pain intensity PLUS physical therapy to fix the underlying movement issue PLUS some lifestyle strategies to manage flare-ups. One-size-fits-all solutions rarely work for complex pain.
Taking that First Step to a Pain Free Life
Pain has probably already stolen too much from your life. Missed events with your kids. Hobbies abandoned. Nights staring at the ceiling wondering if this is just how it’s going to be forever.
It doesn’t have to be that way for you.
Ready to try a different approach? Reach out to Eclipse Clinic today. Your future self, the one without constant pain, will thank you.