How many sessions of physical therapy per week is common in Japan under NHI?

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1. After getting out of the hospital from surgery 1x per week was normal for me for both my broken wrist and torn rotator cuff.

2. I got physical therapy before and after a minor back surgery, limited to once a week. They cut me off after a year in total of weekly sessions. On a sidenote, they had no idea what they were doing.

3. Physical therapy is meant to ***teach*** you the exercises **you** are supposed to do *at home* on a *daily* basis (could even be hourly, or *X* times a day, etc).

   Yes, all the bold/italics are there on purpose: **don’t** be like most idiots in PT and fail to do the exercises at home. Also, if an exercise takes special equipment/machine and they don’t provide one to you, then you’re not expected to do *that one* at home.

   Good luck on your recovery!

4. who are these morons downvoting every post, even perfectly normal questions like this one, in this sub? losers, get a life

5. Back when I went to clinics covered by Japanese NHI, 2-3 times a week was what I kept getting prescribed. Came in for headaches, lightheadedness, pain running down arms, jaw pain. Was told I had nothing but tech neck and rounded shoulders (aka poor posture) and for some reason it was symptomatic.

   I wasn’t very happy with any of them, if you can tell. Never found any kind of improvement even though I was super diligent, came in every time, went for several months, actively gave feedback each time. Switched clinics, same issue. Fast forward a year, I go to a private English-speaking clinic now and have actually seen very slow but steady improvement after a year of extreme pain and dizziness. My wallet hurts but at least I’m finally getting better.