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I fresh began physical therapy for a post-op lower lumbar discectomy (L5-S1). The prototypal physical expert said my condition was much better than they had anticipated (being only digit months ago) and only prescribed one visit per week for four weeks. I have been to digit of the four appointments thusly far. The first, of course, existence an evaluation and whatever streches. The second, was directed by a assorted PT who meet happened to be on pass the preceding week. Both times, I was not offered heat/ice therapy before or after the exercises. I've had preceding PT for a shoulder injury, eld ago, and at a assorted location. I remember existence given heat therapy to start my session, and cover therapy to modify them. Have things changed since then? Is hot/cold therapy only used in certian injuries? Should I politely remind my PT that I have not recieved either forms of therapy? I know that is asking several questions at once, but I am meet peculiar if I should bring this up my next visit, or meet plan on icing it myself when I get home.

Hot packs and cold packs are generally never a requirement, but can be nice adjuncts to treatment. Where they run to rattling be beneficial is in an acute (less than a few weeks old) joint surgery where it is difficult to obtain arrange of change or when arrange of change has the possibleness to cause rousing because of the breaking of symptom tissue. Examples allow rotator shackle surgery or a articulatio replacement. Even when I've utilised it in my patients who are place op articulatio replacement, by the two month mark, I've commonly let it go. A discectomy is, in my opinion, a such assorted story, especially digit that is two month old already. There rattling is little goodness it module have after microdiscectomy. However, I'd study using it in someone who is having great travail regaining their arrange of change (I'd use a heat arrange before treatment) or in someone who has little tolerance for state and they get flared up after PT. The only instance I can think of where I utilised hot or cold after a back surgery is in a enduring who had Lupus (an inflammatory condition) because she was ease in such greater discompose that I would have expected at her point and time. The added abstract to study is that most shelter companies have stopped stipendiary for hot/cold arrange application. Very few patients are willing to foot the calculate for this (charges commonly running between $10-20). At my clinic, we stopped charging for them long ago because the billing caused more of a headache than anything else. Lastly, let's study the evidence, while there is some grounds that hot/cold applications have a beneficial effect in the articulatio and the shoulder, it rattling hasn't been proven for the back . From a clinical experience, I would say that unless there is added underlying medical condition, hot/cold are of very little goodness for this identify of procedure. You can certainly communicate your expert about it, but don't expect your shelter company to pay for it. Most likely, your expert module tell you it's palliative at best (makes you feel good, but does nothing to help the healing process) and there is certainly nothing criminal with doing it. As you suggested, it might meet be worth it to cover at home. Best wishes in your recovery