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Early Physical Therapy Can Lessen Long-term Need For Opioids

12/18/2018

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If you are experiencing neck, shoulder, knee, or back pain and do not want to take strong pain killers, your best course of action may be to see a physical therapist for help early. That is the conclusion drawn from a recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association......
After reviewing insurance claims from over 88,000 patients who were not taking opioids prior to an episode of neck, shoulder, low back, or knee pain, the results of the study suggests that early physical therapy (within 30 days) was associated with an approximate 10% reduction in the probability of any opioid use long term. In addition, if the patients did use opioids, seeing a physical therapist early was associated a 5-10% reduction in the the total amount used. Drilling down further, the researchers found that patients with two of the conditions who underwent early physical therapy were less likely to chronically use opioids in the long term — 66 percent less likely for patients with knee pain and 34 percent less likely for patients with low back pain.

Given what we are finding out about the dangers of addiction and long-term consequences of prolonged opioid use, these findings are important. In many cases in the U.S., opioids are prescribed first when a person contacts their health care provider for complaints of pain in the knee, shoulder, back, or neck. Physical therapy is often withheld until later, when the person is not getting better with the pills. This is really the opposite of what should be happening and if you are offered pain meds first, you should request to be seen by a quality physical therapist first. 

At ProMotion, you do not need a referral from a physician to be seen and helped and many times, the earlier you can get treated, the faster you can get back to health and as this study shows, the less likely it is that you will need to take strong pain killers. 

Feel free to reach out if you need help.
Thanks fo reading,
Bob
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Millie Hue link
11/30/2022 09:26:18 pm

Thanks for pointing out that we need to have therapy once you get prescribed some pain meds. I will share this information with my sister so that she gets the best outcome for the physical rehabilitation treatment she would need. She has had an injury in her neck and back because of the impact of the collision she was in earlier.

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