Physical Therapy

My husband too went through many sessions of physical therapy for his sprained ankle, which caused him to limp for how many months whenever he walks. He had it two times a week for almost two months and was amazed that it corrected his sprained ankle. He now walks without a trace of a limp, and can go with us to attend mass in a church on top of a hill, which we would enjoy walking.

hddc4free I agree. I had a bad fall the day after Vaentines day and broke my nose and blacked my eyes, but worse yet ruined my right knee. I am 84 and have arthriits in both knees. that fall made my knee hurt so much I cou ld not even walk to the bathroom. i finally got my doctor to get them to send me to the rehab hospital. I had physical therapy on my right knee from monday thru Saturday for the 20 days I was there. I was able to use a walker in a few days and by the time I had run out of my insurance payment I was able to walk with a litle pain but not like before at all. My knee had been hugely swollen aqnd now it was down to normal size. I try to do those exercises here now but do not always succeed.too much mylotting lol. but it w as marvelous as when I cqme to Care house I could not bear to walk on that right leg.I was also totally amazed as I felt I had ruptured some tendons or something as my leg was so painful. oh yes I had two of the blackest eyes one has ever seen.by the time I was well enough to come back here to Gold Crest my black eyes were a thing of the past. My fellow patients who took physical therapy with me all thought when i first came I had been in an auto crash, but no it was just falling face down on a very hard tile floor with concrete floor under the tile. Now with my walker I do not think I will ever fall again, lol

i have gone to physio a few times in my life for different parts of my body and have liked the results. i have been a long supporter of physical therapy.

Hi there! I am very much in favor of physical therapy as treatment for arthritis, injuries, etc. I have had it before for lymph edema and I have just finished treatment for problems with my right shoulder. I have had success each time. I'm still having pain in my shoulder but my doctor said it will just take time for it to get back the way it should. :)

Some time ago, I was suffering from gaut, very painful. Most of the time it effects the knee joint, some times left side, some times right side. They say it comes from the food one takes which generates uric acid. Any way, gaut is very very painful, unlike any other type of physical pain. It is gone now. I am totally relieved of gaut for some time now. It was all as the benefit of "yoga meditation". Meditation relieves the mind and the body of stresses, and that helps in getting rid of gaut pain.

I used physical therapy once as a teenager after being badly injured in a car accident for six months. Before that, I was a very strong kid, and played a lot of football and lift weights, they said to control my weight, but 'control my weight' ended up being a big muscle teenager. I had the crash at 17 and I weigh 215 pounds. Yes a big boy. Then went through a massive surgery, and came up a lot lighter at 140, but was very weak (for myself, I was probably a regular person). I went to physical therapy to regain my strength, and learn how to walk again, but I guess my body reacts well to heavy lifting since I had been doing it for so long before the crash. I remember my therapist having a hard time with me because I didn't lose as much strength as I thought, because I went right back to heavy lifting, but ended up going heavier. It drew attention to everyone at the place I was going because not many people lift those heavy weights. they were helping strengthen themselves to regain their mobility and health. I was regaining mobility, health, and strength, but they were dealing with a football playing monster. Lifitng like that everyday, and growing, and eating to grow. You can tell by where the stick goes inside of the plates when people lift. No one went as far down as I did. It was always a question if it was too much, but I was getting less tired, and eventually bored. I was basically bulking up while learning how to walk again, and ended up stronger than I was before the crash. By the time I was finished with the therapy, I had grown considerably, to the point people thought I took steroids. But my goal at the time was to walk across the stage at my graduation, and successfully did at 245 pounds of muscle. Not bad considering I was this weak person, and come out stronger. The therapist was probably sad to see me go, but glad at the same time because I wore them out with my levels of energy. I wished I had stayed away form the weights because I am addicted.