Physical Therapy Can Help Relieve Joint Pain
Improve Your Mobility and Get Moving Again
Achy joints can be difficult to live with, and unfortunately, many people experience this type of joint pain.
Let’s face it, your joints just aren’t treating you the way they used to. You might be dealing with the aftermath of an injury that has made it hard for you to get around the way you’re used to. Or maybe you’re just suffering from age-related arthritis, and everything is starting to hurt!
One thing is for sure, taking excessive amounts of over-the-counter painkillers and sitting around all day definitely isn’t doing you any favors.
If you want to start enjoying your life again without being limited by aches and pains in your joints, it’s time to get serious about looking for a natural solution: physical therapy – athletic therapy, chiropractic therapy, or physiotherapy.
What does physical therapy have to offer?
There are so many ways to develop joint aches and pains; the list is never-ending! Thankfully, there are also many different kinds of physical therapy that can address these symptoms, extend your range of motion, and ease your pain.
Our therapists will start by evaluating your condition carefully, examining your overall health and physical activities, as well as how often you experience your symptoms. Proper examination of the joint and of your ability to move it can show your therapist exactly what the underlying problem is, and help them create a more customized treatment for you.
Certain types of physical therapy may be recommended to you. Here are a few:
- Exercise: Did you know that injured muscles and connective tissues are capable of healing and returning to their previous length and range of motion? It’s possible with the help of an exercise program. Exercises are also excellent for preventing arthritic joints from becoming more stiff over time. Gradual strengthening workouts and/or cardio exercises on a bicycle or treadmill may be suggestions our therapists propose to you.
- Joint mobilization techniques: Targeted techniques that can help you improve your joint mobility, especially in your foot or ankle joints are important to joint health. You might also benefit from techniques that work to loosen and break up internal scar tissue, which can form over old injuries and cause chronic soreness and stiffness.
- Hot or Cold Modalities: Your physiotherapist may recommend one of these to you to reduce pain and/or inflammation.
- Hydrotherapy: Hydrotherapy can supply beneficial exercise for people who are unable to bear all of their weight on their joints. Learning to do gentle exercises in the water allows the water to support part of your body weight. This is excellent therapy because it will allow you to move those joints and rebuild the corresponding joint tissues.
Why am I experiencing joint pain?
Can you believe that it’s possible to develop soft tissue pain from doing absolutely nothing? It’s strange but true.
Take, for example, this condition called adhesive capsulitis, otherwise known as “frozen shoulder.” If you’ve had to wear a sling for a while, this is an uncomfortable condition you could end up having that can render your shoulder useless for quite some time.
Osteoarthritis, more commonly known as arthritis, is the most frequent condition that causes pain and stiffness. This condition can affect anyone at any age, but is most often found in older patients and stems from age-related deterioration of the cartilage between the bones in a joint.
Osteoarthritis isn’t the only one to look out for though. Rheumatoid arthritis is another painful, damaging joint condition caused by autoimmune issues.
Ready to get started?
Achy and painful joints can be a thing of the past with physical therapy!
Kiss your days of dealing with joint pain goodbye. You don’t have to live this way! With the help of physiotherapy – athletic therapy, chiropractic therapy, or physiotherapy – your life can drastically improve.
So what are you waiting for? Contact Leaps and Bounds Rehabilitation today to set up your own consultation with one of our licensed therapists.
They’re eager to meet with you and start getting you back on the road to recovery.