Benefits of Physical Therapy

- by: American Physical Therapy Association

Physical therapists treat people of all ages and abilities. Here are some ways a physical therapist can help you. 

 

Maximize Your Movement

Pain-free movement is crucial to your quality of life, your ability to earn a living, and your independence. Physical therapists are movement experts who can identify, diagnose, and treat movement problems.

 

Participate In Your Recovery

Physical therapists work collaboratively with their patients and clients. Treatment plans are designed for each person’s individual goals, challenges, and needs.

 

Avoid Opioids

Opioid risks include depression, overdose, and addiction, plus withdrawal symptoms when stopping use. In some situations, dosed appropriately, prescription opioids are an appropriate part of medical treatment. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care providers to reduce the use of opioids in favor of safe alternatives like physical therapy for most long-term pain.

 

Avoid Surgery

Before you undergo expensive or invasive surgery, try physical therapy. For some conditions, including meniscal tears and knee osteoarthritis, rotator cuff tears, spinal stenosis, and degenerative disk disease, treatment by a physical therapist has been found to be as effective as surgery.

 

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Keep Your Body Moving

Keep it Moving!

It is very important for a human body to keep moving to maintain lasting agility. Its not just about going to the gym everyday. You can do it in and outside your house, or while walking your dog and even while preparing meals. 

Ya-Ling Liou said movement is an important part of mitigating everyday pain and keeping the body agile. We all have our own path and we need to make peace with it. Once we do, we will find balance in our body and mind. Maybe we’ll only get a glimpse of balance, but striving for it is what life is all about. Any seasoned athlete will tell you that if you fail, fall or miss the mark, you get up, dust yourself off and try it again. That’s the only way to move forward, so you might as well do it armed with good information. 

PhysioCall Gladstone offers not just treatments, we also offer coaching on how you can keep your body healthy. They say "one small thing is better than nothing". You can start small, few routines, and that's still better than not exercising at all.

Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands or SAID is being used for years now when it comes to rehabilitation and sports training. It is very direct as it sounds. It is similar to the concept "USE IT or LOSE IT" which is scientifically proven theory that the human body responds to any stressors given to it.

 

Your body movement connects to your brain. Our body's function is to move and like vehicle engines that is left unused our body and brain will get used to it and by the time you want to use it, it will have problems. Our brain is not used of not receiving signals from our body anymore. It is vital that we keep the communication between our body and brain.

I often hear friends say how they struggle getting back to regular exercise after a lull in their routine. They feel that they've lost any gains they previously made. That sense of regression happens more quickly as we age -- not because we're necessarily more decrepit, but because our wiring is more easily turned off (as described above). It's much easier to wake up the neural connections than to build muscles mass from scratch, so don't lose heart when you fall out of your routine. Be gentle with yourself and know that when you get back to your exercise routine, you'll still have a measure of the foundation you built. You'll just need to wake it up.

You may experience a little pain now, but its nothing comparable to when your body is too late to do all the exercise and damaged.

PhysioCall Gladstone is here to help guide you all the way. Whether as a beginner, recovering from injuries or surgeries, getting back after you've stop doing it and a lot more reasons why each one needed to stop. 

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Things To Know About Knee Pain

 

Be informed.

Knee pain is the most common musculoskeletal complaint that brings people to their doctor according to WebMD. With today's increasingly active society, the number of knee problems is increasing. Knee pain has a wide variety of specific causes and treatments. (in Chinese medicine) it is an alternative therapeutic method that has been popular in which heated glass cups are applied to the skin along the meridians of the body, creating suction as a way of stimulating the flow of energy and has a lot of good benefits. The knee relies on a number of structures including bones, ligaments, tendons, and cartilage.

Being active is one of the best things you can do for your joints and the rest of your body. But injuries can happen, and they often involve the knees.

 

Some of the most common problems are sprained ligaments, meniscus tears, tendinitis, and runner's knee. If you have an old knee injury that wasn’t properly treated, it may flare up now and then or hurt all the time.

 

Several other things can also cause knee pain, such as:

• Bursitis
• Dislocated kneecap
• IT (iliotibial) band syndrome
• Meniscal tear
• Osgood-Schlatter disease
• Osteoarthritis
• Patellar tendinitis
• Patellofemoral pain syndrome

What Does a Knee Injury Feel Like?
Obviously, it hurts! But the type of pain and where you feel it can vary, depending on what the problem is. You may have:

• Pain, usually when you bend or straighten the knee (including when you go down stairs)
• Swelling
• Trouble putting weight on the knee
• Problems moving your knee
• Knee buckling or "locking"

If you have these symptoms, visit PhysioCall Gladstone right away and be treated. You may call 0749620411 for reservations or you may book online @ https://www.physiocall.com.au/p/booknow

 

Home Care for Knee Pain

Please note: Inflammation is the body's physiologic response to an injury. In treating many types of knee pain, a common goal is to break the inflammatory cycle. The inflammatory cycle starts with an injury. After an injury, substances that cause inflammation invade the knee to assist in healing. However, if the injury and subsequent inflammation is not resolved, inflammation can become a chronic issue, leading to further inflammation and additional injury. This cycle of inflammation leads to continued or progressive knee pain. The cycle can be broken by controlling the substances that cause inflammation, and by limiting further injury to tissue.

If you are away or cant go to PhysioCall Gladstone yet, there are common home care techniques for knee pain that control inflammation and help to break the inflammatory cycle, these are protection, rest, ice, compression, and elevation. This regimen is summarized by the memory device PRICE.

 

What will happen if you dont treat Knee Pain right away?

For the first 48 to 72 hours after a knee injury, use a cold pack to ease swelling and numb the pain. A plastic bag of ice or frozen peas works well. Use it for 15 to 20 minutes three or four times a day. Wrap your ice pack in a towel to be kind to your skin. After that, you can heat things up with a warm bath, heating pad, or warm towel for 15 to 20 minutes, three or four times a day.

 

Your knee pain can get worse if you will not have it treated as soon as possible. Visit PhysioCall Gladstone right away. Do not wait for the time that you will need injections, medications or surgeries. A physio treatment is so much affordable than that of medications especially if it already involves lifetime medications or surgery that costs thousands of dollars.

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