Health & Wellness Newsletter by Partner's In Physical Therapy
2020
HEALTH &WELLNESS NEWSLETTER
SAVE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY BY SEEKING RELIEF IS IT BACK PAIN OR SCIATICA?
INSIDE: • Understanding Back Pain
• Patient Success Spotlight • Relieve Back Pain In Minutes
• Discover How To Live Pain-free
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2020
HEALTH &WELLNESS NEWSLETTER
YOU CAN DO IT, PUT YOUR BACK INTO IT! SEEK RELIEF FROM BACK PAIN & SCIATICA
INSIDE: • Understanding Back Pain • Mental Health Services! • Patient Success Spotlight • Relieve Back Pain In Minutes
Whether you have been injured or have been suffering from pain for a long time, seeing a physical therapist at Partners In Physical Therapy can help you return to a more active and pain-free life. Give us a call at 337-439-3344 today! do when you are looking to overcome back pain. A physical therapist can identify the cause of the back pain and present you with helpful strategies that can strengthen your back and reduce the severity of your pain. Physical therapy for back pain often includes a combination of targeted massage, flexibility and range of motion training, muscle building, and targeted stretching techniques. Using these strategies in combination with anti-inflammatory medication, as recommended by your physician, is often considered the most-efficient approach to handling back pain and is recommended by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
Does life ever feel like one large pain in the back? Back pain is difficult to deal with on a daily basis, yet for so many people, this is a total reality. By certain estimates, as many as 85 percent of adults in the United States struggle with back pain at some point in their lives. The most common type of back pain experienced is in the lower back, and it can happen for any variety of reasons. Being in a car accident can cause you to experience lingering back pain for years after the accident. Accidents at work can lead to similar consequences. But sometimes the cause of your back pain isn’t as straightforward. Back pain can also develop for any number of common reasons — things that you do every day without thinking twice. An old desk chair that doesn’t provide much lumbar support can take its toll over time, as can wearing shoes that don’t have much support, or even gaining weight, particularly around the stomach area. Too many people consider back pain a normal experience of their lives and don’t immediately seek support that could make the pain an issue of the past. Working with a physical therapist is hands down, the best thing that you can
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UNDERSTANDING BACK PAIN
Being educated about your back pain can help you make the right choices to overcome it as quickly as possible. One of the biggest problems with back pain is that it lingers. This leads many people to deal with back pain for years on end without seemingly any end in sight. While there is back pain that develops as a result of strain or sprain, there is also something called low back degenerative disc disease, which happens when the discs in your spine weaken. This frequently develops as a result of repetitive back injury and can also develop as a result of age. With degenerative disc disease, the space between the discs begins to collapse and become unstable and will cause back pain to develop. When you work with a physical therapist to overcome back pain as a result of degenerative disc disease, your physical therapist will begin by strengthening core muscle groups, which includes the abdominal wall, and will provide you with targeted massage and stretching techniques to alleviate pain. While some back pain is easy to identify as pain, such as is the case with degenerative disc disease, there are other situations in which the pain may be a bit more complicated to understand. One of the most common back issues experienced in the United States is sciatica pain, and this sort of pain is often a lot more difficult to identify — especially by those who aren’t familiar with the problem. How can you tell the difference between back pain and sciatica pain? The answer is that sciatica pain is characterized by the following factors: • Constant pain is only present on one side of the buttocks or leg • The pain becomes worse when you are sitting • The leg pain develops more like a burning, tingling or searing sensation, and not as a plain ache • There is a sharp pain that occurs at times, making it sometimes difficult to stand or walk • The pain is radiating, shooting down the leg and sometimes even into the feet and toes
Sciatica pain develops in the nerves that connect the lower back to the legs, and so while the pain itself is generated from the back, a lot of time, the experience of the pain is more largely associated with the upper legs. What’s more, sciatica pain doesn’t always develop like pain in the traditional sense. Sciatica pain instead causes a buildup of tingling, numbness, and weakness in the lower back and upper legs, and the pain isn’t consistent either. The sensation will typically run through the leg in waves, causing discomfort at seemingly unpredictable times. If you are experiencing back pain and you haven’t talked to a medical professional about the concern, then now is the time to take action. Working with a physical therapist can cut your time struggling with back pain literally in half. For more information about overcoming back pain, contact us.
Source: https://www.spine-health.com/conditions/sciatica/what-you-need-know-about-sciatica
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Patient Success Spotlight
DISCOVER HOW TO LIVE PAIN-FREE At Partners In Physical Therapy, you will receive hands-on therapy treatments by our friendly, caring health experts during focused and individualized sessions. It’s time to go to Partners In Physical Therapy if: • You’re tired of living in pain • You want to feel better and move better • You have been in an auto accident or injured on the job • You want to prevent injury 1. Call and talk to your therapist 2. Discover why your pain has come back 3. Get your individualized recovery program
“I’ve experienced dramatic positive results!” “There are not enough stars to adequately express how incredible Freddie Ann and her team’s care and expertise are. I live in New York City and have seen three different physical therapists here, trying to get pain relief and my body function back after being a passenger in a rear-end crash. None of these New York therapists have been anywhere near as thorough, either in their assessments or treatment, as Freddie Ann has been. Nor have their assessments been accurate. Yet, Freddie Ann’s has been right on point. My later MRI confirmed it. Needless to say, I’ve received absolutely no relief and no improvement or change in my condition with those in New York. On the contrary, I’ve experienced dramatic positive results with Freddie Ann. Thus, I travel from New York to Louisiana to be treated by her. It’s worth the time and expense. Now, maybe you can understand that 5 stars just aren’t enough.” - B.C.
Relieve Back Pain In Minutes Try this movement if you are experiencing back pain.
Strengthens lower back
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BRIDGING While lying on your back, raise your buttocks off the floor/bed. Repeat 5 times.
If this exercise does not provide you relief/help, please consider an evaluation to see if we can identify the source of your pain.
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