Posted By: roma Help me choose PT - 06-10-2011 03:54 PM
Hi All

Please advice how to select a good physio therapist. I mean what questions to ask or how do we get know if the PT has done work on patients who have had radiation.
As we are adviced to look for a PT. All the places we went to none of them had experience dealing with such cases.

Kindly advice what should I ask in order to proceed.

Thanks

Roma
Posted By: Cheryld Re: Help me choose PT - 06-11-2011 03:14 AM
Hey again. I answered this for you in another posting in this forum, but I'll repeat it. Physio is physio. You want a good physio therapist, but they dont particularly have to be experienced with radiation/ chemo patients. They study the muscles of the body, they know how to work towards getting a body back to where it was before surgery etc. Tell them what his mobility issues are - they will design a plan.

Good luck.
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