23 Aug How Does Physical Therapy Promote Injury Prevention?
Our integrated physical therapy model combines physical therapy with fitness and health and wellness programs that are individualized for our clients. Our unique treatment model brings together medical doctors, nurse practitioners and manual therapists to evaluate your condition thoroughly. We work with you to provide a clear plan from where you are, to where you want to be. This unique, collaborative approach returns you to the activities you love and accelerates your healing more effectively than other treatments alone.
Physical Therapy: What Is It?
Many people have experienced physical therapy and many more will over the course of their lifetime. Therapy itself is defined as a treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder. Physical therapy is therefore the practice of using physical movements and methods to relieve or heal a disorder. Physical therapists themselves are the people that train for years to help injured or ill people rehabilitate their bodies. Most must receive a doctoral or professional degree requiring countless hours of training in the best practices for natural healing.
Unlike other professions that deal with healthcare, physical therapy seeks to utilize natural, non-invasive methods to help boost the body’s natural rehabilitative abilities. This therapy seeks to provide patients with measures to become whole once more without surgical procedures that require weeks and months of recovery. Physical therapy comprises many different types of treatments and therapies catered to the needs of the individual, whether they are an athlete, senior citizen, recovering from surgery or have diseases and conditions that require help. There is generally a natural method of healing or relief for almost anything you can think of.
Chronic Pain and Treatments
One of the main reasons patients seek out physical therapy is to help their chronic pain. According to some resources, physical therapy is one of the best options patients have for treating their long-term pain or an injury. Instead of cutting or removing like surgery does, therapy seeks to build muscle and tissues to regenerate the part of the body that is injured or hurting. The National Center for Health Statistics reports that 76.2 million Americans suffer from pain that lasts longer than 24 hours. That equates to about 1 in 4 Americans in pain.
Physical therapy seeks to relieve pain and symptoms with treatments such as strengthening exercises, stretching, pain-relief exercises, low-impact aerobic training, electrostimulation and more. In many facilities, there are special training machines that patients with severe joint or pain problems can use to rehabilitate their bodies without making their condition worse. One such machine is a vibration machine used in vibration therapy. We have many physical therapy treatments that have helped our patients feel great, recover better and get back to normal life quicker.
Your Options
When it comes to therapy, we offer services such as the following:
- Chiropractic Care – This treatment focuses on the body’s muscular, nervous and skeletal systems and gentle manipulations to restore whole-body wellness. We restore natural alignment to the spine if the spine, discs and nerves around them have been misaligned or compressed.
- Dry Needle Therapy – This is the practice of inserting and manipulating needles into the muscle to relieve pain. This is similar to acupuncture and seeks to reduce inflammation and built-up pressure in the body.
- Vibration Exercises – A form of rehabilitation that uses a machine to send vibrations through the body. This causes the muscles to relax and contract dozens of times per second, working the muscles and helping them to regenerate and heal. Vibration can be used for people without ailments to help keep muscles strong and in shape, which helps prevent injuries.
- Stem Cell Therapy – Stem cells are present in every body and naturally transform into whatever cell the body needs when an injury occurs. We use stem cells to provide patients with an extra dose of cells that can help regenerate tissues and heal wounds quicker than the body can do on its own.
- Neuropathy Treatment – Neuropathy involves defects or damage within the peripheral nerve system. Neuropathy treatment seeks to help relieve pressure on compressed nerves or help relieve symptoms of nerve damage.
- Trigger-Point Therapy – Trigger points are areas of built-up tension in the body. We have massage therapy, electrostimulation, myotherapy and more that seeks to find areas of tension and relieve them so that injuries or worse problems do not occur and so that pain goes away.
- Anti-Inflammatory Joint Injections – Joint injections provide localized pain relief that can help restore some range-of-motion as patients use other therapy treatments.
Injury Prevention
There are so many options when it comes to physical therapy treatments! Not only can physical therapy help the body rehabilitate itself once more, but it can help patients prevent further injuries or injuries in the first place. We have patients that utilize our exercises for strength building and training the body. Athletes can use services such as vibration exercises to build muscle and keep their muscles strong.
Investing in physical therapy services before an injury occurs, can help patients keep their muscles strong, their bodies properly aligned and can help them lower their risk of injuries in the future. When patients choose physical therapy to heal ailments and injuries they already have, they help the body regenerate and grow stronger. This can prevent an injury from becoming worse. Many studies have shown that receiving help from a professional for healing (such as investing in physical rehabilitation services) can help patients heal quicker and faster than they otherwise could on their own.
Learn More
Many of our patients have common ailments and conditions that we treat at our facility. When it comes to the body, countless things can go wrong. However, no matter the ailment or injury, there are always ways to help relieve pain, symptoms, and improve your way of life. If you would like to know more about our physical therapy services and if one of them can benefit you, simply call our Mile High Spine & Pain Center today at (720) 507-0080!