HELPING ARTHRITIS PAIN Health & Wellness The Newsletter About Your Health And Caring For Your Body
Inside: • It’s Time To Live Life Without Arthritis Pain
• Healthy Recipe
• Exercise Essentials
• Patient Success Spotlight
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Tests were done to measure how well the people were doing compared to their initial visit, 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 1 year later. The results were very impressive showing the patients who had hands-on physical therapy, combined with specific exercises had significant improvements in their pain, mobility and function. By 8 weeks, patients were able to walk further and faster with much less or completely resolved pain.
mobility. Other benefits included less need for surgery with only 5% of patients in the treatment group having undergone surgery as compared to 20% with the placebo group. In general, if you are suffering from osteoarthritis, especialy of the back, hip or knee, physical therapy decreases the pain and stiffness of osteoarthritis and may delay or prevent the need for more invasive treatments, like injections or surgery. Isn’t it time you did something about your arthritis and pains? Call us today at Fleming Physical Therapy so we can make a positive difference in your life. Look inside to learn more about our programs and say good-bye to your aches, pains and joint stiffness.
ROBERT FLEMING PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Owner
Their joint stiffness, aches and mobility had improved by 55% compared to the placebo group who had no treatment. At one year, patients in the treatment group still were doing great in terms of less pain and more
Annals of InternalMedicine: February 1, 2000 vol. 132 no. 3 173-181.GailD.Deyle,MPT;Nancy E.Henderson,PhD,MPT; Robert L.Matekel,MPT;MichaelG.Ryder,MPT;MatthewB.Garber,MPT; andStephenC.Allison,PhD,MPT,ECS
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