What is Whiplash?
Any time you’ve seen an image or a video of a car accident, you see the driver and passengers being jolted forward—their necks snapping forward and/or backward in a violent motion. This force causes damage to the muscles and ligaments in the neck.
While you might feel the results of whiplash immediately, it is common to only notice it a few days after the accident. Symptoms include:
- Stiffness and pain in the neck
- Ringing in the ears
- Dizziness and blurred vision
- Lower back or shoulder pain
- Numbness in the arm or hand
- Concentration issues and sleeplessness
A more visible sign of whiplash or general nerve damage is bruising. If you suffer from any one of these issues following a car accident, you should get to a clinic immediately.
What is Physical Therapy?
Physical therapy is a science-based profession that focuses on individual ailments. Whether it is therapy for back pain, a sports injury, or keeping your joints limber throughout the aging process, Variety Health & Physical Therapy's rehabilitation center provides a much-needed service for treating all those aches and pains that affect your day-to-day activities.
Combining our knowledge of the human body and how it works, along with the clinical skills we've acquired through education, our therapists assess, diagnose and treat the symptoms presented by their clients, including illnesses, injuries or disabilities.
To increase your chances of a swift recovery, allow your therapist to educate you on the healing process, follow your at-home recovery guide and stay optimistic. Your energy and willingness to get back on track is what will get you through to the other side.
Why Does my Back Ache?
Injuries to the back can get much worse, and disrupt your day-to-day life, right down to how well you sleep at night.
This is the type of ailment most associated with physiotherapy. When you experience back pain, sports injuries, or arthritis, this is included in the neuro-musculoskeletal system.
Pediatric and geriatric physiotherapy can fall heavily into this category due to physical birth defects and fall-related injuries.
What is Sports Rehabilitation?
Sports Rehab Physical Therapy differs from everyday injuries as athletes regularly have high demand on their bodies. For professional athletes, it is especially important that they have as little downtime as possible when injured.
Sports therapists have a strong background in orthopedics (therapy involving the musculoskeletal system) and work with athletes of all levels as well as the average active citizen.
Even if you’re a weekend warrior, you can benefit from physical therapy to avoid injury and recover should an accident occur.
How to Prevent Body Pain?
If you're suffering from body pain due to an accident, injury disease or a long-term illness, are an avid sports player or you spend too much time at a desk and want to know the best way to incorporate workouts and avoid arthritis, physiotherapy can help.
Preventative treatment is a reason many athletes seek out physiotherapy.
What is Balance and Gait Training?
Treatment of these injuries so that you will be able to perform day-to-day tasks again with no residual weakness.
Through education, fitness programs, mobility and flexibility exercises, your chances of being injured during a game can be greatly decreased.
For each individual diagnosis, there is an individual fitness and recovery plan.
No two patients are the same and our therapists care about each case.
