• Question: Does physical therapy speed up the recovery process ?

    Asked by Ava O’C to Liudmila on 10 Nov 2020.
    • Photo: Liudmila Khokhlova

      Liudmila Khokhlova answered on 10 Nov 2020:

      Great question! I always try to highlight the importance of physiotherapy. To answer, yes, even though physical damage to bones/muscles/ligaments will heal eventually on their own, sometimes a full recovery is not even possible without physiotherapy. For example, after reconstruction of a ligament in the knee a person may never have a full range of motion and be able to move their leg as they used to unless they’ve done a proper physio course. Another example will be rehabilitation after strokes, where physio helps to restore neural connections and basically teaches a person to do some tasks, for example walking, again.

Comments

  • Photo: Ava O’C

    Ava O’C commented on :

    Thank you! If you didn’t do physical therapy do you think your injured part of you body could be handicapped from doing sports if the injury was serious?

    • Photo: Liudmila

      Liudmila commented on :

      Depends on the type of injury, can’t say for all. In the case of torn anterior cruciate ligament, without proper physio person may never be able to return to sport again. Some people may retain a sort of the limp after having knee surgery, even though they’re technically healed. The physio helps with that as well.