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Physical Therapy Affects

Introduction

Physical therapy helps the person by giving them more mobility and strengthening the

injured part, also controlling the pain levels. The participant of this experiment had the

following injuries: the participant broke both hips and right femur. They got surgery to

repair the right hip and femur also, and on their left knee, they got surgery to repair

ligament damage to the ACL, MCL, and PCL. This experiment will last six days it will

consist of three days of one-hour physical therapy, and after each day gathers results on

how the participant is feeling and how It affected them while measuring their mobility,

strength, and pain levels. Then it will proceed with 3 days of not doing physical therapy

and after each day gather the results of how the participant felt and how did it affect them

when not doing any activities. This experiment aims to find out how one hour of physical

therapy for an injured person impacts overall mobility, strength, and pain.

Mobility

There was a significant number of results that we got from this experiment on how physical

therapy affected a person who was injured from their hip and knee. When it came to the

three days of doing physical therapy, there was an effect on the participants. Their

mobility increased and improved during those three sessions, which affected them

positively. In session 1 on the first day of the experiment, the participant did one hour of

physical therapy. They did several activities to help mobility on the hips and knee. After

they finished, they asked how they felt and how they think it affected them. They said

that it was tiring and a little challenging to do the exercises but overall felt good and able
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to move around more. In session 2, after the second day of physical therapy, the

participant stated that their mobility increased slightly. Session 3 after the third session of

Physical therapy the subject stated that the mobility of his hips and knees increased. Day

4 on this day of the experiment, the participant did not do any physical therapy and the

results of how the person felt are as follows. They claim that they feel the same they don't

feel any negative things about it and that they feel fine when trying to move around and

don't feel any aches or pains. Day 5 would be the second day of no physical therapy at all.

The claims being made by the subject are as follows. Regarding their mobility, they felt a

difference to the overall movement of their hip and knee saying it felt stiffer than usual.

Day 6 on the third day of no physical therapy, the participant claimed that they felt many

differences to their body. As in their mobility to their knee they felt it stiff and had a

decrease in mobility. They also felt stiffer and less mobility on their hip.

The results show that physical therapy does help increase mobility and is an excellent overall

factor in the recovery process of the individual used for this study. As for, the part of the

experiment where there was no physical therapy for three days the results were as

follows. The first day they noticed no difference in mobility and they felt fine. The

following days that’s when they started to feel different, and they noticed adverse effects

on their injured areas they felt stiffness in their mobility and could not move around

much because of the lack of physical therapy, therefore showing that physical therapy

does indeed help mobility.

Strength
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We got several results from this experiment on how physical therapy affected a person

injured from their hip and knee and how it affected strength. In session 1 on the first day

of the experiment, the participant did one hour of physical therapy. They did several

activities to help strengthen on the hips and knee. In session 2, after the second day of

physical therapy, the participant stated that their strength increased a little bit, Session 3

after the third session of Physical therapy, the subject stated that the strength of his knee

was increased but not their hip. Day 4 on this day of the experiment, the participant didn't

do any physical therapy and the results of how the person felt are as follows. They claim

that they feel the same they don't feel any negative things about it and that they feel fine

when trying to move around and don't feel any aches or pains. Day 5 would be the second

day of no physical therapy at all. The claims being made by the subject are as follows. As

for the strength, they didn't notice any changes to the hip or knee. Day 6 on the third day

of no physical therapy, the participant claimed that they felt a lot of differences to their

body as well as for strength they didn't notice any effects to their knee or hip.

Physical therapy's effects on strength during this experiment were affected positive. With the

help of therapy, the subject was able to increase in strength within three days. Over time

it helped strengthen the injured areas such as the hip and knee that was looked at in this

experiment. The part of the experiment where there was no therapy used for three days

had no effects on the participant, they didn’t feel any differences towards their injuries

and only noticed positive outcomes towards physical therapy sessions. The results show

that physical therapy does help improve strength and even when not doing therapy, it

didn't make any effects.

Pain
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Pain was one of the variables on this experiment that showed a big difference on how

physical therapy helps control pain to the injured areas. In session 1 on the first day of the

experiment, the participant did one hour of physical therapy. They did several activities

to help mobility on the hips and knee and strengthen them. After they were finished, I

asked how they felt and how they think it affected them. They complained about aches

and pains when exercising in the affected areas. Once they were thirty minutes into the

session, they mentioned that the aches and pains were a lot less. In session 2, after the

second day of physical therapy the participant stated that and the pain was less before

starting the therapy and the pain decreased ultimately after the session was done. Session

3 after the third session of Physical therapy the subject stated that the pain levels

decreased substantially. Day 4 on this day of the experiment, the participant didn't do any

physical therapy and the results of how the person felt are as follows. They claim that

they feel the same they don't feel any negative things about it and that they feel fine when

trying to move around and don't feel any aches or pains. Day 5 would be the second day

of no physical therapy at all. The claims being made by the subject are as follows: they

noticed a slight increase in pain levels for the pain levels, but it was only periodically

when they would move around. On day six on the third day of no physical therapy, the

participant claimed that they felt a lot of differences to their body. When it comes to pain,

they also mentioned that it increased so they felt more pain when trying to move around

toward their knee and hip.

Pain and physical therapy during this experiment, they tested pain levels after physical

therapy sessions. During the study, the subject relayed positive result that happened pain

levels decreased with more sessions of therapy they felt better and had less pain when
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trying to move around. Then we proceeded with the experiment and started no therapy

for three days. The first day they didn't notice any effects, but as the days increased, the

pain levels started to increase and it became more complicated for the participants to

move around. Overall, with therapy, the pain levels decreased so the results showed that

physical therapy does help and is effective.

Conclusion

This study yielded positive results regarding how physical therapy for one hour affects an

injured person. In detail, it rendered that physical therapy for one hour does help improve

mobility, strength, and pain making the recovery process a lot easier and more effective.

Also, in the study it yielded that no physical therapy has some adverse effects towards

mobility and pain as in there mobility became less and their pain levels increased as for

the strength the results were the same. They didn't increase or decrease. Overall, this

experiment had some positive and negative results regarding mobility, strength, and pain.

Concluding that therapy is an essential factor and does help recover from injuries more

successfully.

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