A Physical Therapist in Peoria AZ will help patients of all ages rehabilitate, treat, and prevent chronic conditions, illnesses, and injuries. As a patient, you will be given a customized care plan built with treatment techniques to advance the ability to move, reduce pain, restore function, and prevent disability. Physical therapists promote not only optimal physical function but optimal wellness and fitness, and optimal quality of life as it relates to movement and health with holistic exercises and continuing education.

5 Reasons Why You Should Try Physical Therapy First

1. Reducing or Eliminating Pain. Physical therapy is often the best choice you can make when dealing with long-term pain (chronic pain) or an injury. Physical therapists don’t just treat pain. They treat the source of the pain. Physical therapy won’t hurt, either. Sometimes you may feel sore after stretching, deep tissue massage, or after strengthening muscles, but there’s a reason for that. Your PT has created a customized care plan and sometimes to get stronger, you will have to go through training, but it shouldn’t be too much.
   

   

2. Avoid Surgery. If physical therapy can eliminate your pain or help you heal from injury, there may be no need for surgery. Additionally, if surgery is your best option, physical therapy can help you to reach a better physical condition for surgery, as well as promote a range of motion and increase strength post-surgery.
3. Recover from or Prevent a Sports Injury. Physical therapists can design a customized care plan that strengthens or restores motion for prevention or recovery, so you can return to your sport.
4. Women’s Health and Other Conditions. Physical therapists can create a customized care plan around pregnancy and post-partum care, as well as bowel incontinence, breast cancer, constipation, fibromyalgia, lymphedema, male pelvic health, pelvic pain, and urinary incontinence, with the knowledge and expertise of strengthening and rehabilitating various types of specific conditions.
5. Continuing Education. One of the greatest things about physical therapy is that your PT will provide you with numerous exercises to continue to strengthen, rehabilitate, and prevent your specific condition at home. Physical therapy is a continuing effort to promote optimal physical function, optimal wellness and fitness, and optimal quality of life as it relates to movement and health.

Physical Therapist Peoria AZ

Many don’t seek physical therapy until it’s the last resort. Luckily, physical therapy can still help. However, by choosing physical therapy as the first option you’re choosing to heal your body naturally. You may find relief and recovery faster, as well as learn methods of prevention with the use of massage therapy, exercise, and other natural remedies.

If you have any questions about physical therapy and what your customized care plan may look like, we offer a Free Physical Therapy “Discovery” Session which is perfect for anyone who would like to learn how physical therapy can help them get back to the activities they love before committing to receive the extra benefits included in a full consultation. This is a great way to “test the waters” to see if Desert Edge Physical Therapy is the right fit for you!