How Do You Decide When to Stop? Treating chronic pain or other conditions with physical therapy is fundamentally different from using pharmaceutical products or performing surgery. Unlike medication, physical therapy seeks to identify and remedy the body's natural healing mechanisms. Unlike … [Read more...]
Tips for Getting the Most Out of a Physical Therapy Regimen
Strategies for Maximizing Your Recovery from Injury When you've suffered any type of injury, it's common to have a regimen of physical therapy prescribed, so you can return to the same level of activity and functionality you had before the injury. In fact, in many instances, you even may find … [Read more...]
Using Physical Therapy to Treat Pain
PT as a Pain Management Tool When you're experiencing chronic or regular pain, just the thought of moving can make you wince. You may think that staying immobile, with ice or a heating pad and an anti-inflammatory, is the best strategy for relief. To the contrary, though, engaging in physical … [Read more...]
Rehab and Physical Therapy—The Same or Different?
Making Certain You Get the Right Treatment Often, when you have suffered physical injury, you'll find both physical therapy and rehabilitation ("rehab") among the treatment options. It's not uncommon for the terms to actually get used interchangeably. Are they the same thing? If not, how do they … [Read more...]
Differences Between Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Vocational Therapy
If you’re suffering from a painful or debilitating injury, you want the best care and treatment plan so you can get back to your career and your life as soon as possible. Physical therapy, occupational therapy, and vocational therapy are all clinically proven methods of treatment for a multitude of … [Read more...]
