At Colorado Accident & Injury, our team is dedicated to restoring you to the active, pain-free lifestyle that you were accustomed to prior to an automobile accident.
Physical therapy is essential for your healing process. Our physical therapist team is board certified and has extensive training and experience in evaluating and treating a wide range of injuries sustained from trauma such as whiplash, concussion, headaches, and orthopedic/neurological injuries. The goal of physical therapy is to decrease your pain, improve your motion/ability to move, improve your function, and assist you in maximizing your return to your pre-accident level of function.
Physical therapy is an instrumental part of the diagnostic team and a critical evaluator who documents the impact an injury has on your life. Perhaps you have lost strength or the range of motion in one of your limbs, your neck, or your back. A physical therapist will evaluate, quantify, and document these impairments and functional limitations to justify medical necessity for further treatment in your case. The physical therapist expertly documents how your injury has affected you. During your evaluation, the physical therapist may order imaging that is medically necessary for your case.
Our physical therapy team is dedicated and will provide expert care to help you in your journey back to full health. Physical therapy treatment may include gentle hands-on manual and neuromuscular treatment to decrease pain and restore motion, dry needling to minimize muscle spasm/pain, carefully prescribed exercises for stretching/strengthening/balance to restore function, vestibular and oculomotor exercises/activities to minimize symptoms of concussion, patient education, modalities for pain relief, and a home program. Our physical therapy team works closely and synergistically with the other expert providers at our clinic to facilitate a faster recovery.
Physical therapy is also an excellent way to recover from the mental anguish that is caused by a sudden accident. Often after an accident, people feel a loss of control due to their injuries and/or circumstances. Physical therapy empowers you to take an active role in the healing process. Actively participating in your treatment fosters a positive feeling toward your own recovery. When you start to feel and move better, you regain the confidence and ability to return to your “normal activities”.
The benefits of Physical Therapy include:
- Expert evaluation that documents the functional impacts of your injuries to your life
- Holistic elimination of pain through gentle progress, restoration of function, and passive healing techniques to allow for reduction in need for pain medication
- Ability to focus on specific soft tissue damage, such as muscles, ligaments, tendons, connective tissue, and nerves.
- Improved metabolic and circulatory functions
- Assists psychological healing from injuries
- Works closely and provides feedback to the rest of your support network (MD, chiropractor, massage therapist, and others) to assist a quicker recovery
- Participatory treatment – a chance to become part of your recovery
- Documents proof you are taking your healing seriously
- Restoration of function as healing progresses
- Preventing the lingering of symptoms and further damage through quicker healing
At Colorado Accident and Injury, we believe the healing process involves a complete team approach that includes ongoing communication and participation among physical therapy, chiropractic, massage therapy, and pain management – with you as the center of the team. Full participation in the recovery process is the best way to achieve quantified, long-term healing.
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