October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month as well as National Physical Therapy Month. The American Physical Therapy Association chose this past October to address the opioid crisis: “When it comes to pain and prescribing opioids, the desire for a quick fix not only can be counterproductive, it also can be dangerous. Often when individuals experience pain, nonopioid options are safer, more effective, and longer lasting. Incorporating such options as standards of practice should be a central tenet in addressing the opioid crisis. The treatment of pain, particularly chronic pain, often requires an integrated, multidisciplinary approach due to the many variables that may contribute to a patient’s perception of pain and response to treatment. The [growing] opioid epidemic in the United States is a complex problem that will be solved only through multidisciplinary collaboration, and that individuals with chronic pain must be National Physical Therapy Month
offered interventions that not only control pain but also address the causes of pain. The CDC, NQF, and other major health agencies and organizations all have affirmed that nonpharmacological and nonopioid therapy can be effective in managing chronic pain. It’s time for the health care system to look beyond opioids to options such as physical therapist interventions that treat pain and combat chronic pain by addressing its source(s). Physical therapy is a dynamic profession with an established theoretical and scientific basis for therapeutic interventions capable of restoring, maintaining, and promoting optimal physical function. Physical therapists work both independently and as members of multidisciplinary health care teams to enhance the health, well- being, and quality of life of their patients, who present with a wide range of conditions including those that commonly cause pain.”
Sources:http://www.apta.org/NPTM/
Time Is Running Out! Use Your Health Benefits Before 2018 Ends!
There’s only two months left to take advantage of your health benefits! Patients with family plans or those who have had major surgeries or have a chronic illness are especially likely to have a $0 balance remaining on their out-of-pocket expenses. If you’ve met your annual deductible, your Physical Therapy appointments may not cost you anything. If you are close to or have met your insurance deductible for the year, then now is the time to come in for physical therapy! Are you feeling aches and pains? Need to work on your core? Have you undergone surgery recently? Let us help you get a head start for 2019. Call us today at 856.579.7201. We’ll guide you to affordable treatments that will place you one step closer to pain relief.
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