3 Reasons You Should Consider Seeing a Physical Therapist This Year

Maintain a healthy diet, exercise, and don’t drink or smoke – if you do these things, you’ve got a pretty good chance of living a long, healthy life. However, a longer life comes at the cost of more wear and tear on your body, the majority of which is normal. Intermittent pain that resolves on its own is nothing to be alarmed about, especially if you’re getting on in years. It’s what clinicians commonly refer to as “normal abnormal” – which, in other words, means “you’re alive, which is great!”

However, pain that refuses to go away and hinders your ability to move freely is a cue for worry. But can anything be done to avoid this type of pain? Yes, there is. Just like your car, your body also requires “preventive maintenance” in order to work optimally and avoid any major problems on the line. So, without further ado, here are three reasons why should consider seeing a physical therapist this year, even if you’re not injured.

You Want to Enhance Your Athletic Performance

Whether you’re a star player of your college football team, or a middle-aged guy who just likes shooting hoops with his friends on the weekend, you’re an athlete in our book. Maybe your job is to deliver packages. If you think that delivering packages doesn’t involve athletic ability, just consider how much heavier those boxes felt when you first started this job. Yes, in one way or another all of us are athletes.

However, is your body getting everything it needs for optimal movement? Is everything that moves moving as well as it should? Here is where physical therapy comes in – it has the power to keep your body in pitch perfect condition, always ready for the rigors of your daily routine.

You Want to Avoid Injuries

Although not every bump or bruise requires medical care, it’s important to understand how your body works, and get answers when minor pains turn into major ones and start hindering normal movement. Quite often, people change the way they move in compensation for a previous injury or in fear of re-injury. These changes in natural movement can actually lead to more persistent pain.

The services of a physical therapist can be extremely useful in such cases as they know exactly when and where to apply stress on the body to expedite the healing process.

You Want to Save Time and Money

Surgery can be quite costly and often requires a frustratingly large amount of recovery time. However, what if we told you that there’s mounting clinical evidence which suggests that, in some cases, physical therapy can be as effective at treating chronic back, neck, shoulder, and hip pain as many surgical procedures? In fact, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that found physical therapy to be as effective as surgery for treating meniscal tears and knee osteoarthritis.

Even if surgery is the only option on the table, physical therapy can speed up the healing process and get you back to performing your favorite activities in no time.

Texas-Star Rehab Services got some of the best physical therapist Southwest Houston and rehabilitation clinics. We use the combination of the latest, state-of-the-art technology and innovative treatment methods to help patients overcome chronic pain and musculoskeletal disorders. Get in touch with us today for more information on our services or to make an appointment.