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May 31, 2018

Low Back Pain: A Treatment That Doesn’t Come in a Pill Bottle

According to APTA (American Physical Therapy Association), A new study has added to the growing body of evidence that beyond its effectiveness as a treatment for the pain itself, there are additional benefits to receiving physical therapy for low back pain (LBP) as a first-line approach: doing so could save money and dramatically reduce the chance of receiving an opioid prescription down the road.

Why should you choose PT as a first option before turning to an opioid prescription? Here are a few reasons:

  • Significantly lower costs- patients with low-back pain who received care from a PT first experienced lower out-of-pocket, pharmacy, and outpatient costs after 1 year.
  • Decrease in opioid usage– Low-back pain patients reduce their likelihood of receiving an opioid prescription by 87% compared with patients who never visited a PT.
  • It’s safer!- Authors point out, “Opioid overdoses have reached epidemic proportions, and opioids have not been found to significantly improve health outcomes. First-line, nonpharmacological methods to treat LBP (low-back pain)  have been recommended in the literature; this study suggests that [physical therapy] may be a positive alternative.

Read the full study here.

 

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