Physical Medicine and Therapeutic Procedures

What are Physical Medicine and Therapeutic Procedures?

At BackFit Health + Spine, we are dedicated to delivering top-tier physical medicine services to help our patients recover from injury, manage pain, and improve their overall health. Physical medicine focuses on diagnosing, treating, and managing physical impairments and disabilities through comprehensive care, targeted therapies, and patient education.

Our physical medicine experts:

• Conduct thorough medical evaluations to create personalized treatment plans.
• Utilize various techniques to promote movement, reduce pain, and restore physical function.
• Help patients prevent injury and disability by enhancing strength, mobility, and overall well-being.

Physical medicine is designed to address musculoskeletal and neurological conditions, allowing patients to live healthier, more active lives. Through personalized care plans, we help you regain mobility and manage your condition to achieve lasting health improvements.

Here at BackFit Health + Spine, we fully embrace the value of physical medicine in supporting long-term health and wellness.

What’s the difference between physical medicine and therapeutic procedures?

At BackFit Health + Spine, we specialize in physical medicine and therapeutic procedures to provide comprehensive care for injury recovery, pain management, and overall wellness.

Physical medicine focuses on diagnosing and treating musculoskeletal and neurological conditions. Our team develops personalized treatment plans that include a variety of hands-on and non-invasive therapies to improve movement, reduce pain, and restore function.

Therapeutic procedures are targeted interventions that help accelerate recovery, such as ultrasound therapy, dry needling, electrical stimulation (TENS), laser therapy, and more. These procedures work in combination with physical medicine to address a wide range of conditions, from acute injuries to chronic pain.

At BackFit, our integrated approach ensures that each patient receives tailored care, combining physical medicine expertise with advanced therapeutic techniques to achieve the best outcomes for your health.

What can physical medicine treat?

Physical Medicine can treat a long list of conditions, including but not limited to:

These pain management treatments can help people of all ages heal, from the very young to adults and seniors.

What techniques might be part of my plan at BackFit?

BackFit integrates a wide range of state-of-the-art techniques, including:

• Hand Therapy: rehabilitation for conditions affecting the hands and upper extremities.
• Lumbar Flexion/Extension: these specific exercises are designed to target an affected or injured area.
• Full Spinal Traction: therapeutic distraction of the injured area providing pain relief and increased range of motion.
• Myofascial Release: sustaining an assist hold in a dysfunctional soft tissue area.
• Soft Tissue Mobilization: rhythmic movement at a dysfunctional soft tissue area.
• Joint Mobilization: a manual intervention designed to improve joint mobility, ROM, and decrease pain.
• Muscle Energy Technique (MET): manual therapy that uses muscle contractions to relax and lengthen muscles and normalize joint motion.
• Therapeutic Exercise: patient specific exercises prescribed to improve deficits such as decreased strength, flexibility, and muscular endurance.
• Neuromuscular Reeducation: activities employed to improve proprioception (spatial awareness), balance, gait, and kinesthetic (tactile) awareness.
• Kinesio Taping: therapeutic taping technique applied to the skin to facilitate or inhibit muscular activity, reduce swelling, and increase joint stability.
• TENS: multiple electrodes are placed on your skin, then a low-voltage electrical current is passed between them through your skin for acute pain relief.
• PENS: similar to TENS but for chronic pain. Small needle electrodes are placed into the soft tissue or muscle and a low-voltage current is passed between them.
• Functional Dry Needling: use of small needles to deactivate trigger points and loosen shortened muscles.
• Deep Ultrasound Therapy: modality designed to facilitate muscular activity, inhibit pain, and reduce swelling.

Beyond these devices and techniques, we believe strongly that physical medicine is also about patient education and home exercise prescriptions. We will provide you with a prognosis, expectations, and information on how to prevent recurrence of injury. Your treatment plan will include printed, custom exercise and stretches that you can do at home between visits and after you complete treatment in the clinic.

How long are treatment plans at BackFit?

Sessions vary from 15 minutes to 1 hour depending on your diagnosis and treatment plan. A treatment plan can last a few weeks to a few months.

BackFit is dedicated to providing you with exceptional physical medicine. Whether your pain is from acute injury or a chronic condition, our primary goal is to accurately identify the root cause. By addressing the underlying cause directly, we can help you correct it as quickly and safely as possible.

Our entire team of medical and chiropractic physicians is available for any further diagnosis and treatment necessary.