Why Physical Therapy is the Best Option for Me?

How Physical Therapy Seeks to Empower Clients to treat and prevent injury

Physical Therapy is practical

• Physical Therapy reduces your pain and Solves the problem! Thus preventing future pain!
  • Physical Therapy is not just a temporary fix! Instead it solves the root cause of the problem: the fact that your body simply cannot handle the load placed upon it
  • When muscles strengthens from Physical Therapy techniques, injuries are less likely to reoccur
  • Example: Strengthening your core will help your back pain that resulted from bending down to pick up your child. Therefore, this will help you to continue to lift and support them as they get older and bigger without continuously getting injured.
• It Improves mechanics
  • Physical Therapy seeks to help you with a current injury you have. Therefore, once you learn these underlying principles, it can also help you with preventing or treating future injuries.
  • Physical Therapy improves awareness of the muscles and joints responsible for certain movements. It teach why a particular pain occurs and how to prevent or treat that pain.
  • It helps you learn HOW to do the critical tasks and actions you need to do each way without causing injury
  • Example: A common cause of neck pain is holding your head is too far forward. This can cause me particular pain while driving long distances. Therefore, I make a point to bring my head back against the headrest during long drives, thus reducing my neck pain.

Physical Therapy harnesses your body’s natural mechanisms of healing and preventing injury

The body consists of bigger and smaller muscles. The bigger muscles perform more powerful movements. The smaller muscles protect the joints (bone-to-bone connections). Injuries often occur when these muscles are unable to do what is necessary to complete a given task. For example, a bigger muscle seeks to do a task more than its used to (carrying a piano when normally it only carries small items). Additionally, if the smaller muscles are not cued to protect a joint frequently enough through strength training, they often fail to do so when necessary and the joint is injured.

The Goal is Independence and Maintenance

• Many healthcare services and other businesses seek to give you a service that you need to repeat indefinitely. They convince you that your body cannot solve this problem, without their services. Physical Therapy, however, uses your body’s natural mechanisms of injury treatment: the bones and muscles God gave it to heal your symptoms! Good PT should come with the goal of DISCHARGE and INDEPENDENCE
• Discharging from Physical Therapy doesn’t always mean that you are completely healed. Instead, it means that you now have learned the skills needed to treat this injury. Therefore, if it flares up again you know how to improve it. And ideally, you have strengthened the muscles to a point where there is no longer a risk of future injury or pain.
• Discharge means finding a way to fit Physical Therapy techniques into your regular routine. This depends on each persons needs and preferences and I can guide you on tailoring this to meet your goals.

Physical Therapy is Empowering and Educational

Physical therapy teaches you about something you use EVERY SINGLE DAY, really almost EVERY MOMENT. It teaches you how your body moves and accomplishes task. Therefore, you gain techniques that will help you as you continue to seek to do the daily things you need to get done without injury. This will help you serve your needs and those whom you love better.

For more information on the benefits and purpose of Physical Therapy check out my post: What is Physical Therapy?