Lyndzie Jackson, PT, talks about how the group has integrated physical therapy into its approach.
By Jenny Diedrich
An Arizona-based outpatient treatment system, Recovia, is seeing great success with an innovative way to help patients with opioid addiction. Recovia’s integrated approach focuses on physical therapy as one of its main treatment methods to address prescription medication dependency, misuse of other substances and chronic pain.
Lyndzie Jackson, PT, director of physical therapy at Recovia, believes physical therapy is the future of substance use disorder treatment, especially for opioid addiction related to chronic pain. “As far as I’m aware, I believe [Recovia is] the only company in the nation doing this,” Jackson says. “It needs to be something that’s done, but it’s not quite gotten there yet. It’s difficult to figure out how to make a program like this work and function. There are so many moving parts.”
TreatmentMagazine.com recently talked with Jackson about Recovia’s treatment model and how physical therapy is used as part of the organization’s comprehensive and distinctive approach.
