Chronic Pain Program

Are you desperate for some pain relief?

If so, Renew You’s chronic pain program may just be for you. We offer a safe and effective option for extreme pain situations. Applying highly unique massage techniques, Registered Massage Therapist Ken H. unlocks the mystery of chronic pain.

This program has a high degree of effectiveness to provide significant relief for many persons in the following situations;
5-20+ year chronic pain cases

• Cases where the strongest medications may not help
• Cases where you want to be taken to the emergency room
• Cases where you may not be making progress with other disciplines
• Challenging motor vehicle accident cases
• Situations with significant post surgical restrictions

Sound incredible? If so, we are glad you found us. If you are one of these types of cases, you need to read on… (more information)

Chronic Pain Program Specifics

What Is It?
Specifically, the work is registered massage therapy that uses a few extra specialized gentle massage techniques designed to alleviate the cause of pain. These techniques are very safe, particularly very gentle, yet highly effective.

What Types of Pain Can It Help?
The good news is the program can help a wide variety of pain situations including the following;

Pain so severe Demerol or morphine may be required

• Back, neck & shoulder pain
  
• Feet, knees, leg and arm pain
  
• Migraine headaches (chronic)
  

Cases where other disciplines may discharge you without results because you are a “mystery” to them.

• Carpel tunnel
  
• Motor vehicle accidents
  
• Post surgical situations
  
• Phantom pain (amputees)

How Does It Work?
The basis of Ken’s work is to apply gentle massage techniques that focus a little bit more on bones and joints versus muscles and connective tissue. This unique body of work focuses on identifying and alleviating “joint dysfunction”, and works towards correcting the underlying cause of the pain which more often than not is in a completely different part of your body.

What Exactly Is Being Done?
To be as accurate as possible, Ken is gently massaging areas around joints and bones where he is trying to relieve tension, reduce inflammation and increase joint mobility.

What Makes This Massage So Effective Against Pain?
While massage therapy will routinely address muscles, ligaments, connective tissue as well as joints and bones, this program focuses a little bit more on the relationship of bones to one another.

How Effective Is The Program?
The program has a high degree of effectiveness overall. To many of our clients, Ken’s work is a God send because he is frequently is able to get results where nothing else is working. But don’t get unrealistically excited, it is not perfect by any means.

Some clients get results of 100% improvement permanently, while others are beyond satisfied simply to get a 70-80% reduction. Some cases are beyond our ability to help. And yet for others the best we can do is to help them get a good amount of temporary relief where an ongoing regular maintenance program is necessary.

Just like everything else there are varying degrees of success here. Though keep in mind the severity of these cases are ones that we frequently hear that nothing else at all period is helping – they are either extreme in the absolute level of pain or extreme in the inordinate long term chronic duration or both.

Sounds Pretty Incredulous Doesn’t It?
Here’s an extreme example; a gal gets referred to us from her doctor. She was involved in a severe car accident 2 ½ years prior where they had to use the “jaws of life” to pry her out of the vehicle. During the ensuing 2 ½ years, she had 2 shoulder surgeries, did physiotherapy 3 times per week, had weekly massage and acupuncture (all elsewhere), and was waiting for a third surgery.

At the time she comes to Renew You, she said she was experiencing pain of about 9 to 10 daily on a scale of 1 to 10 on an on-going basis 24/7. With absolutely all due respect to other disciplines, it is known that a small percentage of cases are very hard to solve and mysteriously challenging.

After 3 treatments, this gal exits the clinic almost crying – tears of joy. She explains she is experiencing about a 25-30% pain reduction for a few days after each treatment, and regains some hope that she may actually get better one day. Nothing to that point had given her that type of relief.

Fast forward to present (January 2005); at this point after 6 months of weekly therapy, she is experiencing time periods of two plus weeks of being pain free where her biggest challenge is stiffness. She is able to care for and enjoy her 2 young children without pain. Needless to say she is beyond ecstatic to have found Renew You and Ken, and pleads for him to never move away and leave the area.

How Many Treatments Will Be Required?
As we are sure you will appreciate, every case is different. Yet here is a rule of thumb; relatively easier cases to solve may require 4-6 therapy sessions. Moderate cases may require 10-15 treatments, and severe cases need more and may even need protracted or ongoing treatment.

Bear in mind this programs focus are the really extreme cases – chronic and long term. If you have only hurt yourself in the past few months and or can continue working, you do not yet qualify for this program. It is reserved for the truly extreme extreme cases.

Who Is Ken H?
Ken is a formally trained and licensed Registered Massage Therapist here in Ontario. While born, bread and trained in Japan, he immigrated to Canada many years ago. What makes him unique is the body of work that he practices and the type of extreme cases he is able to help. And the fact, that he had to work in a clinic and apprentice under a Master for FIVE YEARS – after he completed a 2 year massage therapy program in Japan (which he had to repeat here).

What Can You Realistically Expect?
Some people (but certainly not all) may remarkably experience up to a 50% pain reduction after the very first treatment. Others may take 3-4 sessions before they start to see benefit. Because many of these cases are so severe, some clients view them as a success if they are only able to receive 40-60% pain reduction understandably. Some we can get back to 100% while others are ecstatic to maximize their progress at a 70-80% relief. And a percentage only gets temporary relief they are so bad. Every case is different.

Program Overview

Here are the basics;
You come in for 1 hour massage treatments once per week consistently on an ongoing basis. The only exception is 50% of the cases need 2 treatments in the first week.

Each session only costs $70.00 (standard 1 hour massage therapy rates). Ken is an RMT and his work is covered by extended health benefit plans.

The scope of his work requires a minimum commitment of 3 treatments. From there he will have a very clear idea of how far you can get and how long it may take.

The results are cumulative, and consistent weekly continuity of treatments is very important.

The work is above clothes. Wear loose comfortable, casual clothing.

Do not expect miracles (though some call it just that), but do expect more than more than what little progress you may have made so far elsewhere.

Please feel free to call (905) 304-0111 or e-mail us (click) if you have any questions. You may write out a detailed health history of your case, forward it to us by e-mail or fax (905) 304-9544 and we’ll be happy schedule a free 10-15 minute telephone consultation to discuss it with you.

For more information please contact the clinic (905) 304-0111. Or SEND AN E-MAIL>> or to BOOK AN APPOINTMENT>>

Renew You Holistic Health
(Serving Hamilton, Ancaster, Burlington, Stoney Creek & Dundas since 2003)
1100 Golf Links Road #B-6
Hamilton Ancaster On L9G 3K9
(Meadowlands Power Centre: next to Golf Town, Covers & Quiznos)
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The Renew You clinic services the Hamilton Wentworth, Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Halton Peel regions of Southern Ontario which includes the following cities;
Hamilton, Ancaster, Dundas, Stoney Creek, Burlington, Oakville, Mississauga, Toronto, Waterdown, Binbrook, Caledonia, Jerseyville, Cambridge, Brantford, Flamborough, Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Brampton, London, Grimsby, Beamsville, St Catharines, Welland, Niagara Falls, Dunneville and Simcoe.