Manipulation and Physical Therapy
The phrase manipulation can mean many things in the healthcare field. In the field of physical therapy, it refers to skilled therapists applying mobilizations to joints at varying degrees of needed intensity. If gentle mobilizations are required, that is what is performed. If a mobilization needs to be stronger, it can be performed in gentle and effective ways with progressive forces. Manipulation can rapidly relieve your pain, but often as the best research shows, it requires skilled therapeutic interventions in combination to gain long-term benefits. A joint pops or “cavitates” from an “adjustment” or manipulation due to the synovial capsule being rapidly stretched at high velocity and low amplitude. Our doctors of physical therapy are highly skilled at understanding the right times to apply the appropriate intensity of manipulation.
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