Being physically fit brings so much joy to your life. Unfortunately, as you continue with your day-to-day activities, you suffer injuries that cause both acute and chronic pain affecting your motion. Integrative physical therapy in New York, NY services at Shift Wellness can help restore your strength and mobility after suffering an injury.
Why integrative physical therapy
Integrative physical therapy treatment offers a holistic approach to physical therapy care and focuses on working with the whole person. Through this, it regulates your stress response, targets your root dysfunctions, maximizes your body’s self-healing mechanisms, and pays attention to mind, spirit, and body connection.
The treatment incorporates other active therapies like yoga to help your movement with less pain, more strength ensuring your body is relaxed. Through customized exercise programs and mindful activities, you will improve your posture, your typical movement pattern as you continue gaining strength, balance, and stability.
When to seek integrative physical therapy treatment
You should go for integrative physical therapy if you are experiencing either acute or chronic pain and injuries in your lower back, shoulder, neck, knee, hip, herniated discs, spinal injuries, and ruptured discs.
What to expect during your first visit
When you go for integrative physical therapy, your therapist will conduct a comprehensive evaluation, ask for details concerning your affected area, and affect your daily activities. The information will help your therapist in preparing your care plan.
Your therapist will let you know what you are supposed to wear during your therapy session to enable you to move freely and allow your therapist access to the affected area with ease.
Your therapist will discuss with you the treatment frequency depending on your progress. When you begin your treatment, you may be required to attend two to three sessions per week to help reduce your body pattern.
What to expect during integrative physical therapy
Your therapist will treat your whole body, not only the area where symptoms are because the cause of your pain can be from a different location in your body.
When you begin your therapy, you will experience fatigue and a slight increase in pain, but you should not panic. The pain will subside after one or two days, depending on your condition.
After treatment, you should drink a lot of water to flush out toxins that your body releases and help rehydrate your fascial system.
To aid in your recovery processes, you need to relax or sleep a few extra hours when your body feels tired after therapy. Assist your body by providing what it requires.
Your therapist will advise you to follow your care plan as scheduled for an excellent result. If you experience new symptoms affecting separate parts of your body because of your treatment, it is good to inform your therapist.
You should follow instructions given by your therapist and in case you find it hard to perform an exercise, it is good to let your therapist know to avoid causing harm to your tissues.
To learn more about how to restore your physical health after an injury, call or book an appointment online at Shift Wellness.