“Did their utmost to help alleviate my conditions with great results!”

“If I wasn’t doing physical therapy, I wouldn’t be strong enough!”

The connection between opioid drug abuse and physical therapy may not seem clear until you consider that taking medication for pain caused by things like a knee injury, shoulder surgery, or chronic low-back problems is a common way for someone to become hooked on opioid drugs. 

National Physical Therapy Month was established in 1981 by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). 

National Physical Therapy Month is an annual designation observed in October. The American Physical Therapy Association encourages everyone to raise awareness of physical therapy as a safe, effective alternative route to medication such as opioids for treatment of chronic pain conditions. 

Arthritis is a painful condition that can happen to anyone. While women are more likely to experience joint pain than are men, statistics show that almost two-thirds of those who suffer from arthritic joint pain are actually of working age–that means regardless of gender, those between the age of 20 and 65 are actually at the greatest risk of experiencing this type of pain. 

Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in the United States, affecting more than 50 million American adults. 

Whether it is a pop in the knee with every step that you take, or a crack of your fingers with every attempt to open a jar, chances are that you aren’t going to realize just how much you rely on your joints to perform up to par until you are experiencing regular joint pain.