Hello my mom is cancer patient she had alot of pain at two of her finger joints she went to ortho and he prescribed her a gel like voltaren but persisted and she went again to ortho after a month and he prescribed her strong pain killers and recommended that she does physiotherapy. Now onto the PT stuff she did 1 session they used all modalities like laser ultrasound etc but they didn’t tell her to do any movement or anything related and they suggested alot PT sessions and im suspecting they are trying to rip her off.
Sorry to hear about this. Unfortunately it’s really difficult for us to provide specific ideas regarding the diagnosis here. Given that she is having disabling hand symptoms, it may be useful to see an Occupational Therapist instead of this particular PT, and/or to request a different PT who does not use those sorts of modalities.
Hi Austin thanks for the reply so these modalities do not help at all right? I found another PT that atleast he has my mom perform some strengthening exercises/movement along with such modalities and i assume she should see improvement in symptoms in the next 48h.