I’ve been going to Physical Therapy for 2 bulging disc and it feels ok afterwards. But after an hour or so, my back seems to hurt more with the therapy. I asked the therapist if she thinks its aggravating my back and she said no. But I have the pain not her.
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#1 by AndrewL on December 27, 2009 - 7:51 am
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Yea it’s gonna hurt. But PT is a life saver. But if you’re really concerned make an appointment with your doctor.
#2 by Anonymous on December 27, 2009 - 8:10 am
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It is entirely possible for PT to aggravate an injury , particularly herniated discs. Pain is also quite common with PT so it is not necessarily a true indicator of further aggravation. Some warning signs could be recurring symptoms similar to the ones that led you to seek help such as tingling or pain in extremities. Is your therapist completely up to date on your problems? Do they have copies of MRI results and are they qualified to fully understand the nature of your problem? Some PT are more in tune with problems such as yours. Always tell your PT what is going on for you physically as a result of your therapy even if it requires singing the same song over and over. Pay attention!!! to your body and listen to it! You ARE much more in tune with it than they are. If you continue to have a bad experience you might consider seeing someone else. Good luck.
#3 by mistify on December 27, 2009 - 10:24 am
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In discogenic pain, it is most common for any maneuvers that will worsen your symptoms to do so immediately and not sometime later. All too often, I’ve had patients tell me the exercises made them worse, “hours later” but I later find out that they did the exercises, then sat on their big fluffy couch with bad posture immediately after for the next two hours…THAT is usually the cause of their pain.
…However, for people who are in a state of prolonged subacute pain, it is certainly possible that PT can increase your symptoms hours later. In these cases, taking an anti-inflammatory prior to treatment can be more effective (if OK with your MD). This often allows patients to do corrective exercises without the inflammatory response hours later.
I would first pay attention to what you were doing immediately prior to experiencing your symptoms. How long is your drive home? What do you do after therapy? ect… If you have been following good posture and body mechanics and still experiencing the symptoms, relay this to your therapist as it is possible the treatment is leading to this experience.
#4 by MommyX3 on December 27, 2009 - 3:02 pm
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Well, yes and no – I am in PT now for my neck, knee and back from an accident… I was having spasms up and down my back and it was causing neurological damage – anyway, when the therapist tried to rub out the knots and unpinch teh nerve in my neck, it HURT LIKE HELL! it hurt for a couple of days, like someone kicked me in the back really hard but it was because he had to rub so hard and apply so much pressure to get the knots and nreve back to normal…
On teh otherhand, the place that he rubbed one of the knots out turned out to be tendonitis and a small fracture on my shoulder hat was way aggravated and now hurts like crazy…. go see your orthopedist and ask for an mri to make sure that the therapist is “fixing” teh right things
#5 by Anonymous on December 27, 2009 - 9:41 pm
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pt really does help, it just hurts because you do not use the muscles every day and they work them out
so yea its GONNA hurt
but its all in the healing process