9 Benefits of Physical Therapy
Why Are You Waiting for Your Pain To Worsen Before Seeking Treatment?
1. Reduce or eliminate pain. Therapeutic exercises and manual therapy techniques help relieve pain and restore muscle and joint function to reduce pain. Such therapies can also prevent pain from returning. 2. Avoid surgery. If physical therapy helps you eliminate pain or heal from an injury, surgery may not be needed. And even if surgery is required, you may benefit from pre-surgery physical therapy. If you are going into a surgery stronger and in better shape, you will recover faster afterwards in many cases. Also, by avoiding surgery, health care costs are reduced. 3. Maximize your movement. If you’re having trouble standing, walking or moving—no matter your age—physical therapy can help restore your ability to move. 4. Recover from a stroke. It’s common to lose some degree of function and movement after stroke. Physical therapy helps strengthen weakened parts of the body and improve gait and balance.
5. Recover from or prevent a sports injury. Physical therapists understand how different sports can increase your risk for specific types of injuries. They can design appropriate recovery or prevention exercise programs for you to ensure a safe return to your sport. 6. Improve your balance and prevent falls. If you’re at high risk for falls, therapists will provide exercises that safely and carefully challenge your balance as a way to mimic real-life situations. When the balance problem is caused by a problem in one’s vestibular system, physical therapists can perform specific maneuvers that can quickly restore proper vestibular functioning, and reduce and eliminate symptoms of dizziness or vertigo. 7. Manage age-related issues. As individuals age, they may develop arthritis or osteoporosis or need a joint replacement. Physical therapists are experts in helping patients recover from joint replacement, and manage arthritic or osteoporotic conditions.
8. Participate in your recovery. Patients and therapists work hand in hand to design individualized programs that best fits your goals and challenges. 9. Your physical therapist is focused on getting you back to the things you enjoy.
- Jeff Gilliam PT, PhD, OCS
Erika Caltagirone, PTA Karen Ngai, Rehab Tech
Kingsley Fong, L. Ac, Dipl. Ac
Cristina Barthel, PT, DPT
Dr. Robert Chickara Chiropractor, Clinic Director
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