If you tell Melicent Bussey your back hurts, she’s going to look at your feet. “We keep our shoes for way too long,” she says, and people don’t realize their worn-out shoes are causing back pain. Our team believes Physical Therapy is an investigative process, where we are digging to uncover what will help the issue, not just put a band-aid on it.
Chronic diseases continue to affect patients’ health long after any acute care is done. Just treating these conditions like arthritis and diabetes with medication doesn’t address how they affect the whole body.
– Paul J. Thein, ED.S., Core Health Partners