“How long does it take for physical therapy to show impact in someone suffering from facet hypertrophy?”

Your prognosis depends on the severity of your diagnosis and symptoms. For example do you have any nerve related pain or symptoms? That would indicate a higher severity. Additionally, your core strength and compliance with your given home exercise program. For my patients, if I don’t see any changes within 8-10 visits at a rate of 2-3 times per week I’ll refer them back to their physician based on their presentation. Based on your age, no change at 4 visits with good compliance with the prescribed home program I will typically alter a few aspects of my treatment plan and discuss it/ explain the reasoning with you.

Your progress depends on what modalities the therapist is using for fixing your facet hypertrophy. While taking treatment, try to take more turmeric pills to help with decreasing inflammation. It might help you get better soon.
Best wishes for your speedy recovery.

Dr. Ramky Kavaserry, DPT

It depends on so many factors. Your physical therapist should be able to advice you about your goals and expectations.

It's possible that you may achieve some pain relief on the same day as your treatment. However, it usually takes 2-4 weeks before you can make a quality decision about the overall effectiveness of your PT treatments.

It depends on the type of physical therapy that you are experiencing. As a manual based therapist, it is imperative to me that my patients walk out of my office with some improvement in pain that same day.