Guest guest Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Anyone use traction???? I am rebooting Pt again and next week will start using traction. Any thoughts of that? I am miserable and in pain all time but keep on trucking! Annie A poet is, after all, to see From: grasshopperx_10 <woody1014@...> Subject: Re: Physical Therapy? neck pain Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 5:34 PM Do you do the neck turns to the side? what kind did you do for exercises? they keep telling me i ought to do neck isometrics to strengthen it up? truthfully i just get lazy and dont do it.but i should! cindy > > > > > > Did Physical Therapy work for any of you with neck problems? > > e- > I had two tries at PT. When I first went to the doctor about my > scapula pain, he sent me for an MRI which showed the cervical issues, > then he sent me for physical therapy. I gave it a good go, but my > pain increased. I went in to the next appointment to tell the > physical therapist thank you very much, but you know how you said not > to do it if it caused me pain? It causes me pain. In fact, it > aggravates my pain. We ended the physical therapy at that time. > Then the doctor sent me to the next step, to consult for epidural > steroid injections. This took another 3 or 4 months. They did help. > The pain came back and finally I had 3 surgeries in 3 weeks. > Six months later, I attempted my second try at Physical Therapy. > This time it was a life saver. I had been horizontal for 18 months. I > needed PT to get up and moving again. Then the exercises helped hold > up my neck. > So physical therapy can be helpful or not, and it is an important > part of the process that you feed back what is happening when you do > it. > in OR > ------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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