Physical therapy rehabilitation is a necessary part of the recovery process. Regardless if you have suffered from a chronic accident, sports injury, or suffer from pain due to an operation or medical procedure, rehabilitation will be an important step to reducing any pain that you may feel. Physical therapy treatment is also necessary when health problems cause you to struggle with moving around, or completing everyday task
Tips for Effective Rehab
When you suffer from a sports injury, medical procedure, or chronic soreness, you should use the tips below (in no particular order) to help ensure that your rehabilitation process is a success.
Benefits of Rehabilitation
When you successfully use the tips above to treat your medical condition, you will experience a variety of benefits. Some of the most common benefits associated with rehabilitation include:
When choosing a rehabilitation program, you should choose the program that suits your needs and goals the best. An experienced physical therapist is trained in the movement and function of the human body. Her primary focus will be to help you improve and regain your normal body function and mobility; your physical therapist should also work to help reduce or relieve any chronic soreness that you have. If you have developed a reliance on prescription medication, your physical therapy treatment should help you eliminate that dependence, and create ways to manage your disability.
On your road to recovery, it is important to choose a physical therapist that will examine your situation, evaluate it, and create an effective recovery plan that suits your specific needs.
and a faulty diagnosis can make treatment a total waste of time.
Failure to accurately diagnose a condition in its early stages can lead
to chronic problems and sometimes devastating results.
Diagnostic musculoskeletal sonography (MSUS) provides the perfect tool for the rehab practitioner. Yet many doctors and physical therapists have no experience with MSUS, are unaware of its advantages, and have no idea how to use it as a diagnostic tool.
Below is a prime example of how ultrasound can take the guesswork out of diagnosis.Successful Treatment
A bad physical therapy experience is one of the primary causes of unnecessary surgery.
We have equipped our clinic with the latest research-grade technology to arrive at objective and accurate diagnoses, and to objectively measure our patients’ progress.
Most importantly, we are the only facility in the US where structural medical diagnosis is reflected in functional treatment, and vice versa.
In this instance, an athlete was originally diagnosed with minor quadriceps muscle strain and was treated for four weeks, with unsatisfactory results. When he came to our clinic, the muscle was not healing, and the patients’ muscle tissue had already begun to atrophy.
Upon examination using MSUS, we discovered that he had a full muscle thickness tear that had been overlooked by his previous provider. To mitigate damage and promote healing, surgery should have been performed immediately after the injury occurred. Because of misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment, the patient now has permanent damage that cannot be corrected.
The most important advantage of Ultrasound over MRI imaging is its ability to zero in on the symptomatic region and obtain imaging, with active participation and feedback from the patient. Using dynamic MSUS, we can see what happens when patients contract their muscles, something that cannot be done with MRI. From a diagnostic perspective, this interaction is invaluable.
Dynamic ultrasonography examination demonstrating
the full thickness tear and already occurring muscle atrophy
due to misdiagnosis and not referring the patient
to proper diagnostic workup
Demonstration of how very small muscle defect is made and revealed
to be a complete tear with muscle contraction
under diagnostic sonography (not possible with MRI)
Complete tear of rectus femoris
with large hematoma (blood)
Separation of muscle ends due to tear elicited
on dynamic sonography examination
