Chronic pain can have real effects on your day-to-day life and your mental health. Chronic pain is different than regular pain. Doctors often define chronic pain as any pain that lasts for 3 to 6 months or more. Usually the pain signal stops when the cause is resolved. For example, your body repairs the wound on your finger or your torn muscle. But with chronic pain, the nerve signals keep firing even after you’ve healed. Your body keeps hurting weeks, months, or even years after the injury.
Radiofrequency ablation deactivates the nerves responsible for sending pain signals to the brain. Coolief is the only currently known radiofrequency pain management system using water-cooled technology to safely deactivate pain-transmitting sensory nerves, allowing a larger treatment area and greater chance at targeting pain-causing nerves. There was an 83% reduction in patients experiencing symptoms of severe arthritis.
Coolief is a viable option for many patients who aren’t ready or eligible for surgery. Compared to steroid injections, Coolief has demonstrated improved pain relief, functionality, and patient satisfaction. Coolief is a short procedure that can help you return to normal activities within a week or two. One year after treatment 2/3 of patients cut pain in half. Unlike surgery, Coolief involves no incision.
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Sue Bartoszewski Coolief Testimonial
Can you imagine not being able to
walk just 50 feet from your kitchen to your bedroom without taking a break for
pain relief? Or, how about abandoning your shopping cart at your grocery story
because you couldn’t stand any longer to wait in the check-out lane? For
60-year-old nurse manager Sue Bartoszewski this was an unfortunate reality.
Sue was having health problems
associated with being overweight. In 2007, she watched her son complete his
first Ironman triathlon and something clicked for Sue. She was inspired and
decided it was time to commit to a healthier lifestyle. Sue started walking on
the treadmill working her way up to running. She incorporated swimming and
biking into her exercise routine and ultimately decided to train for her first
Ironman triathlon. It was around this time that Sue noticed a localized pain in
her lower back that extended to her left hip and down her leg to her knee. For
months Sue dismissed the pain and powered through it, but the more she
exercised, the more pain she experienced. Frustrated and fed up with her
limiting lifestyle, Sue sought professional advice.
Sue is a clinical nurse manager for
surgical services at Centegra Hospital-McHenry where she has worked for 30
years. As a nurse, Sue works closely with physicians and consulted with her
colleague and pain medicine specialist, Dr. Terri Dallas-Prunskis, about her
lower back pain. Initially Dr. Dallas-Prunskis suspected Sue’s facet joints
(small stabilizing joints) were causing the pain and she treated these joints
with standard radiofrequency and performed diagnostic facet joint injections
obtaining some pain relief. Shortly thereafter, a new treatment called cooled
radiofrequency was available and Dr. Dallas-Prunskis administered the cooled
radiofrequency on Sue’s facet joints. While the treatment relieved some of
Sue’s back pain, it didn’t completely alleviate it.
Sue and Dr. Dallas-Prunskis
discussed other possible sources that were causing her pain and decided to try
a non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory local injection into the sacroiliac joint
(the joint that connects the tailbone to the pelvis, or hipbone). The local
injection finally gave Sue the relief she was seeking. Now with the exact
source of pain identified, Dr. Dallas-Prunskis treated Sue’s sacroiliac joint
with the Coolief Sinergy Cooled RF, a minimally invasive, non-pharmacological
treatment option for those suffering from sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain. Within
three to four days of receiving the treatment Sue noticed a marked difference,
and within three to four weeks her pain completely disappeared and has never
returned.
Sue competed in the Ironman
Wisconsin, merely eight months after receiving the SInergy Cooled
Radiofrequency (RF) treatment. She was thrilled that she was able to complete
and finish first in her age group, which gave her a qualifying slot for the
World Championship race in Kona in 2013, a feat that would never have been
possible before her Cooled RF treatment.
“Being able walk pain-free is a
blessing. Being able to walk without showing the pain is a skill.” (Kylie
McPherson)[i]
[i] Adapted from the website: https://www.mycoolief.com
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