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 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.
Choose a progressive program that fits your goals and challenges you to move forward without causing any unnecessary flare-ups.
rehab from your pain or injury.
Determine your start point and move forward, with the assistance of a trained physical therapist.
Set realistic goals that you can meet, such as your healing timeline.
Maintain a rehabilitation diary, and mark when you have met a goal or made significant progress in your physical therapy recovery process.
manage it effectively.
give you feedback. You can improve your movement patterns, and change the approaches you are taking during your rehab process.
Choose an environment where you can solely concentrate on your recovery and healing process.
control, and strength.
learn what forms of treatment and exercise work; you will learn as you go.
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:
Pain relief
Building strength
Improvement in motion and mobility
Shortened recovery time after your disease, injury, surgical procedure, or medical condition
Enhancing overall fitness and performance
Promoting proper healing
Improvement with flexibility, movement, and balance
Help and education that pertain to obtaining your mobility goals
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 manage your disability.
On your road to choose a physical therapist that will examine your situation, evaluate it, and create an effective recovery plan that suits your specific needs.
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About the Author
Dr. Lev Kalika is a world-recognized expert in musculoskeletal ultrasonography, with 20+ years of clinical experience in advanced rehabilitative medicine. In addition to operating his clinical practice in Manhattan, he regularly publishes peer-reviewed research on ultrasound-guided therapies and procedures.
Dr. Kalika is an esteemed member of the International Society for Medical Shockwave Treatment ((SMST), and the only clinician in New York certified by the ISMST to perform extracorporeal shockwave therapy. He is also an active member of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), and has developed his own unique approach to dynamic functional and fascial ultrasonography.
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
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