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IMAGE: Anne Swisher--a professor with the WVU Division of Physical Therapy--works with a patient. Swisher and her colleagues enhanced WVU's physical therapy instruction to emphasize the profession's role in addressing opioid...
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Credit: Aira Burkhart/West Virginia University
When you think of ways to treat opioid use disorder, you might think methadone clinics and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. You probably don't imagine stretches and strengthening exercises.
But Anne Swisher--professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine--is working to address opioid misuse in an unconventional way: through physical therapy. She and her colleagues have enhanced physical therapy instruction at WVU to emphasize the profession's role in preventing and treating opioid use disorder.