Reset Your Limits

Reset your limits and recommit to an active lifestyle with Southeast Pain Care.

Being active is essential to living a healthy life. Whether you suffer from chronic pain, or periodic pain, it has been proven that exercise can reduce your pain and improve your life. This site contains information about how you can get active, feel better, and how Southeast Pain Care's interventional techniques can reset your limits; getting you moving again. To celebrate your active lifestyle Southeast Pain Care is sponsoring the Whitewater River Jam Concert Series at the US National Whitewater Center. Please click here for event dates.

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Your Questions Answered!

What conditions benefit most from exercise or physical activity?

I have back pain and my doctor insists I should be more active, but I am worried it will make my pain worse. What should I do?

What is the most common form of pain?

SEPC Locations

Southeast Pain Care currently operates a network of 12 pain management clinics serving more than 45,000 patients each year throughout North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

Fitness Is Work, But Not Impossible

Regina is one dedicated exerciser. "I feel blessed that every morning I wake up healthy and able to work out," she says. Her typical 90-minute routine includes an elliptical warm-up followed by 10 total-body exercises. She alternates strength moves (think squats with shoulder presses) with core exercises and plyometrics, like jump lunges.

Little Known Wellness Stats

In many counties in the Appalachia and Southern regions, more than 29 percent of adults reported getting no physical activity or exercise other than at their regular job. (1)

Physical activity can help control weight, reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some cancers, strengthen bones and muscles, and improve mental health. (1)

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Soreness or Injury?

Both soreness and pain are unpleasant sensations. For practical purposes we think of clinical pain as being an uncomfortable sensation that suggests potential or actual tissue damage. A more practical way of thinking about it is that pain is something that generally persists over time.

Simple Solutions To Help With Your Pain

The last thing anyone wants to do when in pain is exercise. Certain injuries require allowing the body time to recover. However, mental and physical discomfort shouldn’t always be used as an excuse to slow down. In fact, many times, the desire for bed rest may actually be counterproductive. This certainly appears to be the case with some very common, inflammatory conditions that affect both the body and the mind.

Practical Solutions To Help With Back Pain

A typical response to experiencing back pain is to take it easy - either staying in bed or at least stopping any activity that is at all strenuous. While this approach is understandable and may even be recommended in the short term, when done for more than a day or two it can actually undermine healing.

SEPC Helps CRPS Patient

Due to an injury to my foot as a child, I have dealt with pain for many years now. Gradually, the nerve damage that I sustained has gotten worse and worse.

On a daily basis, I have to worry about one of my children stepping on my foot, hitting it on something, or dropping something on it. Even wearing socks and shoes can be torturous...

Backpain Sufferer Speaks

Pain has greatly affected my life for 20 years. For 5 of those years, I was quite literally bed-ridden due to back pain. I couldn't attend my daughter's performances, couldn't keep house, couldn’t shop for groceries and at times I couldn't even attend to my own personal hygiene. I don't feel I was a strong presence in my children's lives due to the pain.