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• Develop a physical therapy program with a trained physical therapist based upon your individual goals and the rehab facility’s goals

• Bring a video camera to record your physical therapy program

• Develop a home therapy program

• In order to develop a perfect home physical therapy program, it is important for an individual with a spinal cord injury to go to the best possible rehabilitation facility in the area

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What is Physical Therapy?

Physical therapy is “treatment of physical dysfunction or injury by the use of therapeutic exercise and the application of modalities that are intended to restore or facilitate normal function or development.” Click here for more definitions

Why is Physical Therapy important?

Another word for physical therapy is therapeutic exercise.  Therapeutic exercise is very important because without it the body would atrophy and would begin to break down and weaken.

Exercise keeps the body moving in a healthy direction. Determined2Heal is a strong believer in physical therapy and believes that individuals who dedicate their lives to physical therapy will see the greatest results in their recovery.

Having a good physical therapy program works to decrease the bodies break down and allows spinal cord injury individuals to meet science and technology halfway when the cure does come. Individuals that do not meet science and technology halfway will not benefit as much as the others who have put the time and energy into keeping their bodies healthy.