Personal Injury Recovery: 6 Invaluable Benefits of a Personalized Physical Therapy Plan

Accidental injuries are all too common, resulting in nearly 25 million doctor visits and over 26 million trips to the emergency room. However, getting hurt from car wrecks, workplace hazards, and physical attacks is not just physically damaging, but also affects your ability to make money to keep the bills paid. In legal terms, these are known as personal injuries. 

The overall treatment for your injuries will depend on the type and severity of the injury. Still, on the road to recovery, at some point, you’ll need physical therapy to help restore function and mobility, allowing you to return to your routine, if possible. This is where a personalized physical therapy (PT) regimen can be beneficial; let’s review its advantages.

Dr. Joseph Daniels and his medical team at Southwest Orthopedic Associates are dedicated to helping Fort Worth, Texas, residents recover from personal injuries through physical therapy and all other available treatments.

Types of personal injury

Accidents can damage your body in a variety of ways:

• Head and neck injuries: Whiplash and concussions are common forms of trauma
• Back injuries: Spinal and musculoskeletal damage anywhere on your back
• Limb injuries: Falls and impacts can hurt the bones, joints, and muscles in your arms and legs
• Wrist/ hand injuries: Twisting, falling, and impact damage affect the numerous bones and joints there

Car accidents are a common cause of these, but operating unsafe machinery at work, working under hazardous conditions, and falling from ladders at work or elsewhere can also lead to the same problems.

How physical therapy helps

Part of getting joints and soft tissue to heal correctly involves restoring and maintaining range of motion, stability, and mobility, and this is where physical therapy (PT) plays a vital role. This is a general term for a series of exercises and treatments designed to minimize the long-term impact of injuries, including strength training, stretching, heat and cold therapy, hydrotherapy, regenerative medicine, and massage therapy.

We perform physical therapy after any necessary surgeries and can get your joints moving while they are stabilized in casts or braces.

Benefits of personalized physical therapy

Getting personalized treatment gives you a lot of advantages:

1. One-on-one care

Having a single instructor or a group devoted to your recovery means not having to wait while others receive help and getting specialized attention tailored to your needs. You also build rapport with your therapist, which helps make the process easier for everyone.

2. Setting realistic expectations

Someone working with you exclusively can assess your injuries and develop a personalized game plan that sets realistic goals to improve at a pace that doesn’t move too quickly or too slowly.

3. Boost motivation

This form of specialized care also allows you to be motivated as you progress, as the team works with you to encourage you to push as hard as you can.

4. Pain reduction

Progressive movements in a controlled environment help reduce the pain you deal with as you heal, making moving forward easier.

5. Speedy recovery

Personalized therapy focuses on your care, and sticking to the regimen helps you heal faster, even if you’re taking medications or getting other care.

6. Long-term joint health

When we’ve finished helping you heal up and restore function, we can set you on a regimen to maintain our progress and keep joints and other body parts strong for years.

Personal injuries can be challenging, but we can help you heal with personalized care. Make an appointment with Dr. Daniels and the Southwest Orthopedic Associates team today to start your recovery.