Physical Therapy vs Imaging Study hits The Washington Post

Research on cost savings of physical therapy versus advanced imaging has been making the news and professional circles, it’s now even making an even more public splash.

On March 27th, The Washington Post publish an article summarizing the findings of research that compared health cost of patients with uncomplicated low back pain who were referred to physical therapy with patients referred for advanced imaging. The results showed that physical therapy typically resulted in dramatically lower subsequent costs than a first referral for original research articles published in the journal Health Services Research.

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