Pain Management Supplemented by TCM

For a long time, pain management was not considered one of modern medicine’s success stories. It was only gradually that pain emerged as a distinct medical problem in its own right, and with it came the recognition of pain-induced chronicity and the patient’s pain history.

At the Verus Clinic, we use exclusively integrative methods of pain management, combining scientifically proven findings from conventional medicine – based on empirical evidence – with psychotherapeutic approaches (including body therapy), balmio-physical and physiotherapeutic methods, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) techniques. Where appropriate, this therapeutic approach can be expanded through our collaboration with specialist pain therapists in the region.

One example of this is traditional Chinese medicine, which shares many commonalities with modern behavioural therapy theories and mindfulness-based methods.

Here, too, the Verus Clinic is characterised in particular by its integrative approach to problems, which, on the one hand, combines traditional and modern methods and, on the other, regards the body and mind as a single entity, the parts of which cannot be successfully separated.

We draw on a wide range of techniques in our pain management programme:

• Traditional massage
• Lymphatic drainage
• Foot reflexology
• Alternating arm and leg baths
• Heat applications
• Air bubble and relaxation baths
• Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Moxibustion therapy
• Cupping therapy
• Manual therapy
• Analgesic therapy
• Multimodal pain management in collaboration with specialist local pain therapists