How To Find a Specialist Physical Therapist
Not all physical therapists are the same. I don’t just mean in personality, either. I am talking about in their specialty skills. Just like you would not go to a cardiologist for an ankle sprain, you would not go to an orthopedic physical therapist after surviving a stroke or being diagnosed with Parkinson’s or Multiple Sclerosis. Perhaps this is not wide-spread knowledge yet, but there are physical therapists that specialize in treating people with neurologic deficits. Neurologic specialist physical therapists help clients recover from anything from peripheral nerve injuries to severe damage to the brain and/or spinal cord. Examples of common diagnoses that would be included are stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, amputation, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, brain and/or spinal cord tumors, and dystonia. So how do you find the right PT?? A certified neurologic physical therapist will have the initials “NC