Soft Tissue Therapy: FALSE. If someone is using crutches, you should also treat their shoulder girdle, neck and arms, as well as their injured areas (and corresponding structures). This is to alleviate the stress it causes on these upper areas, and prevent injury, as they are now carrying weight they are not meant to. Insurance has nothing to do with it.

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FALSE. If someone is using crutches, you should also treat their shoulder girdle, neck and arms, as well as their injured areas (and corresponding structures). This is to alleviate the stress it causes on these upper areas, and prevent injury, as they are now carrying weight they are not meant to. Insurance has nothing to do with it.

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True or False: if someone is using crutches due to a lower-limb injury, and they are an insurance patient, you do not treat their shoulder girdle, neck and arms.

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True or False: if someone is using crutches due to a lower-limb injury, and they are an insurance patient, you do not treat their shoulder girdle, neck and arms.

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