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September 19, 2019Health News You Can Use, PT Over Pills

Using Physical Therapy to Battle the Pain Killer Crisis

The sooner a patient starts physical therapy, the more quickly they’ll recover, and the less likely they are to misuse opioids.

“PT Over Pills” is a nationwide initiative to prevent the widespread use of pain killers to treat pain in favor of physical therapy. This article is part of a series on the history of the nationwide pain killer epidemic. For those not directly affected by it, the opioid crisis sounds like a faraway problem. But […]