If so, you just proved that the cause of your pain is muscular and that by simply stretching the quads and strengthening the glutes and hamstrings, you can resolve your lower back pain. No medications, injections or surgeries are necessary. Facebook.
Physical Therapy. Although it's still bouncing back, the physical therapy industry is poised for huge growth. Thanks, Baby Boomers. Looking at the numbers, one might be discouraged. IBISWorld's predictions show the physical therapy industry might barely grow through the rest of 2011. But the aging Baby Boomer generation is great news for the industry's future: The field will see a big spurt in the next five years as a huge wave of Americans hit retirement age and beyond.
Your physical therapist may choose to apply therapeutic ultrasound to your injured body part as part of your rehabilitation program. Therapeutic ultrasound is a treatment that has been used in physical therapy clinics for over 50 years.