Physical therapy combines active treatment such as therapeutic exercise and manual therapy with passive modalities including heat, ultrasound, and electrical stimulation. Sessions are documented with objective measurements and progress toward goals.
Treatment is provided under a physician referral in most settings.
Alternative Names:
PT, Rehabilitation Therapy
Why it Matters?
Therapy notes are among the most useful records in injury litigation because they document objective measurements at every visit: range of motion, strength grades, and functional capacity. That produces a trajectory showing whether the claimant improved, and a documented return to normal measurements contradicts later claims of permanent limitation. Extended courses of passive modalities without active progression are the recurring reasonableness issue.
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Why are therapy notes valuable?
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