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#Choose PT

11/30/2016

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If you are a chronic pain sufferer, physical therapy may be the only solution that will help you in the long run. Opioids may offer you a temporary fix but over time can become an addiction. Physical therapy will help to strengthen your joints and muscles. The strengthening of the weakened joints will help to alleviate any further pain or treat any other condition.

To avoid opioid addiction, #Choose PT for safer pain management. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the sales of prescription opioids have quadrupled in the United States even though there have not been an reported change in the amount of pain.

Five guidelines of when to choose physical therapy over opioids are when;
  1. The risk of taking the prescription outweighs the rewards.- This includes when there are potential side effects including depression and addiction and there are no proven long term benefits.
  2. Patients want to cure the pain rather than temporarily hide it.- Opioids will temporarily reduce the pain sensation but will not improve your long term mobility.
  3. If your pain is related to lower back, hip or knee osteoarthritis, or fibromyalgia.- For these conditions it is reported that only exercise as a part of a physical therapy plan will benefit.
  4. If the pain lasts more than 90 days.-  After 90 days, pain is considered chronic and opioids can no longer treat. Non opioid treatments are preferred for chronic pain.
  5. Opioids are prescribed for pain- In situations where opioids are prescribed, it is recommended patients take the lowests recommended dosage. They are also to be  combined with non-opioid therapies, like physical therapy.

At Physical Therapy Experience in Smithtown and Oceanside we treat the highest level of pain and we are urging patients to #Choose PT over any other forms of treatment. Through personalized care and treatments from our highly specialized therapist you will be able to find a pain management solution and eliminate overall symptoms.

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Patrick Sotherland link
12/29/2016 05:24:07 am

No one wants to live in pain. But no one should put their health at risk in an effort to be pain free.

Since 1999, Americans have increasingly been prescribed opioids—painkillers like Vicodin, OxyContin, Opana, and methodone, and combination drugs like Percocet.

In some situations, dosed appropriately, prescription opioids are an appropriate part of medical treatment. However, opioid risks include depression, overdose, and addiction, plus withdrawal symptoms when stopping use. And people addicted to prescription opioids are 40 times more likely to become addicted to heroin.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care providers to reduce the use of opioids in favor of safe alternatives like physical therapy.

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