What Good Does It Do?
After you’ve had orthopaedic surgery or injury, the last thing you feel like doing is exercising and moving that painful part of your body. You may be worried about making things worse. But there are a lot of reasons why you need to continue – physical therapy helps in the long run.
Reduce or Eliminate Pain
Physical therapy helps reduce the amount of pain your injured body part causes. This decreases the need for drugs to manage pain and improves your quality of life.
Avoid Surgery
Physical therapy can delay or remove entirely the need for surgery to correct orthopedic injuries. There are many kinds of injuries for which physical therapy is just as effective as surgery.
Improve Your Mobility and Range of Motion
Physical therapy can make it so that you are able to move more easily, and with wider or more sure motions. You will be able to walk easily, put away dishes, garden, and other daily activities with more ease and comfort. It improves your flexibility and ability to make wider movements.
Avoid Future Injury
You can get in the habit of favoring a painful or injured body part; this causes balance problems and can make you more likely to trip or fall, which can harm you. Imbalanced or improper movements cause injuries over time or make you more likely to harm yourself by accident. Physical therapy helps you learn safe movement and decreases the chance of additional injury.
Improve Your Strength
Physical therapy helps you regain and improve your strength following an injury and a period of not using your body much or strongly. It builds up strength in the muscles and joints around an injury or surgical site.
Reduce Risk of Blood Clots
Physical therapy improves your circulation and keeps blood from pooling, stagnant. This decreases the risk of blood clots in or around an injury or surgical site.
Faster Healing and Recovery
Physical therapy improves your healing and recovery after a surgery or injury so that you are able to return to your normal life more quickly and with fewer restrictions.
If you are suffering, contact your HROSM orthopaedic specialist at (757) 873-1554 for further steps to take to address your issues. Our providers can help you find relief.
