Injured After a Slip, Trip or Fall? How PT Can Help

Sometimes, you become so overwhelmed by a fall that it’s hard to know what to do. Your first thought might be to take medication to feel better or just wait it out and hope you recover fine. 

However, physical therapy is one of the fastest, most effective ways to reduce pain and promote healthy healing. Learn about the most common injuries, why physical therapy is helpful after falls, and how PRO Therapy can help you feel better in no time.

Common Injuries After a Slip, Trip, or Fall

Falls can happen to anyone at any age, but you don’t have to let the consequences linger. Whether you’ve experienced a fracture, sprain, head injury, bruising, or heightened anxiety after a slip, trip, or fall, physical therapy can help you recover and regain your confidence.

While visible injuries like bruises, muscle soreness, casts, or braces may seem daunting, even mild falls can sometimes lead to unseen issues or a fear of falling again. That’s where the expertise of a physical therapist can make a remarkable difference.

Through personalized evaluation and treatment plans, physical therapy can address your specific needs, promote healing, restore strength and mobility, and equip you with strategies to prevent future falls. With the right guidance, you can bounce back from a fall and embrace an active, independent lifestyle once more.

So, the question is, how can physical therapy help you recuperate?

Why Is Physical Therapy Helpful After a Fall?

Physical therapy is an intentional, strategic approach to regaining mobility and lessening pain after an accident or diagnosis. By attending physical therapy appointments routinely after a slip, trip, or fall, your body will increase strength, flexibility and mobility. Some of the benefits include pain reduction, promoting proper healing, improving mobility, alleviating anxiety, and preventing future falls. 

Pain Reduction

Physical therapy with PRO Therapy aims at resolving your pain by getting to the root of your injury. After an injury, you can reduce pain and slowly regain your strength while getting rid of discomfort as you progress.

Your specific treatment plan will depend on your needs, but these are some of the treatments PRO Therapy offers:

Promote Proper Healing and Improve Mobility

Our physical therapists have years of experience helping people in similar predicaments. Our physical therapists will help promote proper healing by guiding you on the right movements, exercises, and activities—as well as what to avoid, for now.

Physical therapy is also great for your body after a fall because you may be avoiding movement altogether—and muscles tend to stiffen up and deteriorate if they’re not being used. But through PT appointments, you can slowly but surely regain strength, coordination and help your body heal. 

Alleviate Anxiety and Prevent Future Falls

After a particularly harsh fall, it’s perfectly normal to feel scared while in similar situations to when the accident occurred. On top of that, you may feel even more prone to injury since it already happened once. 

Part of our physical therapy treatments after a fall includes preventing future falls and increasing your strength to reduce the likelihood of serious injury. We help you regain control and confidence in your body and movement, so you can return to your life.

Physical Therapy with PRO Therapy

At PRO Therapy, you will always experience precise, caring, and one-on-one care from a Licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy—no tech aides, no rehab assistants, no personal trainer—to help you decrease pain by the time you walk out the door of your first session and create a plan to adhere to going forward.

If you want to make physical therapy a success, partnering with one of our Doctors of Physical Therapy is going to help you avoid future pain and resolve current pain.

We love to help people:

• Keep Active: By actively using PT, your body will be in the best shape to run after your kids, grandchildren, or pets all day, enjoy a nice round of golf, run, walk, and do your favorite activities anytime it suits you.
• Stay Free From Painkillers: Pills are only a quick fix to mask the underlying issue. If you’re hoping for a more permanent solution to your chronic pain, physical therapy appointments are better for you in the long term.
• Avoid Surgery and Injections: Our physical therapists at PRO Therapy can help you get to the root cause of what’s going on, so you don’t have to get to the point of having to face surgery or injections to correct the problem.
• Find Out What’s Wrong: We’ll help give you peace of mind and ensure that your problem is corrected and healed properly. We also give you a set of exercises perfectly curated for your pain to ensure a faster recovery.
• Get More Enjoyment Out of Life: Without daily aches and pains inhibiting your life, you can enjoy quality time with family and friends and finally get a good night’s sleep without constantly tossing and turning.

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Are you ready to make physical therapy work for you? Give us a call! We offer complimentary phone consultations and discovery visits. We aim to meet our patients wherever they are in their journey and answer all the questions we can to ensure a smooth experience at PRO Therapy. We want to help you make the best decision for you!

PRO Therapy is an Independently Owned Orthopedic Physical Therapy Clinic. At PRO Therapy, we treat back, knee, neck/shoulder, ankle/foot, and hip pain as well as sports injuries, surgery rehabilitation, and anything else that’s causing you pain. We want everyone to have exceptional care, better access to care and be able to complete the activities in life that make them happy – free from a life of painkillers, injections, or surgeries.