1.5 million suffer

Physiotherapists dispel pain myths

The value of physiotherapy is great when patients and therapists form a good alliance.

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Around 1.5 million Austrians suffer from chronic pain. In regular surveys, one in two people say they have been plagued by pain recently. At the top of the list is pain in the musculoskeletal system, especially in the back and neck. If there is a pulling, throbbing or burning sensation in the body, we are worried and sometimes think of the worst.

"In the past, it was generally assumed that pain must be caused by physical damage. We now know this: One does not necessarily cause the other. There is pain without damage as the cause," says Tyrolean physiotherapist Clemens Niederholzer. Pain without damage - but how to find the cause and a therapy?