If you have back pain, a sports injury, or mobility issues, you might wonder, should I see a physical therapist or a chiropractor? Both professionals aim to improve your health, but they use different approaches.
Let’s break it down:
When to See a Physical Therapist (PT)
- Goal: Improve movement, strength, and flexibility over time.
- Approach: Combines hands-on techniques (dry needling, scraping, cupping) with stretching and strengthening exercises to calm down acute pain and improve movement patterns to keep pain from returning..
When to See a Chiropractor
- Goal: Reduce pain, improve nervous system performance.
- Approach: Uses spinal adjustments and manipulations to improve joint mobility and reduce muscle tension.
Can You See Both?
Absolutely. Both professions bring a different set of tools to helping you hurt less and move better. If a professional athlete uses a variety of medical professionals to keep their body performing as well as possible, that same approach would certainly benefit the rest of us. Get Right Physical Therapy has worked with multiple chiropractors in Carmel, Zionsville, and Fishers, and believes the best approach is the team approach!
Let Get Right Help Physical Therapy Help You Recover
Whether you are seeing a chiropractor and interested in trying physical therapy, or just aren’t sure where to begin in your long-term plan pain relief and rehab plan, contact Get Right Physical Therapy to get started.