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Have you been involved in a car accident in Sacramento, California recently or many years ago?

​ Are you thinking of seeking chronic pain relief from a Sacramento massage therapist?  If so, the following article from Massage Magazine may help you know if massage therapy is right for your chronic pain relief and if it is possible to have  pain, even though the car accident happened  many, many years ago.

Research has indicated massage therapy is an effective treatment for pain relief. For a new study, 
researchers set out to determine the relationship between physically traumatic events and the onset of chronic widespread pain.

Chronic widespread pain was determined by questionnaire, as per the American College of Rheumatology 
fibromyalgia classification criteria, according to an abstract published on www.pubmed.gov. 
Data were also collected on psychological health, health behavior and sleep problems.

“Participants without chronic widespread pain were then followed up four years, and (new-onset) 
chronic widespread pain was determined in the same manner,” the abstract noted. “At follow-up, 
participants were also asked to report whether they had experienced any of a series of physically 
traumatic events between baseline and follow-up.”

A total of 2,069 individuals (46.6 percent) participated at follow-up, and 241 of these individuals 
(11.6 percent) reported chronic widespread pain, the abstract noted: “More than one-third of the study 
population reported at least one physically traumatic event; there was some evidence to suggest that 
involvement in a road traffic accident, specifically, may confer an increase in the risk of chronic 
widespread pain onset.”

This study provides support for the “at risk” phenotype hypothesis, where individuals characterized by 
poorer health and psychological variables may be predisposed to develop chronic widespread pain following 
a traumatic trigger, according to the abstract.

“However, although this has been seen with road traffic accidents, it is not the case with other events,”
 the researchers noted. “Future research should examine what is peculiar about an accident, or about 
 one’s reaction to it, that confers this increase in the risk of chronic widespread pain onset.”

“Role of road traffic accidents and other traumatic events in the onset of chronic widespread pain: 
Results from a population-based prospective study” is published in the journal Arthritis Care & Research, 
a publication of the American College of Rheumatology (2011 May;63(5):696-701.)"

I believe chronic pain stems not only from car accidents, but from emotional triggers as well.  For this reason, Release the Pain addresses the whole factors of body, mind & soul when providing pain relief for Sacramento area clients.