What to Expect Immediately After and Long Term If you suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) that requires significant medical treatment and perhaps even rehabilitation or physical therapy, you may be concerned about the short-term and long-term effects of your injury. What challenges can you expect … [Read more...]
How Long Should You Receive Physical Therapy?
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...]
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...]