Knees not doing what they used to? Frozen Shoulder? Sports Injury? Most medical healthcare teams will advise you to treat these issues with physical therapy.
So now you’re going to see a physical therapist, ready to work out and do the exercises that’ll help restore bodily functions and/or ease the pain. First, however, there are a few questions you’ll need to be prepared to answer. Your PT will most likely want to much more than where the pain is coming from. The main questions most of them usually ask are?
What limitations are
Before your physical therapist can develop a treatment plan for you, they need to know how the pain stops you from carrying out activities. A Massachusetts General Hospital-based physical therapist, David Nolan, DPT, says that it’s essential to understand the issue affecting the patient’s quality of life so that what they do means something to them. He claimed that they don’t care about the range of motion of the body parts in question. Instead, they care about whether you can use that particular body part to do your day-to-day activities.
What your goals are
Your physical therapist will want to know what goals you have in mind. Nolan says that there might be specific things they’ll need to make you do to achieve some of the goals you may have set for yourself. For instance, if you can’t play tennis because of your knee injury, you’ll need to focus more on just reducing the pain. You’ll most likely need to stretch and strengthen your hamstrings, quadriceps, and gluteal muscles as well.
Your commitment to the plan
The success you’re looking for will ultimately depend on how willing you are to stick to the treatment plans set by your physical therapist. Nolan says that you can’t only be working just when you are in the facility for you to have lasting effects. However, that doesn’t mean you need to do the work until you die. Instead, you’ll need to make a few lifestyle changes so that the paint doesn’t come back.
