Page 18 - How long will it take me to heal and why?

symptoms or pain comes back, it means the body

cannot handle the problem on its own and needs

further treatment to hopefully get it to where it can

handle the problem without medical intervention.

It should be noted that some medical conditions

can become so severe that no amount of medical

intervention will help the body to fully heal. In

these cases palliative care can be given to keep the

level of pain low and the quality of your life as

high as possible.

It may be difficult to demonstrate initially that

you are improving once the symptoms are gone.

However, it is not difficult to demonstrate that the

body is remaining at a lower level of function after

treatment is discontinued. As demonstrated by the

“patch-up job” graph, if the body remains at a

lower level of function, the problem will reoccur,

usually within three to six months or less.