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Physical Therapy

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Back Pain

Back pain can be the result of any number of degenerative diseases or disorders of the cervical and lumbar spine. The specialists at SportsMed painstakingly evaluate each patient to determine the root cause and the most conservative possible course of treatment. Your physician may prescribe Physical Therapy to assist in the recovery from surgery or perhaps as a first course of treatment to determine if surgery might be avoided altogether.

By using a series of back exercises, the Physical Therapist's goal is to decrease a patient's back pain, increase function, and provide the patient with a maintenance program to help prevent further recurrences. There are many different forms of physical therapy. Your therapist may focus on decreasing pain with passive physical therapy (modalities, therapies done to the patient such as heat/ice packs, TENS units, Iontophoresis, Ultrasound). Active physical therapy (exercise) is also necessary to rehabilitate the spine. Generally, a patient’s back exercise program should encompass a combination of stretching for back pain exercise, strengthening for back pain exercise, and low-impact aerobic conditioning,