October marks National Physical Therapy month, which draws awareness to the ever important field of physical therapy. Physical therapy is the treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by physical methods such as massage, heat treatment, and exercise rather than by drugs or surgery. In the United States every year, about 500,000 people undergo surgery for lower back pain alone. On average when a diagnosis is reviewed, 88% of initial diagnoses are changed or revised. As a common alternative, physical therapy can save a person from having to undergo unnecessary and expensive surgery.

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