A constant dull ache all over your body. A mental haze that makes focusing on daily tasks harder. Extreme fatigue that makes it harder to get through the day. All these symptoms are ones that fibromyalgia sufferers deal with on a daily basis.
It’s estimated that up to 12 million Americans are living with fibromyalgia, so if you have it, you aren’t alone. A physical therapy specialist can help you find effective treatment for fibromyalgia. These specialists can help you learn more about your condition. They can also create a treatment plan for you that contains multiple beneficial physical therapy methods.
These four physical therapy methods can benefit your fibromyalgia treatment
Physical therapists use many therapy methods to treat fibromyalgia. Four of the most effective of these include:
- Low-impact cardio — The first treatment technique that your physical therapist could include in your plan is cardiovascular exercise. Such exercise is likely to include low-impact options such as walking on a treadmill or water aerobics. Using exercises like these, your physical therapist can help you work to improve your cardiovascular fitness while minimizing the strain on your body.
- Strength training — Another treatment component that could be used in your plan is muscle-strengthening exercises. These exercises can target muscles in and around your chronically painful areas. This increased strength can then help your muscles provide support to your high-pain areas. In turn, the greater support can help reduce nerve compression and ease your pain.
- Range-of-motion exercises — A third treatment method your physical therapist may add to your program is techniques to improve your range of motion. You may feel like you should try to limit how much you move out of fear of causing yourself more pain. Giving in to this feeling only leads to weakened muscles. To help you avoid this form of muscle weakness, your physical therapist can show you movements designed to maintain and improve your range of motion.
- Pain-reducing techniques — Techniques intended to reduce pain are the final component that physical therapists are likely to use in your treatment plan. A few of the techniques that fall into this category include:
- Soft tissue mobilization
- Joint mobilization
- Aquatic therapy
- Spinal stabilization
- Functional dry needling
Border Therapy Services offers beneficial treatment for fibromyalgia
Our team at Border Therapy Services can provide you with a beneficial fibromyalgia treatment plan by combining all four of these elements. A few of the benefits that our treatment plans are designed to offer include:
- Decreasing your level of pain
- Retraining your body to move without triggering pain
- Improving your range of motion and muscle strength
- Enhancing the blood flow in various parts of your body
Our team will start building your plan by determining how fibromyalgia is affecting you specifically. To determine this, we’ll perform a free screening on you. Then, our physical therapists will use the screening data to build you a personalized physical therapy plan.
Contact us today for more information about our fibromyalgia therapy options or to schedule an initial appointment.