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Importance of Physical Therapy for patients- Rheumatoid arthritis

Posted by Kale Isaacson on Jul 25, 2012 9:47:00 PM
  • Now let’s talk about pain -The doctors use the common 1-10 pain scale to tell them where your pain is at any given time. My PT’s talk about 3 parts of pain:
  1. 1) intensity of pain, is it a 1 or a 10 ----or somewhere in between
  2.  2) Frequency of flare-ups, Sometimes , all the time or am I in remission?
  3.  3) Duration of flare-ups.  How long do they last? Keep a journal to recite all of these to your Dr or PT.
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