While it is common to think that once physical therapy is complete, you are completely healed, this is, in fact, not the case. Depending on your injury, you might have to do frequent check-ups with your orthopedic physician to ensure that nothing new has come up or to monitor your condition and ensure that you are healing well with no long-term conditions. As well as frequent monitoring, physical therapists could assign you with at-home exercises to perform to make sure that your body continues to heal once your sessions are over. They will also assign these exercises in order to help prevent future injuries from occurring in these areas.