subject: The Common Therapy For Back Pain [print this page] One of the most common and usual treatment regimen for back pain and other injuries is physical therapy. And, it is important that one should recognize that physical therapy involves a lot of other methods. Given this fact, it is very important that each patient will receive the right form of treatment in order to hasten the patients recovery and rehabilitation process.
Back pain and most other injuries have the same symptoms namely inflammation characterized by redness, heat, pain, swelling and sometimes loss of function, muscle spasm and decreased range of motion. Usually, treatment will always be geared to the reduction of the inflammation as well as muscle spasm. It is important that physical therapists know that proceeding to other forms of treatment to improve flexibility, muscle strength and range of motion will always result to the delay in the recovery process.
The reason why the rehabilitation process becomes delayed is because exercises to increase the range of motion of a person would lead to an increase in the inflammation and muscle spasm. Therefore, recovery will be slower than when the therapist will begin the treatment process with the reduction of inflammation and muscle spasm.
Most departments of physical therapy in Texas would begin the treatment process with deep electrical stimulation and cold packs so that inflammation and muscle spasm are significantly reduced. In addition, these methods of treatment are far more effective than prescribing pain and inflammation medication to alleviate the patients symptoms.
A lot of Dallas physical therapy centers recommend cold packs to alleviate pain not only within the premises of the rehabilitation center but also when the patient goes home or goes to work. Inflammation is effectively controlled with the cold therapy and is frequently advised to patients with this symptom. The cold packs are applied on the inflamed area about 10-15 minutes and is repeated every couple of hours thereafter.
The decrease in the inflammation would be significantly higher than with most inflammation and pain medications. You can consult centers of physical therapy in Texas if you or your loved one would like to have complete therapeutic regiment to alleviate back pain and inflammation.
