Articles Showing articles written by: Dr. Adam Cramer, PT, DPT; MyoFit Clinic
Skip the primary care doctor or surgeon and go directly to a physical therapist
If you’re suffering from chronic aches and pains, prolonged stiffness or weakness, lack of functionality or acute pain due an injury, there’s no need to wait to get the help you need. You can go directly to a physical therapist first without having to see a primary care physician or surgeon. “Over the past 10 years, the direct access...
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Is your body telling you something is wrong?
“Pain is the body’s alarm system for telling us something is going wrong,” says Dr. Adam Miller, PT, DPT, a colleague of mine at MyoFit physical therapy clinics. Listening to that alarm to pinpoint its root cause is at the core of what we do here. Our independently owned clinics follow a model of private physical therapy and...
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Swelling is good and other things your doctor probably won’t tell you
It’s a common misconception that physical therapy only follows surgery or other treatment, and that you need a referral from another doctor to begin physical therapy. In the state of Ohio, you do not need a physician’s referral or prescription to have your physical therapy services covered. Actually, for the best outcomes in the long run,...
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X-rays don’t always tell the whole truth
When people have back pain, orthopedic conditions or injuries, the first thing they want to do is get an X-ray or MRI. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Well, when it comes to efficiently diagnosing what really ails you, that actually doesn’t hold true. Oftentimes, there may be abnormalities on an X-ray that are identified,...
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Avoid orthopedic surgery by trying physical therapy, first
A plethora of recent studies have indicated that for many orthopedic ailments—lower back conditions, torn ACL or meniscus, rotator cuff issues—taking the conservative path of physical therapy is just as effective, if not more so, than surgery. Armed with a high-tech arsenal of treatment methods as doctors of physical therapy at...
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