Why do you wait until the wheels have literally fallen off before you seek help for that pain that you thought would miraculously disappear. That good old mentality of ‘I just need to harden up’. ‘It’ll come right eventually’.
I’ve been working with individuals that have been in some kind of pain for up to 10/11 years and have just lived with varying degrees of it. It’s not until it has pretty much affected not only their physical self but their mental self too. Pain affects sleep, relationships, work, physical activity. All of which we need to feel and be healthy and happy.
No physical therapist should allow you to continue seeing them on a weekly basis without seeing some kind of improvement. It’s blatant daylight robbery and you should be questioning any treatment that doesn’t heed some kind of long term relief. If you aren’t improving, change what you’re doing or who is doing it.
We need to change the way we look at physical therapy. It”s not a luxury to want to keep your body in the best possible form it can be, especially when it can impact on your ability to work. It’s a necessity. Address the minor issue before it becomes a major one.
