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Generic Name: Physical Therapy (PT)

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84 patient evaluations for Physical Therapy (PT)

Purpose: Broken Leg (right) (Started Aug 24, 2010)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Feb 07, 2012 120 min Daily Led_efficacy_2Led_efficacy_2Led_defaultLed_defaultSlight NoneNoneNoneNoneNone UsuallyUsuallyUsuallyUsuallyUsually SomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhat
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Purpose: Degenerative Disc Disease (Started Jan 01, 2008)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Jan 15, 2012 15 min Daily Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_defaultModerate NoneNoneNoneNoneNone UsuallyUsuallyUsuallyUsuallyUsually A littleA littleA littleA littleA little
Date
Jan 15, 2012
Advice & Tips
I feel better, move better, work better and can think clearer. I just stretch and do a little bit of yoga each morning and maybe during the evening. Getting motivated is just the most difficult part of this kind of therapy.
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Purposes: Pain, Limited range of motion, Loss of coordination, Fatigue, Generalized weakness (asthenia), Pain in hips, and Bursitis (Started Oct 01, 2010)
Date Dosage Pain Perceived effectiveness Limited range of motion Perceived effectiveness Loss of coordination Perceived effectiveness Fatigue Perceived effectiveness Generalized weakness (asthenia) Perceived effectiveness Pain in hips Perceived effectiveness Bursitis Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Jan 15, 2012 100 min Weekly Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_default Led_efficacy_2Led_efficacy_2Led_defaultLed_default Led_efficacy_1Led_defaultLed_defaultLed_default Led_efficacy_2Led_efficacy_2Led_defaultLed_default Led_efficacy_2Led_efficacy_2Led_defaultLed_default Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4 Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_default NoneNoneNoneNone AlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlways SomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhat
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Purpose: Pain (Started Dec 02, 2011)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Jan 10, 2012 120 min Weekly Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_defaultModerate NoneNoneNoneNoneNone AlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlways SomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhat
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Purpose: Other (Started Mar 01, 2008)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Jan 01, 2012 60 min Daily Led_efficacy_1Led_defaultLed_defaultLed_defaultNone SevereSevereSevereSevereSevere AlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlways SomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhat
Date
Jan 01, 2012
Advice & Tips
It was very painful to do the physical therapy. I did the therapy every day and it just caused more and more pain. It was mostly stretching and strength excersizes and they caused my muscles to burn terribly.
Cost
< $25 monthly
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Purposes: Spasticity and Muscle weakness (Started Jun 01, 2011)
Date Dosage Spasticity Perceived effectiveness Muscle weakness Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Dec 23, 2011 120 min Weekly Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Major Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Major NoneNoneNoneNoneNone AlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlways SomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhat
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Purpose: Degenerative Disc Disease (Started Apr 01, 2011)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Nov 26, 2011   Led_efficacy_1Led_defaultLed_defaultLed_defaultNone SevereSevereSevereSevereSevere NeverNeverNeverNeverNever A littleA littleA littleA littleA little
Date
Nov 26, 2011
Advice & Tips
From my experience, physical therapy is a disaster for treatment of herniated disk in the lumbar spine (L4-L5). Physical therapy was never proven to work for fixing herniated disk or aleviating any of the symptoms or pain related to that (such as sciatic pain). If your symptoms improved during the physical therapy, they would have probably improved without the physical therapy. However, physical therapy, in particular when it involves mobilization/manipulation in the lower back, can be disastrous and might lead to what might be permanent and life long damages and pain. My first physical therapist told me to sit straight and gave me a couple of exercises to do at my home and work. Before seeing her I had almost full range of motion. After I tried to sit straight according to her instructions and did the exercises that she recommended, my range of motion was reduced substantially and it was much harder for me to bend. It was a very bad experience. After discussing the exercises that she gave me with 2 other physical therapists, they said that I should have never been given these exerces. And the original physical therapist who gave me these exercises was very experienced and specialized in back problems... The experience from my second physical therapist was even much worse. I might have life long unpleasant tingling sensations in my leg due to his malpractice. He is actually a very nice person who is an expert (with certificates) in the McKenzie method, which is now a leading method in physical therapy. One of the reasons that I came to his clinic was because I did not want to spend time and money working with physical therapy assistants, but with licensed physical therapists. However, he had a physical therapy student who was doing a rotation with him for 10 weeks. He gradually let her take care of my PT exercises. However, he also let her work for 15 minutes on my lower back in doing mobilization/manipulation. Immediately after these 15 minutes of her work, while I was still at the clinic, I started to suffer from constant unpleasant tingling (the medical term is paresthesia) sensations in my leg. I currently (around 5 months after the 'treatment') still have these sensations, even after a successful surgery that got rid of the pain, but not of these unpleasant tingling sensations. Notice, when you do physical therapy, at least where I live, I am in a room with many bother patients and my physical therapist or physical therapy assistant also had 1 other patient when seeing me. The famous physical therapist who I saw barely remebered what were my symptoms. The method of seeing 2 patients at a time means that your time and money are wasted as you don't get the full attention of the caregiver. Did you ever see a Dr for a 1 hour meeting and the Dr saw another patient at the same time? My sincere suggestion to patients who suffer from sciatic pain related to a herniated disk, is to avoid physical therapy. If for some reason you want to give it a try, avoid manipulations/mobilizations in the lower back as they were never proven to help but can surely cause side effects that the physical therapist and their assistants have no clue how to fix.
Cost
$50-99 monthly
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Purpose: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (Started Jan 01, 1990)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Nov 05, 2011 150 min Weekly Led_efficacy_2Led_efficacy_2Led_defaultLed_defaultSlight MildMildMildMildMild AlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlways A littleA littleA littleA littleA little
Date
Nov 05, 2011
Advice & Tips
It's not fun but I feel better afterwards.
Cost
$25-49 monthly
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Purpose: Stiffness/Spasticity (Started May 02, 2011)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Oct 19, 2011 90 min Weekly Led_efficacy_1Led_defaultLed_defaultLed_defaultNone ModerateModerateModerateModerateModerate NeverNeverNeverNeverNever VeryVeryVeryVeryVery
Date
Oct 19, 2011
Advice & Tips
Make sure to find someone who is gentle and knows about Fibromyaliga
Cost
$200+ monthly
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Purpose: Vestibular balance problems (Started Aug 15, 2011)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Oct 15, 2011 180 min Weekly Led_efficacy_1Led_defaultLed_defaultLed_defaultNone NoneNoneNoneNoneNone AlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlways A littleA littleA littleA littleA little
Date
Oct 15, 2011
Advice & Tips
No perceived benefit.
Cost
$25-49 monthly
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