Many people who can afford or who have health insurance coverage have become regular with health check ups.
We all know these tests include many things but not much of this directly relates to physical assessment.
When anyone develops slow onset knee arthritic pain or low back pain we must understand that we have missed out on that preventive phase where well regulated physical activity may have delayed the onset if not completely prevented it.
Physical Health though related to general physiological and other health parameters, is on it's own a big challenge to be maintained.
Visit your Physio for timely assessment if you see any changes in your physical abilities or if you have any kind of pain. Visiting your PT for an ultrasound therapy after you are already on a pain killer medication and expecting miracles when you have already booked a knee/ spine surgery date is exactly the way some of our cities letting pollution to reach it's peak before looking for solutions.
PTs may still be able to help you in these conditions but this is lot more stressful for both you and your PT.
In this, what may not work well is that you expect a certain defined pattern of recovery as described to you by non PT healthcare professionals. Medicine prescription may work in a fixed way but exercise prescription needs every day improvisation. So a PTs way of seeing a problem may be variable and you must trust that.
Also every patient must be aware of the phenomenon of over diagnosis which is applicable to both general health and physical health.
We all know these tests include many things but not much of this directly relates to physical assessment.
When anyone develops slow onset knee arthritic pain or low back pain we must understand that we have missed out on that preventive phase where well regulated physical activity may have delayed the onset if not completely prevented it.
Physical Health though related to general physiological and other health parameters, is on it's own a big challenge to be maintained.
Visit your Physio for timely assessment if you see any changes in your physical abilities or if you have any kind of pain. Visiting your PT for an ultrasound therapy after you are already on a pain killer medication and expecting miracles when you have already booked a knee/ spine surgery date is exactly the way some of our cities letting pollution to reach it's peak before looking for solutions.
PTs may still be able to help you in these conditions but this is lot more stressful for both you and your PT.
In this, what may not work well is that you expect a certain defined pattern of recovery as described to you by non PT healthcare professionals. Medicine prescription may work in a fixed way but exercise prescription needs every day improvisation. So a PTs way of seeing a problem may be variable and you must trust that.
Also every patient must be aware of the phenomenon of over diagnosis which is applicable to both general health and physical health.
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