Health Blog Category: Physical Therapy
Have You Sustained a Sprain or Strain to Your Ankle? Get Back on Your Feet with Physical Therapy
Ready to Move with Ease Once Again?
If you’re having ankle pain that isn’t going away, there’s a significant chance that you’ve suffered from a strain or a sprain! People sometimes use these two terms interchangeably, but there is actually a big distinction between them.
A strain is the tear or overstretching of a muscle or tendon. These tendons connect the bones to the muscles. Your lower back and hamstrings are the most popular area of strains.
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You Can Do A Lot for Yourself by Participating in PT Both Before and After Surgery!
Surgery can be very painful and traumatic for the body to go through, so it’s typically only performed when there are simply no other choices available. If surgery is in the immediate future, you might have already addressed a post-operative physical therapy appointment with your doctor. It is incredibly normal (and highly recommended!) to see a physical therapist during rehabilitation.
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Speed Up Your Recovery with Both Pre- and Post-Surgical Rehab!
According to the American Physical Therapy Association, there are proven benefits to both pre-surgical rehabilitation AND post-surgical rehabilitation. Pre and post-surgical rehab is often recommended for those having orthopedic surgery. These types of surgeries could include foot, ankle, knee, hip, wrist, hand, shoulder, neck, and spine surgeries.
Rehab can, however, be beneficial for just about any type of surgical procedure.
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Tired of Living with Headaches? We can Help
Are you living with the daily aches and pains of a chronic headache? If so, you are not alone.
A one-off headache encounter can be distressing enough, but frequent or constant headache pain can completely disable you.
The term “sick headache” might have been coined to describe exactly how you feel today – and every day.
Many of these headaches have underlying musculoskeletal or biochemical causes – which means that they can be corrected through the right forms of treatment.
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Living with Daily Chronic Pains? Physical Therapy Can Help You Find Relief
If you’re living with daily aches and pains, we know how difficult it can be. As you may have already learned the hard way, chronic pain can hurt more than just your body.
Conditions that limit your mobility and prevent you from pursuing your favorite activities can make you feel a gut-wrenching loss of control over your own life.
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Painful Mornings Can Be Relieved with the Help of Physical Therapy
Morning aches and pains can make it difficult to complete even the simplest tasks, like getting up out of bed or putting on your shoes.
There are few things worse than waking up in the morning to chronic pain in your neck, back, or joints, and it is something that many people experience.
But with the help of a few physical therapist approved stretches, you can begin to work certain areas of the body in the AM to help relieve pain and discomfort.
Read full blogStruggling with chronic joint pain? Find out how physical therapy can help relieve your aches and pains.
Chronic joint pain can be an issue that plagues you weeks and even months. It’s something everyone dreads and when it comes, we often have no clue how to deal with it.
Joints are the structures that form the connections between the bones. Joints provide assistance and support in movement. There are a wide variety of different conditions that can cause chronic joint pain, among them are bursitis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, sprains, and strains.
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Looking to Stay Healthy for Life? Start by Staying Active!
“You’re only as young as you feel,” or at least that’s how the saying goes.
However, it’s likely more accurate to say that you’re only as young as your health allows you to be. When you see elderly people shuffling along on walkers or refusing to leave their favorite chair, you might assume that you could face the same scenario in your old age.
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So many people think of physical therapy as something to turn to after sustaining a severe injury or a car accident. And sure, while there are plenty of times that physical therapy will be recommended in those instances, this isn’t the only use for this incredibly helpful therapy method.
Physical therapy treatments are designed to help the body function at its peak, and that often means using the core PT strategies like exercise, muscle training, and targeted massage to do so, as well as adjustment and at times even acupuncture, to address whatever the primary cause of the pain may be—including headaches.
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Tired Of Relying On Prescription Painkillers And Medication To Control Your Pain! Ask Your Doctor About Physical Therapy!
Our bodies are incredible machines. We all know that they have the ability to heal and repair themselves, but they can also adapt to nearly any situation. That includes the types of things we put into them. This can include supplements, food, and medications.
Temporarily taking medicine to control your pain as you recover from an injury or surgery can be a viable part of your treatment plan.
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