PT Over Pills
Get Rid of Headaches with PT
Headaches are no joke – while a mild headache may just be a nuisance, serious headaches can leave victims debilitated and desperately searching for a way to get rid of headaches. Headaches affect 47% of…
Chronic Pain 101
Chronic pain can be devastating. You wonder if you’ll ever feel normal again. You’ve tried everything…. pills, chiropractic, miracle cures, injections. Or you spend time trying to find the right surgical solution, but no one…
Avoid Addictive Opioids. Choose Physical Therapy for Safe Pain Management. #ChoosePT
No one wants to live in pain. But no one should put their health at risk in an effort to be pain free. Since 1999, Americans have increasingly been prescribed opioids—painkillers like Vicodin, OxyContin, Opana, and methodone,…
How Physical Therapists Manage Pain
As America combats a devastating opioid epidemic, safer, non-opioid treatments have never been of greater need. Physical therapy is among the safe, effective alternatives recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in guidelines…
60% of Adults Prescribed Opioids Have Leftover Pills
Prescription opioid deaths have quadrupled since 1999, yet even as the heartbreaking effect of the opioid epidemic increases, Americans are holding on to—and sharing—their pills. A Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health survey found…