Work Injury

At Chandler Pain Clinic we treat the worker, not just their pain.

Chandler Pain Clinic is a licensed Arizona worker’s compensation facility and we treat work injuries differently. We focus on fixing the work injury and correcting its cause, not just treating the pain to get the worker back on the job. Otherwise, the worker is being set up to become a chronic injured worker with an injury and an outcome that is much worse later on.

There are two types of work injuries, acute and sudden, back pain with a fall or lifting injury. There are also chronic and insidious work injuries, such as repetitive job motion leading to rotator cuff pain (shoulder) or carpal tunnel syndrome (hand and arm). There is bad work posture causing neck strain and pain or headaches. What needs to happen for both these type of injuries to resolve, is that symptoms need to be reduced; pain, stiffness, spasm, weakness or numbness. But also, the damaged body structure, that caused the symptoms needs to be corrected; the nerve pressure taken off, the scar tissue removed, the irritation causing the inflammation fixed. Finally, the circumstances that led to the injury in the first place need to be corrected; improved ergonomics and work posture, stronger core strength or flexibility. Otherwise, the stresses and the duties of the job will certainly cause the symptoms to return. As this happens again and again, the injury is now chronic and has become the rule instead of the exception. This is bad for the worker, the employer and the insurance company, because now the worker is not so much a valued and happy employee, but an unhappy liability.

What we do at Chandler Pain Clinic is use a combination of Chiropractic, physical therapy, massage and Active Release Technique (A.R.T.), to fix the injury and not just treat the pain. We work with the worker and identify and correct the circumstances that led up to the injury, thus creating a permanent solution and avoiding re-injury and the chronic problems that this leads to.

Please know that under Arizona State Worker’s Compensation law, an injured worker must see an employer recommended doctor for the first visit only. After the first visit, they can be treated by any Arizona licensed facility that they wish too.