AMA CPT® Assistant - 2019 Issue 6 (June)
Medicine: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Q&A) (June 2019)
June 2019 page 15 Medicine: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Question: A flexion/distraction table is used by the provider (one-on-one) to increase a patient's range of motion (ROM) and flexibility while lowering the intrathecal pressure of the intervertebral disc for at least 8 minutes of face-to-face time. To achieve this, the patient's ankles are strapped to the table, the table is then distracted, and, depending on the specific deficits identified during ROM tests, the patient is either placed passively into flexion or extension, with lateral flexion to the right or left, or rotation to the left or right, or a...
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