Living With Pain For 12 Weeks Or More

Most providers are set up to handle new injuries. You sprain your ankle, you tweak your back, you pull a muscle. They give you a few exercises, maybe some therapy, maybe a shot, and your body does the rest. The truth is that most injuries get better on their own. And when they do, it feels like the treatment worked.But what happens when pain does not go away? What happens when you hit that 12-week mark and you are still hurting? That is when things change. That is when you are not in the simple recovery bucket anymore. You are in chronic pain territory.And this is where most providers do not know what to do.

Why Providers Struggle With Chronic Pain

The medical system is built for speed. See the patient, give the standard care, move to the next room. That is not laziness. That is just how the system works. It is efficient for new injuries. It is not built for complex pain cases.Chronic pain does not fit into neat boxes. It does not respond to quick protocols. If you have been in pain for 12 weeks or more, and especially if you have been through 3 or more providers without lasting relief, you already know this.This is where insurance-based care often runs out of gas. And again, if your pain goes away in a handful of visits covered by insurance, that is fantastic. That is how the system is designed. But if you are still hurting months later, you need something different.

What We Do Differently

At Resolve STS in SouthPark Charlotte, we take a different path. We slow down. We go deep. Every piece of your story has to make sense. We want to know how your pain started, how it has changed, what makes it worse, and what you have already tried. We want the full picture.No stone gets left unturned. That is the standard here.We test your range of motion joint by joint. We palpate with trained hands to feel for adhesion and nerve entrapment. Adhesion is like glue that locks muscles, tendons, and nerves together. It restricts blood flow and movement. It is the single most common and most overlooked cause of chronic pain in adults.Other providers are not missing it because they do not care. They miss it because they were never trained to find it. That is why you can have multiple “normal” scans and still be in pain. Adhesion never shows up on an MRI or X-ray. It hides in plain sight until someone trained to feel it checks.When we find it, we go layer by layer breaking it down. That restores motion first. Then we build strength and stability on top of clean movement. That sequence matters. If you skip it, you end up stuck in the therapy-injection loop forever.

Why This Fires Me Up

I get excited about this because it is where I know we make the biggest impact. Anyone can help a sprained ankle. Anyone can help a simple tweak. But the person who has been in pain for six months or a year, has seen multiple providers, has been told “everything looks normal” — that is my person. That is where I know we can change a life.This is not easy work. It takes patience. It takes a detailed system. That is why we use Adhesion Release Methods (ARM). ARM is not just a technique. It is a framework for breaking down tough cases step by step. It forces us to ask better questions, to test everything, and to connect the dots in a way most systems never do.And when it works, it is not temporary. It is not another patch. It is real progress that lasts.

Who We Are For

If you have had pain for six months or longer, if you have tried at least three providers, if you have been told “we do not know what else to do,” then you are exactly the kind of patient we built this clinic for.People drive hours to see us in Charlotte because this level of detail and focus is rare. We cannot help everyone, and we will tell you that upfront. But if adhesion and nerve entrapment are the missing pieces in your case, nobody is better equipped to find it and fix it.If you are tired of spinning on the medical merry-go-round, if you are tired of clean scans and no answers, it may be time to take a different approach.Book a consultation with Zac here so we can learn your story and help you get the permanent pain relief you deserve.