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Letting Chronic Pain Rule Your Life?
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According to the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care (AFMC) website, Arkansas has seen a dramatic increase in opioid use for pain management over the past 20 years. Strong addictions to pain medications have resulted in an increase in emergency department visits, prescription drug substance abuse admissions, overdoses, and deaths. In an article by Rudd RA, ... Read More
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Benefits of Physical Therapy Versus Opioids
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Why Choose Physical Therapy Over Opioids? Chronic pain affects patients not only physically, but emotionally and psychologically as well. Treating pain can often be challenging because there is no concrete way to measure it. It is invisible and sometimes inconsistent. However, many healthcare professionals agree that physical therapy provides a successful avenue for pain management ... Read More
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Aquatic Therapy-Getting Results
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What is the significance of water and how does it seem to have a healing effect through aquatic therapy? Water has long been a therapeutic tool and resource for healing, relaxation, and rehabilitation since the beginning of recorded history. The unique properties of water (buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, relative density, resistance, turbulence) serve to promote physical ... Read More