7 Things You Didn't Know About Physical Therapy

1. 7 Things You Didn't Know About Physical Therapy Generally recovering from a serious injury, illness or surgery takes a long time to heal even after an extended stay in the hospital. People need plenty of rest, a nutritious diet, a person to take care of the patient need. This is because our body doesn’t function to its fullest and physical therapy can help a patient with it. There are a lot of misconceptions about physical therapy, its benefits, and its limitations. This is because people don’t know much about it. So here are seven things you probably don’t know about physical therapy: 1. Physical therapists are experienced, skilled and highly educated People often don’t know the work to be done to become a physical therapist. They need to study a lot, train for a long time after years of rigorous education. A physical therapist in Queens NY usually obtains a bachelor’s degree in physiotherapy, then completes their doctorate and finally meets the requirement of our state’s licensing board. 2. Physical therapy has several classifications Physical therapy has many subparts in it, areas of expertise within it. So, a physical therapist can be specialized in a specific ailment might not be an expert in another. He still might be able to operate to a basic level competently but not beyond it. 3. Physical therapy can also treat many medical conditions Physical therapy is usually used to help the patient recover from injury, illness or surgery but here at physical therapy Glendale NY, we also help patients with medical conditions such as: • Cerebral Palsy • Lymphedema • Parkinson’s Disease • Huntington’s Disease • Muscular Dystrophy • Diabetes • Pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction • Osteoarthritis • Multiple Sclerosis • Vertigo • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) 4. Patients of all ages can be better from physical therapy This is a very common misconception; people often think that physical therapy can only make healthy adults recover from their conditions. While it doesn’t work or works very slowly and ineffectively for people of other age groups. But physical therapy in Queens NY works for all age group, physical therapist works with infants to senior citizens all the time, and they recover from their condition.

2. 5. Physical therapy is not supposed to be painful Trying to make your body function back to normal after an injury or surgery is a long and gradual process. Some exercise may be discomforting but if you feel then something is not right. 6. Physical therapists are not masseuses Physical therapist trains for months before working on a patient and people don’t train for massages. Secondly, massage helps the person to relax and relieve some stress. Additionally, the techniques involved in physical therapy are different from massage. 7. Patients need to engage outside the clinic also Having a one-on-one session with a physical therapist is not enough; patients’ needs to engage in such exercises even at home and also follow the instructions very carefully and should have a desire to heal on its own. All these factors are a part of at-home program Physical therapy Glendale NY which is obviously less strenuous than treatments within the clinic. This also helps recover the patients quickly. ProMet Physical Therapy Glendale NY 71-19 80th Street, Suite 8210, Glendale, NY 11385 Phone: (718) 554-6610 Fax: (718) 360-4908 ----------------------- ProMet Physical Therapy in Kew Gardens 123-08 Metropolitan Avenue, Kew Gardens, NY 11415 Phone: (718) 880-2385 Fax: (718) 880-2386 Email: info@prometpt.com