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What is physical therapy?

Physical therapy is utilized in conjunction with other treatments to help restore mobility and function and to reduce pain. The physical therapist works with the patient using various exercises and modalities designed to improve the patient’s condition. Modalities include electrical stimulation, cryotherapy, and manual therapy, among others.

What is MedX?

MedX is a comprehensive rehabilitation program that incorporates the sports medicine approach to the treatment of chronic neck and back pain. The MedX machines are specially designed to provide the most effective means of isolating, safely testing, and directly strengthening the muscles in the low back and neck.

What is Chronic Pain?

Chronic pain is pain that has existed for several months and can potentially continue for years. Chronic pain usually stems from either an incurable medical condition or an injury that has previously healed. It can be limited to a specific region of the body or affect many regions at the same time.

Health

Once persistent pain evolves into complex chronic pain, single modality treatments—oral medications, injections, physical therapy—become less effective. In these complicated cases, physical, psychosocial, and emotional components are active and must be addressed simultaneously in a multidisciplinary chronic pain program for effective recovery.

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Therapy

Aquatic therapy has been shown to provide relief of symptoms from a variety of arthritides, traumatic injuries, and other musculoskeletal conditions. This procedure uses the therapeutic properties of water (e.g., buoyancy, resistance).