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From a simple joint sprain to complex hip and knee reconstruction, there are many reasons to start physical therapy treatment. Yet, regardless of the severity of your condition, one truth remains true about physical therapy — you get out of it what you put into it. StayFIT Physical Therapy in Aiea and Kapolei, Hawaii, employs the best physical therapists who seek to help patients on the road to better health and well-being. Whether you have a painful muscle strain or a frozen shoulder, their physical therapy treatments will be tailored to your unique health needs.

An essential part of recovering from a surgery or injury is a commitment to regaining one's health. Treatment at StayFIT Physical Therapy works even better when you follow these tips:

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  1. Complete your Physical Therapy Treatment: Completing all your prescribed visits is essential in ensuring your full recovery and prevention of future pain for that injury. When patients end their physical therapy visits early, often time the pain returns. 
  2. Be Cautious of What Activities You Do In and Out of Physical Therapy: Understand that staying away from activities (and ways you perform those activities) that cause your pain is equally, if not more important, than the exercises that you perform to help you. Also, make sure you are not doing the same exercises while in therapy (unless you don’t know how to perform them); Instead, make sure that you do things that you cannot already do on your own. We are here to make sure that you know what to do, how to do it and when.

  3. Talk To Your Therapist: Like any good relationship, communication is key. Be sure you and your therapist understand your treatment goals from the first consultation. Talk to your therapists about any questions you may have to get the answers you need before you leave.
  4. Practice and Continue the Home Exercise Program: At home, continue to practice the stretches learned in physical therapy and follow your personalized Home Exercise Program created by your therapists. It is so important that therapy continues outside of the clinic to ensure the healing and success of physical therapy. For example, if you go to therapy 2 hours per week, that is, only 1% of the hours in a week. 
  5. Take Care of Your Body: When your body has pain from an injury, muscle soreness, or recent surgery, your body needs adequate amount of sleep to heal and water to keep your body and muscles hydrated. In physical therapy, patients do a variety of stretches and exercises. Adjusting what one eats to add more protein, potassium, and electrolytes is one way to help the healing process. 

While physical therapy can be challenging in the moment, its benefits can last a lifetime. You'll find the best physical therapists in the Aiea and Kapolei areas at our StayFIT Physical Therapy clinics. Visit them online to learn more about this friendly, welcoming practice, and call (808) 487-0487 to schedule an appointment today.

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