2022 Australian Government figures show that one in four Australians over the age of 85 suffers from chronic pain. GPs have found that more people are suffering from chronic pain, with a 67% increase in patient visits over 10 years. Moreover, many elderly people often ignore the treatment of chronic pain, thinking that this is a normal manifestation of aging, and it is good to endure it for a while.
But you don’t know that this tolerance will cause chronic pain to plague you for a long time, from a few weeks to several years.
Physiotherapy is a medical profession that prevents, treats, and manages movement and pain problems caused by disease or injury. In this article, we invite physiotherapist Yao Chong from HEA Healthcare to introduce how physiotherapy can help the elderly cope with pain.
