Can PT Help Me?
Are you experiencing pain with your daily activities such as shopping or picking up your children or grandchildren? Do you have lower back, neck, or shoulder pain that has been bothering you during activities that you used to be able to do without pain? Listed below are some other common problems that PT can help:
Pain while standing and walking
Pain while reaching overhead
Pain while carrying your groceries
Trouble keeping your balance or falls at home
Pain while bending over to tie your shoes
Pain with recreational activity like golf or tennis
Dizziness or vertigo
Pain while running
Heel pain
Back pain
Pain while sitting at your computer
Pain while driving
Pain at work
Research shows that the sooner you start therapy after injury, the faster you’ll recover. Don’t let a small problem that can be fixed in a couple of visits turn into a bigger problem that will take several visits or even surgery to recover from.
An experienced physical therapist can help you not only decrease or eliminate your pain or dysfunction, but more importantly, identify underlying factors that may have led to the condition.
Here at Robbins Rehabilitation, we treat our patients with only highly trained, experienced physical therapists that not only treat your current symptoms but focus on a comprehensive program that will help prevent any recurrences, and increase your overall physical health. Many conditions present as one problem, such as knee or hip pain, but are in fact related to the pelvis and lower back. Similarly, neck and shoulder pain are often directly attributed to overall posture and “muscle imbalances.”
Other health-care facilities may focus on just the LOCATION of pain and not the SOURCE of pain, often treating their patients with only pain-control devices. On top of that, a majority of them employ physical therapist assistants who do the bulk of the treatments. All too often, we hear a story similar to this from our patients:
“I went to therapy in the past, but it didn’t help. Every time I went, I was seen by a different person, and I saw the physical therapist only once! All of my other treatments were with assistants or aids. Even then, most of the time I just did some exercises on my own in the corner of a huge clinic. They never even put their hands on me.”
We treat our patients with the latest Evidence-Based physical therapy procedures and have only physical therapists on staff to treat your condition. Please review the links below to read articles that back up or treatment philosophies.
http://aaompt.org/consumer/neck.cfm
http://aaompt.org/consumer/lowbackpain.cfm
Our goal is your goal; we want to help you get back to playing golf and playing with your kids or grandchildren, or just getting through your busy day without pain or limitation. We accomplish that by identifying and treating potential factors that may have preceded your current condition.
So when you ask yourself: “Can physical therapy help me?” The answer is: “Absolutely!” Even if you have had a failed experience elsewhere, here at Robbins Rehabilitation, we promise you a different, more effective style of treatment.
