Physical Therapy’s Role in OUD Treatment: Reducing the need for Opioid Analgesia

Abstract

The prescribing of Opioids for the treatment of pain has been a mainstay of practice for hundreds of years. More recently, since the 1990s, nonmedical use of opioid medication has been recognized and has been deemed problematic contributing to the current Opioid Epidemic the US faces and grapples with today. Opioid prescribing has increased more than four fold since the 1900s [1].